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Cancel This Entire Season of National Anthem Ball
So, I was expected to have a strong reaction to Mark Cuban briefly directing the Dallas Mavericks to cease playing the national anthem. Ok…
The morning began well enough, but there was an intrusion, and ripple in the Twitter continuum as it were. I was informed by the hive mind of social media that I am now expected to have a strong reaction to owner Mark Cuban directing the Dallas Mavericks NBA team to cease playing the national anthem.
I did not, other than a semi-joking tweet with the “Uh-huh, that’s bait” GIF from Fury Road and a quip about having seen this movie, agreeing with our friend Tod Kelly that the fact nobody noticed until now was telling, and later a lament that I was tired of National Anthem ball.
Sure enough, by mid-afternoon, ducking that particular ball of hot cultural mess proved out to be the correct decision since the original story didn’t even make it past lunchtime on the west coast.
Now we know why Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban didn’t want to bring attention to his decision to stop playing the national anthem before home games this season.
Days after Cuban’s decision started receiving national attention — but months after it was actually…
