Roy Absent during National Anthem (MERGED)

Either way. I know how YOU people like to argue when you're trying to hide your racism.

 

Re: Roy Absent during National Anthem

No, but I'll tell you who DOES stay on court during our national anthem:

Rudy Fernandez
Pau Gasol
Manu Ginobli
Carlos Delfino
Walter Herrmann
Andres Nocioni
Fabricio Oberto
Luis Scola
Anderson Varejao
Leandro Barbosa
Nene Hilario
Joel Anthony
Samuel Dalembert
Jamaal Magloire
Steve Nash
Francisco Garcia
Al Horford
Eduardo Najera
Carlos Arroyo
Jose Juan Barea
Adonal Foyle
Tim Duncan
Raja Bell
Stephane Lasme
“DJ” Ilunga-Mbenga
DeSagana Diop
Mouhammed “Saer” Sene
Cheikh Samb
Andrew Bogut
Yao Ming
Yi Jianlian
Sean Marks
Gordan Giricek
Boris Diaw
Yakhouba Diawara
Mickael Gelabale
Ian Mahinmi
Tony Parker
Johan Petro
Mickael Pietrus
Ronny Turiaf
Zaza Pachulia
Dirk Nowitzki
Luol Deng
Kelenna Azubuike
Andrea Bargnani
Marco Belinelli
Andris Biedrins
Zydrunas Ilgauskas
Linas Kleiza
Darius Songaila
Francisco Elson
Dan Gadzuric
Marcin Gortat
Andrei Kirilenko
Marko Jaric
Nenad Krstic
Darko Milicic
Aleksandar Pavlovic
Kosta Perovic
Vladimir Radmanovic
“Peja” Stojakovic
Primoz Brezec
Bostjan Nachbar
"Rasho" Nesterovic
Beno Udrih
Sasha Vujacic
Jose Calderon
Jorge Garbajosa
Juan Carlos Navarro
Sergio Rodriguez
Thabo Sefolosha
Mehmet Okur
Hedo Turkoglu
Kyrylo Fesenko
Oleksiy Pecherov

None of these guys were born in the U.S., and most are not U.S. citizens, but they all somehow manage to stand on court during the playing of our national anthem.

Amazing. I guess Brandon Roy really is "special."

 

Those people should be happy we allow them in our country so they can make millions. They should thank me and my people for allowing them that opportunity.

 

I understand this has come up before, I saw that Canzano already wrote about (hence my statement about beating a dead horse). However I was unaware of it. Regardless it seems to be in bad taste IMHO, and I'm a big Broy fan. I cannot stand people who think they're too good to stand for the national anthem, it makes me sick. I'm not saying Roy is doing the same thing here, but it appears as though it could be along the same lines. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a legit reason, but you don't see any other players doing it. I find it hard to believe it's basketball related. Prove me wrong Brandon, PLEASE.

 

How is he saying he's too good to stand for it? He's still standing. He's just using it as a private moment to himself. If it's ok to speculate that it is political, he has an underlying meaning, then I guess I can throw out speculation. It's clearly based on deep strong emotional ties that he has for the song. The song touches him in a personal way, because of all HIS PEOPLE owe to this country and that flag, so he takes that brief 1.5 to 2 minutes to shed a silent tear in the tunnel.

 

Re: Roy Absent during National Anthem

I believe he is gunning for a spot on Fox News.

It's the only answer to why that doesn't make him look like a fucking stupid asshat.



On second thought I believe he is a fucking stupid asshat.

 

I've never looked forward to a national anthem moreso than tonight to see what B-Roy does.

 

I've been thinking the same thing all day. To me, it's pretty obvious that Roy IS making a political statement, no matter what he says. The act speaks for itself, and he's been doing it for two years now.

 

Let this thread die already.

 

How is it obvious? How? Please explain what makes it OBVIOUS, other than you hopping right along with Canzano like a damn sheep, and making the worst assumption you can. Why don't you assume what i posted above? That'd be too difficult, when you can instead just KNOW that it is a negative. Pathetic.

 

Re: Roy Absent during National Anthem

Well those people better stay on the court. For example, Rudy's people owns the Trailblazers and pay him a large amount of money. Where as Roy's people do not own the Blazers and don't pay him money.

So Rudy owes it to his people, Roy doesn't owe it to his people.

 

Sheesh. You people need to be more *****rdly with your time.

 

Jorge Garbajosa and Juan Carlos Navarro stay on the court when they play our national anthem? When did we invade Spain?

 

Wait...*****rdly gets blocked here? WTF?

 

WHAT DO YOU MEAN "YOU PEOPLE"?!?!?!

 

well....

 

It's not about the country they are from, it's about the color of their skin.

 

You know what would suck . . . if Roy stopped doing this because of peer pressure and then put together a string of bad games.

 

No way. About 50 more posts, and this thing surpasses some of the playoff game and Laker game threads from last season.