Must be pretty worried about ratings and game attendance.

The NBA has identified the marketing opportunities in being the "woke" league, so I'm very surprised by this.

If you want to see this movement/gesture dissipate into self-parody, let it play out 7 nights a week.

Yeah, already there have been a bunch of the newly-protesting NFL players who clearly don't know what exactly they're protesting, some even sounding like they've only joined in the protests because of Trump's comments, not any larger social issue.

Great commissioner.

MANY of Kaepernick's critics don't know what he is protesting either.

MANY of Kaepernick's critics don't know what he is protesting either.

And that confusion isn't helped by guys who have felt compelled into protesting without a full understanding of its scope now sounding off about why and what they are protesting. After this last week, I can't decide which of the four different ostensible protests are going on at any given time: Police brutality committed against young black men with little to no scrutiny; "inequality"; Donald Trump; or Unity against Donald Trump.

This is from guys and a league that only are able to protest a few days a week, imagine NBA players trying to stay on-message night in and night out. Kaep's was the best, it was concise, it stood out, and it had a coherent endgame. Now all this kneeling stuff is so close to jumping the shark, it got close to becoming an ice-bucket-challenge style internet meme with #TakeAKnee.

And that confusion isn't helped by guys who have felt compelled into protesting without a full understanding of its scope now sounding off about why and what they are protesting. After this last week, I can't decide which of the four different ostensible protests are going on at any given time: Police brutality committed against young black men with little to no scrutiny; "inequality"; Donald Trump; or Unity against Donald Trump.

This is from guys and a league that only are able to protest a few days a week, imagine NBA players trying to stay on-message night in and night out. Kaep's was the best, it was concise, it stood out, and it had a coherent endgame. Now all this kneeling stuff is so close to jumping the shark, it got close to becoming an ice-bucket-challenge style internet meme with #TakeAKnee.

They all matter. Which one did you support?

To be fair, I don't think it's good that Kaepernick's protest has been turned into "stick it to Donald Trump," largely by people who resented Kaepernick for not voting in the election.

I don't see it that way. Those folks are just taking a knee or protesting for a different reason. All marches generally look the same but folks are marching for different reasons. No one dismisses a domestic violence march or a cancer march because it looks similar to a march against Mike Glennon.

Saying that all athletes must take a knee for the same reason is silly.

Wrong. This topic is now a national issue...an international issue if you consider London this morning. There are common threads connecting all of these issues being protested. The same group in America that allows cops to get away with police brutality against minorities is the same group that voted Trump in as President. That section of America is 'okay' with being divisive and discriminating. The protest is about those people...no matter their exact crime. As soon as people in positions of 'power' across the nation joined the protest...it legitimized it all. The protest is way more successful now than a year ago.

None of it matters anyway because Kaepernick disrespected our military and veterans and our country and the police and firemen and wore a t-shirt and because he has a giant afro and has a woke girlfriend and he isn't a good football player and hasn't spoken about what contract he would accept and donated some money to the wrong cause.

Isn't the Assata Shakur cop murder case highly controversial?