Over the past eight years, the National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball and National Football League have been headed for political swirls for the past eight years.
In 2016, the NBA moved the All -Star game from North Carolina. Predicts of the state law, we have eliminated the protection of discrimination against lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. Baseball moved the All -Star game in Georgia in 2021 with a reaction to the enactment of more limited voting rules. And in 2020, President Donald J. Trump repeated criticism of NFL players kneeling in the national anthem, protesting peacefully, and issued a statement of players who supported the rights of players who criticized the “systematic oppression of blacks.” .
During this president’s cycle, the league maintained neutral, and their only message was the only message encouraging people to vote. But many owners, players and coaches have opened their wallets or mouths to support candidates. Recently, Los Angeles Lakers Superstar, Lebron James, announced the support of Vice President Kamala Harris, and San Francisco 49ERS Defensive Line Man Nick Bosa (Nick Bosa) on TV’s “Make Great Again” Slogan on TV nationwide. I wore a hat with.
It was a show that shows how the professional sports world is divided into presidential politics.
Jonathan Isaac, who plays in Orlando Magic and Kansas City Chief’s kicker Harrison Butker, is probably the most conservative and conservative player in three leagues. Mr. Bucker is almost known outside the NFL until he starts in May at Benedictine College, a conservative Roman Catholic school in Kansas. It was about their degree. He then began the Political Action Committee to support President Trump.
Isaac is well known in conservative circles since he kneeled in the country and kneeled with many other NBA players when the league began again in Kovid’s “Bubble” environment four years ago in Orlando, Florida.
ISAAC posted on X in July. “The man was already president!”
ISAAC has supported NBA players extensively.
She visited the US Olympic Men’s Basketball Team in July, two weeks before President Viden dropped out of the game. She walked with Oakland, Harris’ hometown, and San Francisco, and walked with Steve Kerr, a coach of the team who coached the Golden State Warrior with three NBA championships when the team played.
Harris welcomed the warrior’s star Stephen Curry that day. He and Kerr spoke at the video at the Democratic National Convention in August.
Other NBA coaches criticized President Trump, including Doc Rivers in Milwaukee Bucks and Greg Popovich from San Antonio Spurs. Popovich said at a recent press conference, “This is the biggest whipped that walks on the Earth’s face.
스퍼스 포인트 가드 크리스 폴 (Chris Paul)은 필라델피아 이글스 (Philadelphia Eagles)의 방어 태클 인 토마스 부커 (Thomas Booker)와 함께 해리스 (Harris for Harris)라는 캠페인 그룹의 일원으로, 은퇴 한 스포츠 그레이트 매직 매직 존슨, 빌리 Jin Wang, Kans Parker, and MIT Smith also included.
WNBA players were politically active in the past and were particularly involved in the 2020 race, which determines the Senate’s control. This year, NNEKA OGWUMIKE, the chairman of the WNBA Player Union, acquired more votes than James, a nonprofit -free group found by James in 2020. She said that the focus of the organization will now be reproductive.
Seattle Storm, the team of OGWUMIKE, approved Harris like BIDEN in 2020.
The NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, donated thousands of dollars to Harris’ campaign and other Democratic campaigns. But he also gave Nikki Haley thousands of dollars when he was running for a Republican presidential candidate.
GOODELL and ROB MANFRED, the members of the baseball stadium, did not make public donations to the political campaign and the parties at this period.
Despite the free reputation of the NBA, Miriam Adelson, who acquired Dallas Mavericks in 2023, is one of Trump’s largest political supporters. She created a PAC that supported him, and other owners of NBA, NFL or MLB received political donations and funded for $ 100 million.
But politics is complicated with Mavericks. Mark Cuban, a small number of owners who sold the team’s control to Adelson and currently involved in basketball decisions, served as a representative of Harris’s campaign.
One of the most famous MLB donors is Charles Johnson, who owns the San Francisco Giants and spent $ 2.8 million in the political cause this year. The members of the Ricketts family who owned the Chicago Cubs made a big donation to both parties. Senator Pete Ricket, a Republican Republic, is part of the ownership group.
NFL owners David Tepper (Carolina Panthers), Rob Walton (Denver Broncos) and Woody Johnson (New York Jets) have donated millions of donations to Republican efforts. Johnson was a British ambassador at Trump’s administration and donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Trump’s Joint Fundraising Committee.
Arthur Blank, the owner of Atlanta Falcon and the founder of Home Depot, donated to the Democratic Party and Harris’s Political Action Committee. He is also a member of the business leader of Harris, a group that includes Cuba.
As the election day approached, more sports figures announced their preferences. But as with the approval of celebrities, fans are open to the question.
After BOSA appeared with Maga Hat in a team member’s camera interview, he was asked about it during the use of media after -game. “I refused to mention except to think it was an important time.
James fought in Halloween. He posted a video on social media and blocked the abuse with the video of citizenship protests and Trump’s images. The videos commissioned by James representatives argued that President Trump was racist.
James said, “When I think about my children and my family and think about how they grow, my choice is clear. “Kamala Harris vote !!!”
