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Sports Illustrated on Thursday raved over the reactions of pro basketball analysts Kenny Smith and Chris Webber to the NBA's Jacob Blake-inspired boycotts resulting in Wednesday's cancellation of three playoff games. Afterwards, Outkick's Jason Whitlock said these former pro players have been duped by a hollow Nike "Just Do It" mentality and social justice bubble groupthink.

The Milwaukee Bucks announced they were boycotting Game 5 of their playoff series against Orlando at the NBA's social justice bubble Wednesday. The league later announced that all three playoff games scheduled for Wednesday would be postponed. NBA social justice warriors are incensed over the paralyzing of Jacob Blake, an African American shot by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin Sunday.…

Race, politics and social justice are the over-arching themes in the NBA bubble press room at Disney World in Orlando, day-in and day-out. The ongoing playoff games are practically a mere side show for Black Lives Matter, marginalizing police departments, fighting systemic racism and voter suppression. Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers proved that again Tuesday while holding court in the…

Toxic Tweeter Jemele Hill on Sunday managed to lower her subterranean social media bar by writing the U.S. is worse than Hitler's Nazi Germany. Taking the first line in Sam Cooke's old song "Wonderful World," Hill showed she "Don't know much about history," but as a race baiter extraordinaire this African American woman knows how to bludgeon the country that's made her famous and wealthy.

Earlier this year, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell apologized on behalf of his league for not listening to players protesting since 2016. With the season opener just 18 days away, Goodell on Sunday doubled down on his support for social justice activism in his league, praised former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick and said he hopes Americans are ready to accept a new season of heightened…

The NFL season hasn't even begun yet, but the Kansas City Chiefs are already sanitizing Arrowhead Stadium -- of Indian headdresses. It's just another way a large U.S. organization hopes to make the public think that they, too, are out in front of the curve on addressing racial sensitivities.

This month's HBO episode of Real Sports, with host Bryant Gumbel, chronicled the downward spiral of Major League Baseball's first social justice protester. After taking a knee in 2017, Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell soon played his way out of baseball, suffered through depression, went to jail, and has bounced around the minor leagues since then. Gumbel called Maxwell's comeback…

In mocking the president he hates, LeBron James raised eyebrows Tuesday by parking himself under a Make America Great Again hat. James' hat displayed an altered version of MAGA, crossing out the words "Great Again" and adding a message about Breonna Taylor, an African American woman who was shot to death by police in Louisville in March.

An in-depth New York Times examination of the controversy over males competing in women's sports stumbles out of the starting blocks and limps home to the finish line. The story by Gillian R. Brassil and Jeré Longman on Tuesday is mostly supportive of transgenders competing with opposite-gender sports and cites some dubious sources…

We've moved on from Black Lives Matter to Black Voters Matter, thanks to LeBron James and his voter suppression-fighting posse. In conjunction with the More Than A Vote organization, the NBA superstar activist and other woke athletes signed a letter Monday urging African Americans to combat Black voter suppression in 2020.

Over the weekend, media on the Right and the Left cast doubts on the intent and impact of social justice actions taking place in college and professional sports. Appearing on Fox News Saturday, Outkick's Jason Whitlock said the pro athletes staging social justice protests falsely think they are moving the country forward, and it will take years for sports to recover from the divisiveness they'…

In an "historic move," would-be "National Director of Voting" LeBron James has landed another professional sports venue as a voting site for November's Election Day. It's Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, which will become the first Major League Baseball ballpark ever to do this. 

"Police brutality" is not the proper way to describe the nature of American policing, says the Boston Celtics' cop-hating forward Jaylen Brown. He prefers the term "domestic terrorism," and Newsweek magazine gave him an unquestioned forum to level his outrageous charge.

In regard to football and COVID-19 Tuesday, President Donald Trump took on hostile fire from New York magazine and found safe harbor in a discussion with Clay Travis on Fox Sports Radio.  NY mag's Will Leitch blamed the president and a lack of federal guidelines for the crumbling of the 2020 college football season. President Trump said college players have been working hard in hopes…