Doug Gottlieb: “I’m not in any way diminishing the fight for social justice and the way many of these players continue to want to make this front and center... But what is the point of what we’re doing? I understand players want to be more than just seen as a guy who puts a ball through a hoop, but there are 450 NBA players on an earth of 8 billion people. With Jamal Murray you’re talking about one of the 20-25 best human beings on the planet to play basketball. You just had 50 in an elimination game. HOW ABOUT IT BEING A LITTLE BIT OF FUN?? We lost track of this thing – ‘well, I don’t want to be some guy who gives you entertainment’ – hey dude, that’s your job. It’s a really, really well paying job, and it gives you a platform to share your thoughts whenever… There wasn’t one mention of ‘THAT WAS FUN! I’m hittin’ jumpers in Rudy Gobert’s eye!’ As we try to keep politics sort of in, and sort of out of sport, the one thing it’s done is kind of take the fun out of it.” (Full Segment Above)
Listen to Doug Gottlieb discuss Nuggets guard Jamal Murray’s emotional monologue minutes after his mammoth 50-point game versus the Jazz on Sunday night, as the red-hot guard was choking up when explaining his George Floyd and Breonna Taylor-inspired sneakers he was wearing during the game.
Check out the segment above as Gottlieb details why the NBA’s persistence to hit on subjects of social justice has kind of taken the ‘fun’ out of the game, as you’d think Murray would be upbeat and glowing after one of the biggest moments of his basketball career.
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