Hostile reception as New York crowd boos and jeers president

Trump was shown on the jumbotron while the Star-Spangled Banner was being sung before the game, and jeers and boos broke out around the arena. The president was shown for a little over eight seconds and held a salute the whole time with a smile on his face. A few seconds later, the video board showed Knicks players in line and the boos turned to cheers...

 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jun/08/donald-trump-knicks-spurs-nba-finals-crowd-reaction-boos

 

Parents Fume as Jenison High School Ballers Are Benched for Monkey Taunts

Jenison Senior High School players were captured on video last month ridiculing a Black opponent on the free throw line...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/parents-fume-as-jenison-high-school-ballers-are-benched-for-monkey-taunts

Pruitt sat courtside in seats owned by coal executive: report - The Hill

EPA administrator Scott Pruitt attended a basketball game last December where he sat courtside in seats owned by a billionaire coal executive with business before Pruitt's agency.....
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/390386-pruitt-sat-courtside-in-seats-owned-by-coal-executive-report

'This could be bad': Video of police tasing Milwaukee Bucks rookie worries mayor - the guardian

Milwaukee's mayor, Tom Barrett, said he is concerned about public backlash that could emerge when a video of police officers tasing Bucks guard Sterling Brown, who did not "appear to be provocative at all" according to local reports, is released to the public this week. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/may/22/sterling-brown-tasing-video-bucks-player

It turns out Donald Trump and John Kelly lied about getting UCLA basketball players out of China

LiAngelo Ball, Cody Riley, and Jalen Hill were arrested for shoplifting, in China, during a UCLA basketball team trip back in the second week of November 2017. A little over a week later they were on their way home. Donald Trump made a big to-do about how he was personally involved in this bit of diplomacy....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2018/3/5/1746680/-It-turns-out-that-Donald-Trump-and-John-Kelly-lied-about-getting-UCLA-kids-out-of-China

Detroit Pistons Coach Stan Van Gundy Pens Stirring Essay in Support of Athletes Who Kneel | Alternet

"Honoring America has to mean much, much more than standing at attention for a song."....
https://www.alternet.org/culture/detroit-pistons-coach-stan-van-gundy-pens-stirring-essay-support-athletes-who-kneel

It's defeating him.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChildrenFallingOver/comments/7axjkl/its_defeating_him/