{"id":1680475,"date":"2022-10-09T09:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T13:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680475"},"modified":"2022-10-09T09:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T13:30:17","slug":"nba-has-only-itself-to-blame-for-miserable-decline-into-incivility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nba-has-only-itself-to-blame-for-miserable-decline-into-incivility\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Has Only Itself to Blame for Miserable Decline Into Incivility"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fnba-has-only-itself-to-blame-for-miserable-decline-into-incivility%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=1680475&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Phil Mushnick\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/phil-mushnick.png?w=38 38w\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As the NBA scene grows more uncivil \u2014 last week, Warriors star and repetitive reprobate Draymond Green put on a vulgar public show following <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/08\/draymond-green-calling-jordan-poole-a-bitch-sparked-fight\/\">his assault of a teammate<\/a> \u2014 commissioner Adam Silver continues to whistle past the dump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Silver seems unwilling to firmly or even tangentially deal with what\u2019s increasingly plaguing the NBA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brings to mind Silver\u2019s mentor, the late NBA commissioner David Stern, who, during an interview with NBC\u2019s Bob Costas, scoffed at the notion that taunting and trash-talking inspire too many on-court fights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The next season, the NBA added anti-taunting rules to reduce the number of on-court fights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the past, oh, 10 years, readers \u2014 too many to ignore \u2014 have let it be known they no longer hold an interest in the NBA, no longer even check the standings, as it has become a harbor for selfish, profane players, disruptive in-house audiences, sense-depriving, pounding piped-in \u201cmusic,\u201d and games reduced to basketball-barren 3-point barrages.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And TV-dictated late weeknight NBA Finals have become far too easy to ignore for those who once watched as conditioned. People aren\u2019t going to lose any sleep missing the NBA Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/AFP_32KU8G2.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Adam Silver <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/draymond-poole-005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/draymond-poole-005.jpg\" alt=\"Teammates and personnel quickly ran over to intervene following Green&#039;s punch.\" class=\"wp-image-24163991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/draymond-poole-005-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/draymond-poole-005-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/draymond-poole-005-2.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Teammates and personnel quickly ran over to intervene following Green\u2019s punch.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">TMZ Sports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NBA-certified, shared-cut gambling on games and players \u2014 the NBA has two \u201cofficial\u201d gambling partners \u2014 can only do so much, and, inevitably, for so long.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Don\u2019t rain on his charade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In its insulting public relations campaign to rid or reduce the presumed high number of white racists, the NFL, under the guidance of commissioner Roger Goodell, has chosen the league\u2019s largest stage to promote every negative stereotype and self-enslaving reality that promotes and sustains black America in corrosive cultural reverse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Consider that the NFL\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/01\/rihannas-halftime-show-selection-the-latest-nfl-hypocrisy\/\">latest Goodell-certified selection to headline the Super Bowl halftime show is more of the shameless same<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The NFL, no better ideas yet again under Goodell, <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/10\/05\/rihanna-nervous-but-excited-to-perform-at-the-2023-super-bowl-halftime-show\/?_ga=2.145242100.1778533904.1665091101-1016180985.1650839718\">has selected Rihanna<\/a>, whose popularity is at least partially predicated on her recordings, performances and lyrics that Goodell wouldn\u2019t repeat as highly inappropriate for him and his. But her act has been selected as perfect for you and yours on Super Bowl Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/FOOTBALL-NFL-KC-LAC_-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FOOTBALL-NFL-KC-LAC_-2.jpg\" alt=\"Roger Goodell\" class=\"wp-image-24176671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FOOTBALL-NFL-KC-LAC_-2-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FOOTBALL-NFL-KC-LAC_-2-2.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FOOTBALL-NFL-KC-LAC_-2-3-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/FOOTBALL-NFL-KC-LAC_-2-3-scaled.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Roger Goodell<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">USA TODAY Sports<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Let\u2019s examine Rihanna\u2019s words from a tune tamely named \u201cNeeded Me.\u201d Ready, Roger? The word edits are mine, not that they\u2019d have otherwise been printed:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was good on my own, that\u2019s the way it was, that\u2019s the way it was\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You was good on the low for a faded f\u2013k on some faded love.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>S\u2013t, what the f\u2013k you complaining for? \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You was just another n\u2014a on the hit list\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tryna fix your inner issues with a bad bitch\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Didn\u2019t they tell you that I was a savage\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>F\u2013k your white horse and a carriage \u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just a sample of her parade of vulgarity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet she\u2019s Goodell\u2019s latest choice to entertain the nation on Super Bowl Sunday. Follow the bouncing ball, Rog!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Goodell continues to have the backs of the end zones stenciled in conspicuously large words that read \u201cIt Takes All of Us\u201d and \u201cEnd Racism.\u201d Yeah, he\u2019s a social activist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Rex wrong guy to try to teach civility<\/h2>\n<p>There sat Rex Ryan on ESPN, ripping <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/07\/nflpa-wants-changes-to-concussion-protocol-by-this-weekend\/\">the inhumanity that sent concussed Dolphins QB Tua Tagovailoa back into the game against Buffalo<\/a>. You don\u2019t treat humans like that, he lamented. The clip of his solemn proclamation even appeared on NBC\u2019s national news.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is the same Rex Ryan who, as coach of the 2015 Bills, sent out backup linebacker IK Enemkpali as his team captain \u2014 but only for the coin flip before a game against the Jets, the team Ryan coached the season before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Browns-Bills-Football.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Browns-Bills-Football.jpg\" alt=\"Rex Ryan while coach of the Bills.\" class=\"wp-image-24176693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Browns-Bills-Football-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Browns-Bills-Football-2.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Browns-Bills-Football-3-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Browns-Bills-Football-3-scaled.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Rex Ryan while coach of the Bills. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Why Enkemkapali? As a Jet in 2014, he broke QB and teammate Geno Smith\u2019s jaw with a sucker punch over an unpaid debt. Just Coach Ryan\u2019s way of saying \u201cThanks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now Ryan\u2019s a humanitarian.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Joe Davis, Fox NFL play-by-play man, is the latest to refer to only designated ball handlers \u2014 receivers, running backs, quarterbacks \u2014 as those who play \u201cskill positions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thus, offensive linemen, so often the difference between winning and losing, must be \u201cunskilled\u201d players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps Davis watched the Patriots-Packers game that last Sunday followed his call of Bears-Giants. Had he paid attention he\u2019d have seen that undrafted Pats veteran center David Andrews, all in and everywhere on every offensive play, was the most skilled unskilled player on the field.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/Fox-Davis-Baseball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Fox-Davis-Baseball.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Davis\" class=\"wp-image-24176704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Fox-Davis-Baseball-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Fox-Davis-Baseball-2.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Fox-Davis-Baseball-3-scaled.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Fox-Davis-Baseball-3-scaled.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Joe Davis<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>Last week, Astros manager Dusty Baker, ostensibly brought in to help cleanse a scandalized-by-cheating team, declared that Barry Bonds, not Aaron Judge, is the legitimate single-season home run record-holder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baker told the Houston Chronicle:\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWhat I saw Barry do, I don\u2019t care what people say, I was with him every day. They want to put an asterisk by it, but them 73 that went over the fence didn\u2019t have an asterisk by them when they went over that fence with regularity.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Well, there\u2019s your proof that they were legit! He saw them!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Baker\u2019s world, that means that Judge\u2019s 62 legitimately places him at No. 7 \u2014 behind Bonds, Sammy Sosa (66, 64, 63) and Mark McGwire (70, 65). Pathetic.<\/p>\n<h2>MLB\u2019s fall of insanity<\/h2>\n<p>Postseason Baseball, Day 1. Crazy continues:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/07\/cardinals-implode-in-ninth-to-lose-first-wild-card-game-vs-phillies\/\">Phillies 6, Cardinals 3<\/a>, on Friday, another playoff game lost to senseless, analytics-fueled use and misuse of bullpens. Both teams tried to lose it by yanking effective starters for transient relievers. As usual, only one succeeded. Don Larsen would not have been allowed to throw the third time into Brooklyn\u2019s lineup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>Doug Glanville, hype-free and thoughtful ESPN baseball analyst \u2014 he\u2019s a Penn grad, degree in engineering \u2014 was very difficult to hear throughout Game 1 of Rays-Guardians on Friday. No one bothered to adjust his audio level. Common TV negligence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That Kyle Schwarber, who struck out an MLB high 200 times and hit .218 this season, led off Game 1 for the Phils versus the Cards was what\u2019s called counterintuitive. That\u2019s a fancy way to say, \u201cI don\u2019t get it.\u201d Schwarber went 0-for-4, struck out twice. Rhys Hoskins, who struck out 169 times, 10th most, batted second, 0-for-5, two K\u2019s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jose Being Manny: Cleveland star Jose Ramirez did his best to jog-and-watch his two-run homer to center into a single Friday, but the ball just cleared the yellow home-run line.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Did ESPN really think that those who tuned to watch Phils-Cards would take their eyes off live action to read, then consider, a boxed graphic listing the previous eight pitches \u2014 speed and type of pitch \u2014 thrown by Zach Wheeler? Knuckleheads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Mets abandoned their team colors \u2014 New York\u2019s colors, as well \u2014 to open the playoffs wearing black jerseys, a crime against the better local baseball senses and once-immutable traditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It sure sounded as if Jose Quintana, the Cards\u2019 Game 1 starter, was hollering an expletive with every pitch, but he wasn\u2019t. He likely knew the Mets were watching, thus kept shouting, \u201cBuck!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the NBA scene grows more uncivil \u2014 last week, Warriors star and repetitive reprobate Draymond Green put on a vulgar public show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1680477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680475","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=1680475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1680477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}