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   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.”   
      
   https://sports.yahoo.com/oklahoma-lawmaker-threatens-tax-   
   penalties-for-thunder-if-players-kneel-during-anthem-   
   031146336.html   
      
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