Star-Spangled BANner: Kneeling to wokeness, NBA’s Dallas Mavericks CANCEL national anthem before home games
Owner Mark Cuban announced he was the instigator of the plan to ban the song, which is customarily played before every National Basketball Association (NBA) game.
“It was my decision, and I made it in November,” The New York Times reported Cuban saying. Last August, the billionaire championed players taking a knee in protest during the national anthem, telling ESPN: “If they were taking a knee and they were being respectful, I’d be proud of them. Hopefully I’d join them.”