“First of all, condemning antisemitism is important,” CJ McCollum, Head of the Players Union, said. “I believe in social justice, not just for Black people but for everyone. This is a social justice issue.”
by Danny886
@National Basketball Association
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Love CJ
This is not even based. This should be the standard. Shoutout CJ
Extremely common CJ McCollum W
What a good cunt, can’t help but love this guy and wish him success
This is also what Irving’s teammates should be telling him
CJ went to school to play school. It shows.
i really wish NBA media would spend more time talking about basketball. i’m not saying don’t condemn and scrutinize kyrie and anthony edwards and people like them, but it just feels like there’s so much emphasis on trying to shape pro athletes as these all-knowing beings just because they have daily press conferences. there’s like some really great basketball being played, and all anyone ever talks about is how crazy kyrie is, how soft ben simmons is.. the jazz are like 7-3 and a fantastic story, but no, what’s wstbrook gonna do next? maybe i’m expecting too much lol
LeBron opened the floodgates just like he did with Sarver
In good hands with CJ.
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The virtue signaling never sleeps I see.
Very likable Pels team
CJ has had so many conversations with Tamika Tremaglio (aka, the NBPA’s lead lawyer) about their “VP problem”. It’s not an easy solve: unions aren’t designed to handle a willful arsonist.
I like how this is phrased like McCollum is **ELI5**. “First of all…” Unfortunately, a lot of his audience (read: dumb players) need to be spoken to like they have the comprehension of a five-year old (looking your way Kyle Kuzma).
CJ McCollum is a smart dude in an unwinnable situation: convincing the union membership that VP Gelatinous Ignorance isn’t who they should be listening to and then trying to educate a bunch of dudes with high-school diplomas and a sense of entitlement the size of MSG that they need to learn a new thing.
I’d rather take charges from Zion in practice for a month.
“The important part is he did apologise”
“He’s displayed empathy now”
ARE YOU KIDDING ME??
Were you waiting this long to speak up so that he can apologise and you can take a neutral stand – both denounce antisemitism and not bash him?It is a learning experinece but he doubled down on his views. And none of you spoke up. Making up excuses for him like “i don’t think he actually watched the movie” is ridiculous.
I wonder if Sarver has to go through extensive training on his racist shit too
I feel like CJ is underrated as one of the most likable NBA players. I still remember back to his first PMT interview where he seemed unprepared for what the interview was actually going to be but played along and ended up being hysterical. Just a great dude all around, charismatic, humble, respectful, and a pretty damn good player.
>I believe in social justice, not just for Black people but for everyone. This is a social justice issue
Love this line so much from CJ.
It’s hilarious how everyone is telling on themselves for not reading this one lol
Legitimately so easy to say something that condemns anti-semitism. Happy to see another player not come out as an utter disappointment
And there are the words that needed to be said. Glad to hear them from him, absolute class act.
Did nobody read the article?? Why are you praising CJ for this?
“He’s displayed empathy now. I think this is a learning experience in which I don’t think he understood the magnitude of the movie because he didn’t watch it. I don’t think he understood the magnitude of the people that were affected, how they were impacted and how fast hate can spread and how this can snowball.”
Sounds like he’s making excuses for Kyrie, well after the fact, including completely making up that Kyrie didn’t watch the movie… wtf? Kyrie had plenty of chances to understand the magnitude of the impact before he apologized, which only came after there were real consequences to him.
> “It’s safe to say that we know that Kyrie and all of us — me specifically, I can speak for myself — specifically condemn antisemitism in any form,” McCollum said. “I am specifically against it. I specifically believe in promoting equality, diversity of inclusion.”
It’s not that hard to be unequivocal about a position. Seems like CJ is trying to set a literal example here. Good guy, good leader.
It be your own vice presidents
It’s really not that hard to say this. Idk why Ky can’t have the same self-awareness
Why only now? You should said it right after
CJ is just an all around good dude. I always take him in fantasy basketball when he’s available, still a good player.
If Kyrie had been racist towards black people, he would have already been banned from the league.
As he was racist against jews, many people pretend they didn’t see it.
Fortunately someone came out of the shell.