Former NBA star Kevin McHale appeared on the NBC hit primetime comedy of “Cheers”, where his character ultimately faced an existential crisis in obsessing over and counting the number bolts securing the parquet floor of the mecca for basketball that is Boston Garden.
While the script of McHale’s odyssey was hilariously bizarre, certain modern athletes face a narrative that is an abyss far removed from irreverence and represents the core of the countercultural movement promoted by the attack on free will.
As a handful of professionals have exceeded their public figure status bank account of lunacy in the wake of Colin Kaepernick performing a sociological meltdown during the National Anthem that borders on the unpatriotic and mundane, sports and politics are being forced together in a deplorable act of force and submission. Subsequently, the major revenue generating sports leagues are on the trajectory echoing a Venezuelan dictatorship in passive aggressively pushing for gun control, while isolating and ostracizing their players who can legally possess firearms. Ja Morant should evolve as a household name within the game of the misunderstood.
The intertwining of entertainment and legislation rivals a bad first date between Nancy Pelosi (the Gavin Newsom two degrees of separation) and the prince of sensibility, as the much-maligned National Basketball Association faces deserved criticism in punishing basketball players for exercising or “exorcising” basic rights in pushing a nefarious agenda that jukes the Second Amendment with a ferocious crossover dribble.
NBA star point guard Morant has faced the wrath of the politically correct contemporary culture within the league, as the Memphis Grizzly member posted, via recklessly, a video on social media platform Instagram brandishing a handgun within a private vehicle. As a result of his apparent transgression, the league suspended him for multiple games. In the latest saga, Morant has been giving a “guns up” gesture to opponents after sinking three pointers, which has prompted the league implement sanctions for the pantomime, which allegedly threatens the sanctity and safety of an organization adhering to draconian measures seasoned with a heaping serving of hypocrisy.
It is no secret that professional sports leagues employ extremely qualified individuals as armed security personnel to protect their celebrity employees, including collaborating with law enforcement, yet do not permit players from showing support for the Second Amendment and concepts that range on the basic liberties spectrum from free speech to law-abiding and reasonable self-defense.
Unfortunately, the NBA leadership is indifferent to skyrocketing gun sales withing minority communities as residents of neighborhoods bombarded by decades of gang violence and insolence are no longer tolerating the proliferation of crime. The unrelenting wave of civil unrest is a stark and ominous detriment to their livelihood and a deterrent to future generations vulnerable to the actions of people with bad intentions that will at the very least involve serious injuries, if not fatalities.
The high-flying skyrocketing game of Ja Morant that defies gravity is only the backdrop to the irregularities of the current socio-economic climate of elected officials helping people to ultimately aid big government in continuing to enable criminals, rather than assist those in dire need of direction and focus to succeed and achieve a buoyancy of happiness.
Amid the abundant sanctimony of sociological intentions, even the “Guns up” gesture from Texas Tech university fans and players is criticized by proponents of gun control and remains an arrogant virtual signaling campaign that does not even touch on the logical spectrum or exists within the bounds of sanctimony and the social graces of humanity.
At one point in one shining moment over course of generations the NBA was formidable brand, however the leadership of the league, along with the MLB, and the virally popular NFL is a portrait of failure and is alienating fans, while revenue has plummeted. As the policy is failing, the business model thrives, and accountability is as rare as Stephen Curry playing defense.
Morant is an unfortunate scapegoat for anti-gun liberals, forcing ideology upon a captive audience that has now invaded the realm of competition and entertainment. As he is no Plaxico Burress, his punishment does not fit the crime, while the NBA continues to allocate resources to build a massive presence and revenue stream in China without consequences.