NBA commissioner Adam Silver said there could be a 'return to normalcy,' and that social justice messages will 'largely be left to be delivered off the floor.'
The NBA spent a good portion of its COVID-delayed season trying to figure out how to spread messages to combat social injustice, when its game resumed. The league has allowed players to wear social justice sayings on their jerseys, and each court has"Black Lives Matter" painted on it.
Now that its playoffs are about to wrap up, and playoff ratings are at a 40-year low, the NBA commissioner said that social justice messages won't be prominently displayed when the 2020-21 season begins. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver says the league will depend upon its teams and players to deliver those ongoing messages largely outside of the playing arena. Silver said it's a conversation that will be held between the league and its players before the next season commences in a few months.
"I would say, in terms of the messages you see on the court and our jerseys, this was an extraordinary moment in time when we began these discussions with the players and what we all lived through this summer," Silver told ESPN's Rachel Nichols before Game 4 of the NBA Finals."My sense is there'll be somewhat a return to normalcy — that those messages will largely be left to be delivered off the floor.
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