Fair point. “Many minorities”.

No. Most of us minorities are conditioned to accept whatever scraps of acceptance we can get, regardless of how exploitative, half-assed, demeaning, or otherwise problematic it may be. I don’t think I’ll ever lose that initial, internal “woohoo!” when I see my identity referenced or used in the mainstream.

Can’t disagree with you there.

But Michael Bennett is very much not (and publicly disagreed with Sherman’s comments on BLM). And Jeremy Lane had already sat during the anthem in protest, and stated that he planned to continue doing so. So yeah, I am a little disappointed.

I guess I’d be more sympathetic if Bollywood didn’t have its own history of appropriating and half-assing dance/music/style from under-represented populations within the Indian subcontinent. Sometimes it feels like Inception, with how many levels there are to this shit.

The geometry of the field/court and number of players definitely lead to radically different ways of passing and developing plays (soccer players tend to probe for openings, whereas basketball players have more of a attack/reset/attack mentality). But I think that’s mainly a function of a shot clock vs. 90 mins of…

That’s a massive oversimplification and wrong in many ways.