I was just coming here to say that his “defense” was basically the Paradox of Tolerance for the unwritten rules crows.

Listen, there were very fine people on both sides of that monster dinger.

“You should be tolerant of my intolerance!”

He’s totally turning it around and trying to deflect it from what he knows he did.

Counter-point.

You’re so oppressed.

Because everything is politics. Recognizing that fact is just part of growing up.

Lots of people, including athletes, have issues that affect them every day that they can’t escape. So telling them to shut up about what is affecting them so you can apathetically ignore them better is the height of privilege. Maybe try some empathy instead of expecting everyone to cater to your whims?

Because a lot of the people who provide us this entertainment do not have the ability to escape society’s problems. They also have a very limited window in their lives to take advantage of their platform.

To your point, politics is also pretty annoying when you’re structurally discriminated against as black, latinx,…

If Gordon Hayward is the problem, then why on earth would my old, southern uncle keep saying that a team full of Gordon Haywards would be so much smarter and more coachable than the other teams and would win the next 10 championships?

I think it’s more that the franchise and the coach were protecting him because, you know, he’s a gritty, hard working, gym rat in Boston.

“I would think” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your comment.

Very misinformed. Croats are catholic and Serbs are orthodox. Yugoslavian war started between two of them and Bosnia got later pushed into their war.

This seems like a pretty important bit of context. I was having some trouble with the appropriateness of using a recent genocide for sports taunting, but as a memorial observance it makes sense.

here’s a little more context from ESPN magazine:

Worth noting that May 9 is Golden Lily Day in Bosnia, which is a sort of Memorial Day equivalent. So while it wouldn’t be at all surprising if Nurk wore the shirt to troll Jokic, it also could have been completely unrelated to him.

I was about to mention this. I’m more perplexed people were upset that it was raining indoors since we have a roof. Those aren’t sealed panels....drrrrr.

In his postgame interview, he acknowledged that the rain was a blessing.

Nah, it’s our duty as non-assholes to call out bigots. Otherwise you can sit here sealioning all day. 

A quick look at your comment history demonstrates that you aren’t asking this in good faith. Why not fuck off to someplace else?