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Clay Travis: “It doesn’t make any sense at all. It is an emotional response to an emotionally charged event, but there is no tangible action that can come from the NBA players… Most people who protest, or boycott, or strike are seeking an action from someone else over a decision not to do something… That logic doesn’t apply here at all because the NBA players can’t really get anything from the NBA owners that addresses why they are upset. The NBA owners, and the NBA is general is not the justice system in the state of Wisconsin or in our nation. The justice system does not bend to the will of what the NBA players or owners want, nor should it… Yesterday evening after the players refused to play, details were released by the Wisconsin Department of Justice, including significantly that the individual who was shot in this case had, according the Department of Justice and according to this individual himself, a knife and refused to listen to police commands. When he went into his car the police officer who shot is going to say, and has said, that he feared for his safety because they had already tazed this man, already tried to subdue him, he was refusing to listen to officer commands, and he had a knife, so that police officer felt compelled to open fire. This is me putting my lawyer hat on. That’s going to be a really hard case even if charges are brought to get any sort of eviction at all… The NBA, their players, their organization, and their owner, has absolutely nothing to do with the decision that is made about what charges might be appropriate in this case, or if any charges at all will be brought. The NBA players have initiated a protest without the ability to, in any way, force anyone to make a change that leads to the protest ending… It’s like the players, with a really lack of understanding of the world at large, thought that there were going to be no police shootings because they were taking a knee for the National Anthem, and because they had social justice warrior slogans on their jerseys, and because they wrote ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the court. This is evidence to me that the players have a wildly outsized expectation about their own influence in the world at large and in the United States at large. Those players thought that somehow they were changing the world or changing the United States with what they were doing, but really they were just preaching to a choir that already agreed with them. It's not like there were super racist people out there saying ‘you know what, I want to kill people based on their race, but then I saw NBA players taking a knee for the National Anthem and I decided I shouldn’t be racist anymore'… That’s ludicrous and the NBA has a tiny pinprick of an audience. Around two million people watch an NBA game every playoff game. There are roughly 330 million people in the United States. They have almost no place on the decisions that are made in the United States by 328 million people who aren’t watching or consuming any of their content at all.” (Full Segment Above)
Listen to Clay Travis discuss the NBA players near-boycott of the league’s entire postseason in Orlando, and explain why he thinks it was a movement that lacked any logic from beginning.
Clay says he thinks the NBA players are not grasping the intimidate details of the Jacob Blake case, and how their boycott was never going to remotely change the way the Wisconsin Justice Department looked at the facts of the case
Check out the segment above as Clay details why he believes NBA players are 'wildly outsizing' their expectations of what their actual influence on everyday American life is, as Clay says it's a tiny pinprick.
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