The latest politically correct delusion: NBA accused of racism. Barkley (former champion, black): “bullshit”
For the New York Times and other (de) thinker purposes, the NBA (like the NFL ) would have a diversity problem. That is, translating from nonlingua politically correct, a problem of racism. If we really wanted to adopt the hallucinated and discriminatory point of view of those who raised the controversy, that there are ethnic-chromatic disparities in American professional basketball is undeniable: black players are in fact 80 percent of the total, compared to a incidence of not even 13 percent of the entire population. So are blacks over-represented? So are whites penalized? No. For the Times (but also, for example, for Espn's black analyst Stephen A. Smith, who spoke of white privilege ) the problem is that the Brooklyn Nets have hired a white as coach, rather than confirm the coach interim black (who, however, after temporarily replacing a sacked white, was retained in the role of first assistant coach, the one for which he was hired, becoming the highest paid assistant coach in the league).
For the Times and others it doesn't matter that the coach hired is Steve Nash, one of the greatest and most charismatic and tactical players in history despite an absolutely normal physique (which means that his basketball skills were almost exclusively technical, strategic and mental, which means he will probably be a great coach). It doesn't matter that Nash had been courted in vain for some time and that the fact that he was persuaded to sit on the bench represents a colossal blow. It doesn't matter that Nash has such a reputation that he is one of the few who can immediately gain respect and attention from the greatest active champions (two of which, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, are in the Nets ). The only thing that matters to the Times and others is that a white man has been hired. For the Times , which has taken the trouble to describe all active coaches in Lombrosian terms on the basis of their appearance, color and ancestry, the problem is that white coaches would be in the (slight) majority. The Times mentions en passant the figure of 80 percent of black players (a percentage similar to that in the NFL , about which the newspaper had raised the same controversy over white coaches in recent weeks), without realizing that that figure would be enough to trash the piece of "denunciation" to any editor worthy of the name, because that data refutes that American sport has a problem of racism (indeed, eventually it would raise the problem of racism towards whites, imagining – which we should look at well from doing – to embrace the belittling and discriminatory point of view of the alleged regressive "progressive" anti-racism). Nothing to do, however.
The NBA is so racist that it has fifteen black players among the top fifteen highest paid players. The NBA is so racist that it allowed the completely hegemonic African American players to stop the playoffs , the crucial part of the championship just resumed, after the case of the black man injured by a policeman during an eventful arrest in Wisconsin. The NBA is so racist that it allows (or rather, "suggests") all teams to kneel in "Black Lives Matter" jerseys before matches. The NBA is so racist that they have replaced player names on their shirts with anti-racism slogans.
The NBA, due to Covid , is playing its games in a "bubble" with no external contact in Florida, but it seems more like the Times and its brothers to be closed in a bubble with no contact with reality. , who ignore or pretend to ignore that NBA fans not only don't consider a player's skin color, they don't even see it. NBA fans only see how strong a player is and how talented he is, or how poor he is. Similarly, no team (for now, because at this rate it could end up being forced by the "right-thinking") chooses or would have reason to choose a coach based on racial profiling, no team would give up a good coach just because he is black or he would hire a less good one just because he is white. The truth is that clubs hire the players (mostly black) and coaches they think are best (some whites and some blacks) without any other deviant considerations.
To reject the accusations made by Stephen A. Smith (who, like the Times , cited Nash's lack of experience on the bench as "proof", arguing that a brother would never be allowed to directly become head coach) thought the former champion and current analyst Charles Barkley (a black, it must be specified): “I was very disappointed – Barkley told Inside the Nba on TNT – by the fact that some have talked about white privilege . Very disappointed. They say things like that don't happen to blacks. But it happened to Doc Rivers. It happened to Jason Kidd. It happened to Derek Fisher ”. Of the sixteen coaches who joined the NBA from 1978-79 without having had any previous experience, nine were black. “When you have a responsibility – added the former basketball player – especially when you have to talk about something serious like race, you can't talk bullshit. You have to be honest and fair ”.
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