I used to spend a good chunk of dough a couple of times a year to sit courtside at Suns games.

No mas.

Shut up and play you morons, you’re a frickin basketball team not political pundits.

Well, if Steve Nash is against it, that’s the last straw. We MUST repeal the law. Hey Steve, a majority of AZ’s support the bill. I saw boycott the team.

it will be interesting to see if speaking out against the law affects ticket sales, and if it does, if they shut up.

hey Sara, welcome back! Long time no see!

Steve Nash is Canadian ! Why is he talking about “a bill that really damages our civil liberties”?

What do the Mexican-American NBA players have to say about the law? Oh, wait….

Nash…a bill that really damages our civil liberties”

Not to be unfair (or too unfair) but my hunch is that Nash believes that the police can just stop people walking down the street at any time and demand ID. And if they don’t have it, they go to jail.

Of course none of that is true.

There’s legitimate opposition to the law but the media’s coverage of the actual wording has been very poor. Too bad the folks at Mediaite haven’t called them on it.

Can’t wait to see the brawl this is gonna start.. People get your cameras ready.. LOL

You mean Eduardo Najara, Righter? I’ll ask him for you…

Please do boycott the Suns if you can’t put your extreme partisanship aside. I suspect you’ll boycott the NBA in general. Billy Hunter firmly stands by the Sun’s decision and will likely present a league-wide stance.

tws258, Steve was born in South Africa, is a Canadian citizen, but lives here in the US (Phoenix/New York). I wasn’t aware that if you weren’t actually a citizen, yet lived here legally and paid taxes that you couldn’t voice your opinion. Thanks for the heads up!

tjl says:

“Please do boycott the Suns if you can’t put your extreme partisanship aside”

Right back atcha ! You know that whole voice your own opinion thing you talked about .
Feel free to climb down off your soap box now hypocrite .

Isn’t Nash a Canadian citizen? As such, he’s required by US federal immigration laws to carry ID with him at all times.

That’s what the Arizona law will, implicitly, require. If you’re here legally, carry some ID when you go out.

Anyway, whether you agree with the Suns decision or not, don’t you feel a little uneasy about a business putting pressure or asking their employees to support a political cause? If the owner of the Suns supported the Arizona laws and asked his players to wear uniforms that endorse that legislation, that would be inappropriate too.

It seems to me that this is going down a quite slippery slope.

Adding to my point: Yes, I understand that none of the players “objected” to the decision (not objecting is quite different than endorsing, of course).

But what happens if one did? Or several? Or that while they opposed tha law they thought it was not an appropriate action.

Yes, the Suns’ management apparently has the right to do this (assuming it doesn’t violate league rules) but the question is whether it’s the right thing to do.

SteveMG asks ” but the question is whether it’s the right thing to do.” Of course not, it’s the progressive thing to do. For them (progressives) being right has absolutely nothing to do with anything.

” tjl says:
May 5, 2010 at 11:21 am

You mean Eduardo Najara, Righter? I’ll ask him for you…

Please do boycott the Suns if you can’t put your extreme partisanship aside. I suspect you’ll boycott the NBA in general. Billy Hunter firmly stands by the Sun’s decision and will likely present a league-wide stance. ”
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I assume you are much more perturbed by the coordinated boycott Beck/FNC movement and also consider it “extreme partisanship”.

Glad to see a fan favorite in Phoenix and the NBA is speaking out against the racist teabaggers in this country. The TNT post game show had a nice segment on this and TNT color team denounced the racists as well. There is a ground swell against the despicable racists that infest this country.

Please do boycott the Suns if you can’t put your extreme partisanship aside. I suspect you’ll boycott the NBA in general. Billy Hunter firmly stands by the Sun’s decision and will likely present a league-wide stance.

tws258, Steve was born in South Africa, is a Canadian citizen, but lives here in the US (Phoenix/New York). I wasn’t aware that if you weren’t actually a citizen, yet lived here legally and paid taxes that you couldn’t voice your opinion. Thanks for the heads up!

Yes, is allowed his opine. Just as we are. And since we can’t get on on TV to voice it, we will not pay to see him play. Do you see how that works?

. says:
May 5, 2010 at 12:12 pm
Glad to see a fan favorite in Phoenix and the NBA is speaking out against the racist teabaggers in this country. The TNT post game show had a nice segment on this and TNT color team denounced the racists as well. There is a ground swell against the despicable racists that infest this country.

Seriously, Dan it is you, right?

They should change their name to: Los–ers. How pathetic of them.

The TNT post game show had a nice segment on this and TNT color team denounced the racists as well.

Wow MichelleF, that was quite a surprise.

BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD!!!

Keep politics out of sports. Keep politics out of sports. Keep politics out of sports!!!!

Last thing we need is to be politically correct on sports blogs. I still like to be able to say “white men can’t jump” without being branded a racist…

(ps..referring to woody harrelson / wesley snipes movie)…

Interesting ERSPN poll…http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/fp/flashPollResultsState?sportIndex=frontpage&pollId=90481

The father of the Suns’ owner made much of his fortune in hotels, which is a business that thrives on cheap unskilled labor. So, massive unskilled illegal third-world immigration is great for the capitalists; but it’s not so great for the American workforce, whose fight for a living wage is undercut under the constant stream of cheaper workers, and whose kids must attend the public schools forced to educate the children of illegals. So, to Dems: illegal immigrants = more government-dependent voters = more Democrats; to the big business right: illegal immigrants = cheap labor.

We are truly screwed on all sides here. Perhaps if Steve Nash and the owners weren’t so damned rich, they might truly understand why this law exists.

after his suspension the last time he commented on what someone was wearing – if I was Tony – i wouldnt be sayin’ a word!

Sean68 does speak what is said by most working class americans..

cant deny this is true.

now what?

Leave it to the Repunks to stir up something this childish & ridiculous. You go, Little FanPeople. Other nations strive for intelligence and progress. Murcuhns do THIS!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=118943561461846&ref=ts

What a moron. Hey, Canadian Steve, why don’t I send you the 750 million dollar bill that Arizona has to pay every year to educate illegals in our schools system. Oh, and I’m sure you won’t mind picking up the est.10 million that our local hospital spends treating illegals at our local hospital here in Southern Az.. You’re a rich athlete-you could single handedly solve the whole ‘police state’, ‘raping civil rights’ prob we Nazi Arizonans have..overnight!

I heard an excellent suggestion from a caller on the Rush show today.

He was perplexed why the Suns didn’t carry thru all the way with the symbolic gesture and waive the “papers” that they collect for admittance, parking, food and drink etc. Although he didn’t mention this I think it is a great opportunity for the players to waive their papers (salary) for the symbolic event and donate the money to relief charities for immigrants.

Hey, they could do it for every home game or at the least the first game in every home series. Just think of the good they could do while making a really loud put your money where your mouth is statement.

grammie, another interesting suggestion I ran across was this. All the different cities who have joined a boycott of Arizona because of their deep deep concern for the welfare of illegal aliens should show their support and solidarity by accepting them immediately in their own communities. Arizona (I think) would gladly pay the illegals transportation to say San Francisco, L.A. etc…

Put your money where your mouth is lefties, save the illegals and OPEN YOUR HOMES!

In his efforts to see racism everywhere, I think tjl missed the satire. You see, tjl, most Mexican Americans tend to be short, and most NBA players are very tall, and….oh, never mind.

Nachi says:
May 5, 2010 at 3:35 pm
Leave it to the Repunks to stir up something this childish & ridiculous. You go, Little FanPeople. Other nations strive for intelligence and progress. Murcuhns do THIS!

Wait, did we stir it up or did Nash, I’m confused.

Now Phil Jackson could be called the Reasonable Lib,(sorry RL)

Jackson had campaigned for Sen. Bill Bradley in 2000 and donated to the Obama election campaign, but he argued, “I don’t think teams should get involved in the political stuff.”

“I think this one is still coming out to the balance in how it’s going to be favorably looked upon in our audience and our public,” Jackson said. “If I heard right, it’s that the American people are for stronger immigration laws if I’m not mistaken. Where we stand as a basketball team, we should let that play out, let the political end of that go where it’s going to go.”