{"id":122923,"date":"2021-02-10T07:17:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122923"},"modified":"2021-02-10T07:57:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T12:57:57","slug":"mavericks-have-stopped-playing-national-anthem-at-mark-cubans-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mavericks-have-stopped-playing-national-anthem-at-mark-cubans-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Have Stopped Playing National Anthem At Mark Cuban\u2019s Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmavericks-have-stopped-playing-national-anthem-at-mark-cubans-direction%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122923&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1209384417.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div id=\"the_post\" class=\"bodytext1 article-start\">\n<div id=\"the_paywall\">\n<p>At the direction of owner Mark Cuban, the NBA\u2019s Dallas Mavericks have stopped playing the national anthem before home games this season and do not intend to play it for home games moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>As noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tim_cato\/status\/1359302274577801217\">Tim Cato<\/a>, who broke the story at The Athletic on Monday evening, the anthem-snub by the Mavericks is \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">the first instance we know of a pro sports team striking the U.S. anthem from the pre-game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Cuban confirmed to Cato that he was the one who decided the Mavs should pull the anthem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of 13 preseason and regular-season games played at the American Airlines Center this season have featured the anthem before the game, including Monday\u2019s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, the first played this season with a limited amount of fans in attendance,\u201d Cato <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/2376670\/2021\/02\/09\/dallas-mavericks-anthem-nba-mark-cuban\/\">reported<\/a> Monday. \u201cThe Mavericks did not publicize the anthem\u2019s removal, and The Athletic was the first media organization to reach out about the change after noticing its absence on Monday. Multiple team employees described only noticing the anthem\u2019s removal on their own, as it was also not announced or explained internally.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As the nation has become increasingly divided, traditionally unifying acts of patriotism, like standing for the national anthem, have become partisan. The anthem controversy was first sparked in&nbsp;2016, when then-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick politicized \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d&nbsp;when he refused to stand because, according to Kaepernick, America \u201coppresses\u201d minorities and allows its cops to \u201cmurder\u201d innocent people of color.<\/p>\n<p>The protest has spilled into other sports, like women\u2019s soccer and professional basketball \u2014 where the Mavs have completely shunned the song altogether.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,\u201d Kaepernick&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/profootballtalk.nbcsports.com\/2016\/08\/27\/kaepernick-refuses-to-show-pride-in-a-country-that-oppresses-black-people\/\">told<\/a> Steve Wyche of NFL Media at the start of his protest, back in 2016. \u201cTo me, this is bigger than football and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not something that I am going to run by anybody,\u201d he continued. \u201cI am not looking for approval. I have to stand up for people that are oppressed. \u2026 If they take football away, my endorsements from me, I know that I stood up for what is right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an expression of protest against police, Kaepernick famously wore <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/kaepernick-skips-workout-organized-by-nfl-wears-t-shirt-comparing-himself-to-a-slave\">socks<\/a> at practice in 2016 that depicted police officers as pigs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wore these socks, in the past, because the rogue cops that are allowed to hold positions in police departments, not only put the community in danger, but also put the cops that have the right intentions in danger by creating an environment of tension and mistrust,\u201d Kaepernick wrote in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/colin-kaepernicks-practice-socks-pig-cops-hat-james-barrett\">defending<\/a> the \u201cpig cops\u201d socks on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>In November, 2019, after skipping a workout\/tryout organized by the NFL, Kaepernick, a multimillionaire endorsed by Nike, attended his own workout in a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/2019\/11\/colin-kaepernick-kunta-kinte-5-fast-facts\/\">Kunta Kinte<\/a>\u201d t-shirt, comparing himself to a defiant slave from the movie \u201cRoots.\u201d&nbsp;The film showcases an iconic scene wherein&nbsp;Kunta Kinte is whipped by his master for refusing to acknowledge his slave name, Toby.<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the direction of owner Mark Cuban, the NBA\u2019s Dallas Mavericks have stopped playing the national anthem before home games this season and do not intend to play &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893062,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6116,4334,6114,4107,4644,6115],"class_list":["post-122923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anthem","tag-have","tag-mavericks","tag-national","tag-playing","tag-stopped"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}