Hodgetwins and Mark Cuban dissect the NBA's mandate to resume the national anthem, attributing the reversal to a calculated strategy by league owners rather than player concessions. The host argues that previous anthem protests were a deliberate tactic to alienate white fans and transform the league into a "Negro leagues" entity devoid of white ownership, while accusing players of hypocrisy regarding patriotism compared to figures like Tom Brady. Ultimately, the discussion frames the anthem controversy as a liberal trick designed to divide the country, suggesting the league's return to tradition is merely an effort to win back ratings amidst accusations of racial alienation. [Automatically generated summary]
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NBA Fans and Virtue Signaling00:07:55
Yeah.
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Got a damn good show.
Yeah.
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Yeah.
Anyway, today's topic, the NBA.
Yeah.
I used to be a big fan growing up.
Loved basketball, man.
Played JV, played Vossy.
Yeah, that's about as far as it went.
Not because I wasn't talented.
My grades is too low.
No, we did all.
That damn ADA, what's it called?
Attention Deputy Disorder?
Had limitations, man.
Anyway, the NBA used to be big time fans.
Before I got into politics, I was actually a LeBron James fan.
But when I got into politics, I was like, man, this dude is stupid.
He's a loser.
Actually, when he beats me.
I wouldn't call him a loser.
No, to me, he's a loser.
I mean, he's not a loser-loser, but he's not a loser-loser.
He just, he sees the world differently than we do.
I actually cried when...
You didn't cry.
Shut up.
Yeah, I did, man.
You cried for what?
When Cleveland beats the Warriors, man.
That's a metaphor, figure speech.
Yeah, it's a metaphor.
I wasn't crying or crying.
It's a figure of speech like kind of when Donald Trump said, fight like hell.
Figure speech.
It doesn't mean to fight like hell.
It's a figure of speech.
But anyway, it's a figure of speech, Lefty.
The reason why we discussed the NBA cause of Mark Cuban, but before I even jump to that, I gave up all hope for the NBA when the players didn't want the owners of the team to be called owners anymore.
Yeah.
They felt it was racist.
They wanted the owners to be called governors.
Yeah, like there's no such thing as a racist governor.
There's good governors, but there's also some bad governors.
I mean, they own the team.
They own the coaches.
I mean, they don't own you physically.
I mean, like, let's look at this.
Slavery.
The owners own the slaves.
You can just walk in and say, Master, I quit.
You can't do that.
Today, you could do that if you really wanted to.
You could actually run away and the owner's not going to sick a bunch of dogs on you.
Yeah, they chase you down.
He's going to sue your ass.
Y'all just dealing with semantics.
That's how weak y'all are.
You are a commodity.
No way.
I don't care how you twist it or look at it.
It's just semantics.
Make you feel better.
You are a commodity.
Yes.
The owner, aka governor, owns your ass.
He owns the coaches.
He owns the water bottles.
He owns the jerseys.
I mean, it's just...
He owns the building.
Yeah, I mean, he owns it.
I mean, like I said, if you run away, I'm sure he's going to be pissed, but he's not going to sick dogs on you like they did in the slave days.
But anyway, Mark Cuban for this whole year hasn't, his team, before the games has not been playing the national anthem.
The most, I mean, this is, that's what brings, I mean, we should all be happy to hear that song because we live in the greatest country and this is the land of opportunity.
There's millions of immigrants that's non-white trying to get here because of that.
But they haven't been playing the national anthem and it was all because of Mark Cuban.
Well, there's players too, man.
I don't know if he was.
You think it was the players?
They had to do something.
I mean, he might have been virtue signaling, but I mean, come on.
He can't be that.
It had to be somebody else's.
I mean, have a tall ratings suffered enough.
Y'all walking around last year?
Well, I can't breathe on your shirts.
Yeah, keep going.
Equality.
Keep doing what you're doing.
Y'all going to turn the NBA into the old Negro leagues.
It's going to be black players and black people in the crowd.
Yeah.
The only white people are going to be there as the ones making money off of you.
Y'all went the Negro Leagues back?
I mean, y'all had Black Lives Matter on the court.
I mean, what this, y'all lost a lot of fans that love this country, that love that gave you this opportunity to make millions of dollars.
Yeah, you had in the game.
Hundreds of thousands of white supremacists watching you and paying you money.
There was a figure of speech.
I was being facetious.
They're not really racist.
You turn off a lot of white fans.
And the way y'all are going at it, you just...
Y'all trying to cancel yourself?
And the NBA stepped up, I guess, the head owner of the NBA.
I don't know what y'all call him.
What do y'all call him?
He's the grand governor.
Not the grand wizard.
He's the grand governor.
Right?
He said, no, from now on, Dallas Mavericks are going to play the national anthem.
See, I'm like hip to y'all's game now.
Yeah.
This was a trick to win back some fans.
Yeah, I think this was all planned.
Here on the right, we think a lot of you on the left are like stupid.
Yeah.
But y'all ain't stupid.
Y'all got this psychopathic, evil, evil genius.
Genius behind y'all.
I know this one.
They're like Mega Mine.
We're going to have this little pool.
We're not going to play the national anthem.
And then the owner of the leagues are going to come out and say, you know what?
Know what?
This is America.
We're going to play the national anthem for every damn game.
That's why I said it.
Yeah.
Mark Cuban, if you don't like it, you can quit.
No, they're trying to win back fans.
Nah, it ain't going to work.
Ain't going to work for me either.
I ain't watching not one single game.
Yeah, because I'm not going to support a league full of players that don't love this country.
I'm not going to support a league where the owners, a bunch of woke activists that's actually divide.
You're actually not bringing the country together.
You're actually dividing the country.
Painting a picture to a lot of black youth that watch your games that this country is racist.
Yeah.
I mean, the message y'all, you think you're doing something good, but every road paved to hell has been from good intentions.
And your intentions may be good, but you're doing more harm than good.
I'm not watching your game.
I'm sure a lot of people are not going to watch your games because you've showed everybody how ignorant you are and unappreciative you are to this country.
Yeah, you know, I don't watch, I make sure nobody, like, I had family come over, right?
Yeah.
That's my father-in-law from my wife's side, right?
They came over to his wife.
I came home from work, right?
I walked in.
He was watching the NBA.
I was like, what is this?
What are you watching?
He said, I'm watching the NBA.
I said, cut that shit off.
They ain't getting no ratings in this house.
Watch that shit on your phone.
Yeah, it kind of upset me that he was watching that in my house.
The only reason why I watched the Super Bowl is because Tom Brady was Tom Brady.
When he walked into the stadium with no mask, I said, man, I hope this guy wins.
Yeah, he's a Trump supporter, too.
So I was pulling for him because he had a Make America Great Again hat in his locker.
And I remember one game during the game, he called a play.
Reagan.
Reagan.
0-3 Reagan.
And they ran the ball to the right.
I said, man, this is a line right here.
This is a true American hero.
I was pulling for him and then a quarterback for Kansas City.
I forget his name.
I should, what's his name?
Mahomes.
Yeah, Mahomes.
He came in the stadium with his mask on.
It looked like it was painted to his face.
It was so like it was a part of his suit.
It all matched.
He looked nice, though, but that mask looked ridiculous.
Yeah, the NBA y'all suck.
I'm sure there's some good patriotic players in that league, but that just stay silent.
I'm sure there's some good.
I mean, I'm not saying that the other people that don't, yeah, y'all are some horrible people.
But I'm sure there's some good coaches, players, leadership.
I don't think so, man.
You don't think so?
How He Made His Billions00:02:55
I think they're all fools.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you, Ragman.
Hey, don't believe this little trick.
This little don't fall for it.
They're just trying to grab some fans.
Yeah.
Don't fall for it.
That's just a liberal trick.
I see some of their ratings.
They get more views on house hunters.
You know, those two annoying twins that are selling houses?
The property brothers?
Yeah, people watching that.
I shouldn't say annoying.
They're not annoying.
They're just bland and dry.
I'm just hating.
You can't, anybody that hosts a show on that network, you got to be real dry.
You can't be overburned like us.
They'd never have us on our.
Yeah.
It won't be about the houses.
It'll be about us.
Why did I say annoying?
They're not annoying.
I'm just hating.
Yeah, you hating on them.
I'm just hating.
You hating on them.
I'm hating on that white privilege they got.
Are they white?
They look white to me.
Yeah, they look white enough.
I mean, what would you think they're Mexican?
Hey, you know what?
You know what?
To black people, I'm black, if you didn't know.
To anybody just like fur skin, you could be from Colombia.
You could be from, you could be, you could actually be a Latino.
Or you could be a Cuban.
But yeah, Cuban or whatever.
Indian.
Yeah, but to black people, you white.
Yeah, you just don't know it.
You're a white man.
Yeah, but bark Cuban.
Not only are you hurting the NBA, I wouldn't be shocked if you're hurting Shark Tank's ratings.
Yeah.
On that show, you actually talked with some sense.
Well, kinda.
Canceling the national anthem to fans.
How did he make his billions?
He had some company.
This is how he made his billions.
He had this company.
An internet company, right?
Yeah, he sold it for billions of dollars.
The company ended up going out of business two months later.
The business wasn't worth anything.
He's on TV and he's grilling people on Shark Tank saying, how the hell is this company evaluated at 2, 3 million when he sold a company for billions of dollars that was not worth anything?
Yeah, only in America.
In another country, you've been arrested for that.
That's capitalism at its finest.
You of all people should be grateful for this country.
Yeah, for you not to play the national anthem at your games after you sold a company that was worth nothing for billions of dollars and then had the ability, the right to own an NBA team.
Yeah, that's how he got the money to own the Mavericks.