It’s a start.”. @NBA and Houston Rockets he needs to GO!!! Newspapers Limited, One Yonge Street, 4th floor, Toronto, ON, M5E 1E6. The Daily Wire is one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. While the NBA should be commended for their commitment to furthering racial justice with the Disney restart, not everyone on the Boston Celtics and the other 29 teams in the league feel it goes far enough. Copyright owned or licensed by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited. Several years ago, it was used as a rallying cry by activists advocating on behalf of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada and later by advocates for murdered women in South Africa. The Daily Wire is one of America’s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. The ESPN analyst went on to give a concrete example of the difference between symbolic change and structural change — and a poignant one at that, given the inaction of the league to weigh in on structural changes (at least yet) in ways they have for other minorities. Hawley, who wrote to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver asking him to allow pro-military, pro-police messages after allowing other political slogans in the wake of protests and riots over the death of a Black man in Minneapolis on Memorial Day, decried the latest revelation. People want to say, ‘Oh, that’s all you’re doing?’ That’s the light … Millions of people are going to be watching these games and it’s going to be a reminder to the millions of people that are watching the game, so I’m with it 100%. It’s the influence. But any effective protest for social change is bound to ruffle a few feathers, whether it is seeing “Am I Next” on the back of Norm Powell’s jersey or watching Colin Kaepernick taking a knee. , online retailer Amazon recently removed a line of clothing for sale on its website for featuring a similar campaign-looking logo that references Harris in a derogatory manner. Hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers fearing persecution leave their homes and countries every year after asking themselves that same question – Am I Next? Twenty-nine personal statements or slogans were approved by the league such as, “Black Lives Matter, Say Their Names, Peace, Equality, Freedom, etc.” Norm Powell suggested his own statement that was not one of the 29 sanctioned: “Am I Next?” The NBA said no. "You want to play every possession like it's the last possession of the game," suggested Celtics head coach Brad Stevens at the team's pregame presser when asked if the team should be playing with an air of desperation. I should not have been so insensitive to post the statements by others. When the NBA negotiated the soon-to-start season with its players union, the agreement allowed players to replace the name on their jerseys with a personal statement on issues of racism and discrimination. There is nothing wrong with the list of slogans sanctioned by the NBA; they all reflect universal truths.