{"id":32795,"date":"2021-02-10T05:26:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T10:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/mark-cuban-told-mavericks-not-to-play-national-anthem-before-home-games\/"},"modified":"2021-02-10T05:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T10:26:13","slug":"mark-cuban-told-mavericks-not-to-play-national-anthem-before-home-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/mark-cuban-told-mavericks-not-to-play-national-anthem-before-home-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Cuban Told Mavericks Not to Play National Anthem Before Home Games"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said Tuesday that he decided before the start of the season not to play the national anthem before the team\u2019s home games. \u201cIt was my decision, and I made it in November,\u201d Cuban said without further comment. The new policy, which was first reported by the Athletic, makes Dallas the first team to forgo playing the anthem at home games. The Mavericks played their first ten regular-season home games without the anthem and without fans. Fans were invited to a game for the first time on Monday, with the team allowing 1,500 vaccinated essential workers to attend games for free. The NBA has allowed teams \u201cto run their pregame operations as they see fit\u201d because of \u201cthe unique circumstances this season,\u201d according to a league spokesman. Players had been required to stand for the national anthem since the 1980s in accordance with the league\u2019s rule book. NBA commissioner Adam Silver said in December that the rule would not be strictly enforced this season. \u201cI recognize that this is a very emotional issue on both sides of the equation in America right now, and I think it calls for real engagement rather than rule enforcement,\u201d Silver said at the time. The rule was also not strictly enforced at the end of the 2019-20 season when a number of players chose to kneel during the anthem to show solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Cuban has been outspoken in his support of the movement, saying in June that he would kneel with players during the anthem. He also tweeted shortly after, \u201cThe National Anthem Police in this country are out of control. If you want to complain, complain to your boss and ask why they don\u2019t play the National Anthem every day before you start work.\u201d Cuban defended the league\u2019s support of Black Lives Matter on The Megyn Kelly Show podcast in October, saying the NBA does not endorse \u201cBlackLivesMatter.com,\u201d the group which was founded by Marxists and has expressed support for dismantling the nuclear family, but instead the Black Lives Matter movement at large, which he claims is separate from the group. \u201cWe\u2019re supporting the movement. It\u2019s really a distributive movement across the country to try to end racism to bring awareness to social justice issues,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

Source:: Yahoo News – Sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said Tuesday that he decided before the start of the season not to play the national anthem…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}