Republicans (and conservatives) not only buy Air Jordans, too, but many still watch the NBA and are fans of the league.
So it’s truly astounding to watch the NBA, in real time, try so hard to drive many of those fans away by pandering to the fringe left, pandering to LeBron James, pandering to Dr. Fauci sycophants, and pandering to whatever flavor of the month leftists are enamored with at the moment.
Even the NFL, once a hotbed of national anthem protests, has largely appeared to right the ship when it comes to “woke” nonsense pervading professional sports. But not the NBA, and a recent incident involving the Toronto Raptors is excruciating evidence of that.

The Raptors found themselves in the midst of perhaps one of the dumbest, most contrived controversies in recent history after posting a completely benign, innocuous video celebrating Women’s History Month.
The video was apparently so offensive, so rife wit …