Legendary NBA coach stands during anthem

And later Friday, Gregg Popovich and Becky Hammon did the same.

Hammon, one of Popovich's assistant coaches, also stood. She draped one arm over the shoulders of Spurs assistant Will Hardy, kneeling to her right, and the other over veteran San Antonio guard Patty Mills, kneeling to her left. Popovich and Hammon both wore "Black Lives Matter" T-shirts, as almost all players and coaches have for warm-ups and the anthem.

Isaac's decision was not a surprise to his teammates; he revealed it in a team meeting earlier in the week. Isaac expected there would be some critical reaction, given how the kneeling is part of a statement against racial injustice and police brutality following the deaths of, among others, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in recent months.

Popovich, who often speaks out on political and racial matters, has been vocal in recent weeks about the opportunity that the platform of the NBA restart at Walt Disney World provides. Television ratings for the first two games Thursday night were massive; Turner Sports, which aired the doubleheader on TNT, said the average of 3.4 million total viewers "more than doubled the network's average viewership" for regular season games.

"Listen, the national anthem means different things to different people," TNT analyst Charles Barkley said in televised comments Thursday. "I'm glad these guys are all unified. But if people don't kneel, they're not a bad person. I want to make that perfectly clear. ... He should not be vilified."

He's old he can't kneel

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The fact what an individual choses to do to express his beliefs is even a subject of discussion is basically half the problem here. Not kneeling is not supporting violence against blacks.

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