Trail Blazers huddle during national anthem as display of unity

What is not to like? They are standing, facing the flag, with arms around each other, huddled as a UNIFIED team. I think it is the best idea yet.
They can't/won't ignore what every other team is doing. This seems like a great compromise. I bet it catches on.

 

They'll do what we do then talk about us when we're not around eh then tearfully launch into a robust chorus of Oh Canada!

 

I personally love what the Blazers did.
In a time where everyone is being told you must pick sides.
The team showed the opposite.

 

Sucks that the Blazers are doing this. I think it's misguided and yes, disrespectful. How exactly does disrespecting the country you love bring attention to racial inequality? How does it solve anything? This only brings attention to yourself. It helps nothing, other than your own conscience. How about you stand and look at the flag for two minutes, and appreciate all the good things it stands for and all the heroes who have died so that you can play basketball for a living, then after the game go do something of substance that actually helps racial inequality? But that probably makes too much sense.

No they're not. Their heads are down and half of them even have their backs to the flag.

 

To me, the whole "huddle together" is nothing more than attention whoring. They do something out of the ordinary to draw attention to themselves.

 

"We thought it was a great way to display that togetherness and that unity, which is really the message that I think needs to be sent the most," Blazers forward Moe Harkless said. "We're all one people. We're all one nation and we need to act that way."

"It was just showing that we're together," Mason Plumlee said. "Us as a team we all support each other. We all come from different situations yet we're very close. So that's what that was. We hope people in society have the same relationships that we have on our team. We're a very close team and we're very proud of that."

Again...not finding a problem with their intentions.

 

Nah stand in a square to represent the canadian wheel!

 

I love your sarcastic attitude towards everything. Its a very under appriciated skill these days. It takes a true scholar to offend everyone equally, yet somehow we manage. High fives. Fist bump, bro?

 

"Daddy would you like some sausage?"

 

Why do you assume there are only two genders bro?

 

How is clapping or cheering after the anthem disrespectful?

 

Of course someone thinks this is disrespectful.

"You'll stand up straight and stare at the flag like your great granddaddy did!"

 

Hilarious movie. Right up there with Pootie Tang on the list of "So stupid it's hilarious"

 

The brave men and women who faught for the freedom to protest would be proud.

As for unity, having black and white players TOGETHER saying shit needs to be addressed and changed is awesome.

My next door neighbor is black, and a former Marine, and we have talked about this since Kaepernick knelt. The flag means a different thing to him. The words of the Star spangled banner were written by a bigoted slave owner, so land of the free wasn't meant fir everyone. FS Key believed black people were inferior.

So while the thought of paying ancestors of slaves is completely laughable, there needs to be some serious reform when it comes to the oppression that is still faced today.