SACRAMENTO -- Adam Silver said the wrong thing to the right people in the current Whitehouse Administration, and this has resulted in the complete loss of all H1B visas in the league. This is not a Khaman Maluach situation, either. The list of players who are gone gone are:
- Nikola Jokić
- Joel Embiid
- Giannis Antetokounmpo
- Luka Dončić
- Rudy Gobert
- Maxime Raynaud
The list goes on. So many lives transplanted, families torn up. This comes on the heels of the deportation of a soccer forward by ICE just recently as well. Steven Miller was quoted saying "The NBA is for the Nation. Its for nationalists, for natalists, not for...those people." Which is surprising given the demographics he plans to kick out, but I don't associate logic with any of the recent decisions.
The only upside to this is now the EuroLeague is going to POP off. The talent is back in the gene pool. Futher, many players are planning an exodus from the US, there are rumors of LeBron James flirting with Slovakia.
Given the European nations are beginning to drop out of the Eurovision like files due to a specific controversial genocide that we will not mention, the basketball competition is set to replace the famed singing competition. Children are now shooting 3s instead of singing in like Norweagian or whatever.