2 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

If the Magic didn’t agree to boycott as well the Bucks gave up a playoff game. It’s certainly not nothing. 

The way I read it is they didn't accept the forfeit meaning they are also boycotting.

I am not an African American and can not know what their experience is like. But having to go through slavery, segregation, police brutality etc. has inflicted damage to that community for generations. If we are to preach liberty and justice for all, we must be willing to listen to others when they make their voices loud for all to hear. 

Black lives matter. Love and peace to all peoples.

1 minute ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The way I read it is they didn't accept the forfeit meaning they are also boycotting.

Exactly how i read it. So eventually they are playing game 5 so it’s more of a postponement to a later date. If you wanna really make a statement boycott the rest of the playoffs and don’t play them. I’m fine with them doing that. However boycotting for a day then still playing game 5 in a day or two or three in my book is called a postponement. 

4 minutes ago, IggleWalt said:

SOME people. Just like you want to turn innocent victims into criminals.

 

4 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

The way I read it is they didn't accept the forfeit meaning they are also boycotting.

Ahh. The tweet I saw was oddly worded. 

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Exactly how i read it. So eventually they are playing game 5 so it’s more of a postponement to a later date. If you wanna really make a statement boycott the rest of the playoffs and don’t play them. I’m fine with them doing that. However boycotting for a day then still playing game 5 in a day or two or three in my book is called a postponement. 

There are degrees of statements. It’s like the people who complain about millionaires donating $100,000 to a cause. People could almost always do more...

Brandon Beane Buffalo GM from SB Nation:

For starters, a lot has been made about the ability to "protect” players from being signed off the practice squad. Beane indicated that list begins on Tuesday at 4 PM Eastern of a given week. It’s not a seven-day protection where you can keep other teams’ hands off your players indefinitely.

"Those four protective players are [made] on Tuesdays at four o’clock each week,” said Beane. "So it’ll be kind of free access to poach prior to Tuesday at four after games are played. Your entire 16 would be able to be poached. And then on Tuesdays at four, we’ll be able to designate four guys that we have for the week.”

The players you can protect can change from week to week, but keeping four protected practice squad players plus the 53-man roster theoretically gives teams 57 guys to choose from they know can’t be signed to another team. If they’re thin at a position on the active roster, they can make sure they’re covered with a protected player on Tuesday in case they need to elevate a practice squad player(s) on Friday.

Beane elaborated, saying that signing a player from another team’s practice squad or even a street free agent to play in that same week is going to be difficult in 2020. You’re going to see a lot of practice squad elevations because of the testing window.

"Here’s the thing that makes it tricky [signing a guy off the practice squad on a Tuesday],” said Beane. "If we went to go get someone off a practice squad, as the rules are right now obviously things can change, but that’s going to be a five-day entry to get them in our building. So, you claim a guy on Monday, he’s mostly going to be virtually meeting with you until the end of the week. So he may not have a live practice with your team that week. Just as it stands now, just to get them in the building. It’s like a re-entry whether it’s a free agent, whatever. It’s that test day one, test day two, off day three, test day four. So all of those are going to have to [have] negative tests before they can enter our facility.”

And, as Beane explained it, even if they’ve been negative repeatedly at their former team’s facility, the clock restarts at the new team facility.

"Yeah, it makes it really tough,” admitted Beane.

Sp the practice squad is going to be more important than ever in 2020. Six players can have an unlimited number of accrued seasons, which means you can stash veterans on your practice squad if they aren’t claimed elsewhere

9 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

There are degrees of statements. It’s like the people who complain about millionaires donating $100,000 to a cause. People could almost always do more...

Eh i never complain about anyone donating money to causes. Frankly who am i to tell people how to spend their money. 

But reality is they wouldn’t completely boycott and not have those game 5’s cause it’s money out of the nba/players own pockets and it would upset teams who believe they would get shafted in advancing in the playoffs. not hence why i called it a postponement. That’s more of my issue. It would have much more long lasting meaning if you just never played those games. To me most people in 2-3 weeks based on society will not even care and move on from the "boycott”.  Not saying that’s right but that’s how it tends to work. 

27 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

I really dont grasp what they think that will accomplish

I think they're highly frustrated and angered by another incidence of police violence.  They want to do something.  

27 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Cultural change must come from within a community. 
 

perhaps "the talk” should be about school and not having kids and dont be a criminal

Perhaps white families need to talk about racial bias and not being racist.  I know it's a conversation I have with my kids and my parents had with me.  

2 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Eh i never complain about anyone donating money to causes. Frankly who am i to tell people how to spend their money. 

But reality is they wouldn’t completely boycott and not have those game 5’s cause it’s money out of the nba/players own pockets and it would upset teams who believe they would get shafted in advancing in the playoffs. not hence why i called it a postponement. That’s more of my issue. It would have much more long lasting meaning if you just never played those games. To me most people in 2-3 weeks based on society will not even care and move on from the "boycott”.  Not saying that’s right but that’s how it tends to work. 

Regardless they’re bringing a lot of attention to the issue. Apparently the Bucks players are in the locker room trying to speak to the Wisconsin Attorney General. 

38 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

I really dont grasp what they think that will accomplish

3 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

I think they're highly frustrated and angered by another incidence of police violence.  They want to do something.  

 

1 hour ago, ManuManu said:

 

I don't have any trust in ESP's stat keeping or analytical ability.  

32 minutes ago, ToastJenkins said:

Cultural change must come from within a community. 
 

perhaps "the talk” should be about school and not having kids and dont be a criminal

Not sure not having kids is going to decrease violent crime, though if there were no people than no violent crime i guess😉

If it were as easy telling a kid not to be a criminal my 3 year old daughters wall wouldnt be covered in crayon and permanent marker😠😉

 

32 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

 

So does it make the record a tie?(I don't know anything about NBA)

1 minute ago, Mike030270 said:

So does it make the record a tie?(I don't know anything about NBA)

Nope. Games are postponed. 

8 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Regardless they’re bringing a lot of attention to the issue. Apparently the Bucks players are in the locker room trying to speak to the Wisconsin Attorney General. 

Commendable. Not saying they didn’t bring it to light. I still view it as a postponement then a boycott. If I’m boycotting nike for child labor laws in China i don’t get to 2 days later go buy a pair of nikes. Kind defeats the purpose of my boycott. You do the boycott til there’s a change. 

41 minutes ago, Iggles_Phan said:

My assistant pastor explained how he had that talk with his two sons.  It was illuminating to me.  That said, when I started driving, my dad had a similar yet different talk with me about how to talk to the police when pulled over.

and you have people like this murderer out there too:

 

This was taken before he murdered people.  The police did nothing to stop him. 

Lots of draft picks aren’t even lasting on 80 man rosters. 

36 minutes ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Just in general maybe we stop putting athletes on pedestals and start putting people like Myron rolle  and tardif who gave all that up to actually do something to make a change in the world. 

Nonsense. This is no time for maturity

1 minute ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

Commendable. Not saying they didn’t bring it to light. I still view it as a postponement then a boycott. If I’m boycotting child labor laws in China with Nike i don’t get to 2 days later go buy a pair of nikes. Kind defeats the purpose of my boycott. You do the boycott til there’s a change. 

I don’t really care at all about a semantics argument. It was a forced postponement due to protest. Call it whatever you want. 

 

 

8 minutes ago, NCiggles said:

Perhaps white families need to talk about racial bias and not being racist.  I know it's a conversation I have with my kids and my parents had with me.  

We had this talk with my son, hes 8, he was really confused as to why people would treat some one different because of the color of their skin??? he just couldnt fathom that that actually happens. We asked him if he had any friends at school with dark skin and if he treated them any different, he simply said, why would I. We can learn a lot from kids.

6 minutes ago, Utebird said:

Not sure not having kids is going to decrease violent crime, though if there were no people than no violent crime i guess😉

If it were as easy telling a kid not to be a criminal my 3 year old daughters wall wouldnt be covered in crayon and permanent marker😠😉

 

Sure it will. Less likely criminals born especially in poverty. Freakonomics showed as much in first book

the point is to have the kids make bad decisions while it is safe to learn from them. But being a kid is a far cry from being a criminal. 

 

Flyers still suck. They have 2 minutes left to boycott