Thunder niggers all kneel during national anthem after threat from Oklahoma lawmaker

Turn off your TV sets.

Take the advertising revenue away from these ignorant niggers.

Oklahoma City Thunder players did not heed a lawmaker’s threat 
about kneeling during the national anthem.

All the Thunder players knelt on Saturday alongside Utah Jazz 
players during their NBA bubble debut.


Jazz and Thunder all kneel for the national anthem. One referee 
remains standing. pic.twitter.com/hFMoq9hVNl

— Eric Walden (@tribjazz) August 1, 2020
The social justice protest arrived a day after an Oklahoma state 
lawmaker attempted to pressure Thunder players to his will.

Rep. Sean Roberts (R-Hominy) issued a warning to the Thunder on 
Friday threatening to pull tax breaks for the team if players 
kneel during the national anthem while citing conspiracy 
theories about “Marxism.”

Since bubble play started Thursday, players have largely knelt 
during the national anthem to protest police brutality and 
racial injustice.

Roberts floats ‘significant tax benefits’
“If the Oklahoma City Thunder leadership and players follow the 
current trend of the NBA by kneeling during the national anthem 
prior to Saturday’s game, perhaps we need to reexamine the 
significant tax benefits the State of Oklahoma granted the 
Oklahoma City Thunder organization when they came to Oklahoma,” 
Roberts wrote in a statement.

Oklahoma News 4 reached out to the Thunder for a response to 
Roberts’ threat. As of Friday evening, the Thunder had not 
responded.

Thunder guard Chris Paul is the president of the National 
Basketball Players Association. He helped negotiate a deal with 
the NBA to allow players to wear social justice messaging on 
their uniforms during bubble play.

It was a long shot that Paul or any other Thunder players 
wouldn’t take a knee. Miami Heat forward Meyers Leonard and 
Orlando Magic forward Jonathan Isaac were the only players to 
decline to take a knee in the bubble through Saturday afternoon. 
San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich and assistant Becky 
Hammon also declined to take a knee on Friday.

Players have made a point to use their platforms to explain that 
as Black men, they fear for their lives and safety in the United 
States because of their skin color. Utah Jazz guard Donovan 
Mitchell carried a bulletproof vest emblazoned with a list of 
victims of police brutality to his news conference Thursday 
night to make his point.

The NBA has a rule on its books requiring players to stand for 
the anthem. Commissioner Adam Silver vowed on Thursday not to 
enforce it “under these unique circumstances.”

Roberts: Kneeling will destroy families
Roberts believes the demonstration intends to destroy nuclear 
families.

“By kneeling during the playing of the national anthem, the NBA 
and its players are showing disrespect to the American flag and 
all it stands for,” Roberts wrote. “This anti-patriotic act 
makes clear the NBA’s support of the Black Lives Matter group 
and its goal of defunding our nation’s police, its ties to 
Marxism and its efforts to destroy nuclear families.”

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