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At a time when the NFL is facing a Deshaun Watson defense that the league is tipping around around franchise-owning oligarchs, the NBA has taken a very different approach to owners ’discipline.
Through ESPN, the NBA on Wednesday fined Warriors owner Joe Lacob $ 500,000 for uttering two words. (Not these two.) He called the league’s luxury tax system “very unfair” during a podcast appearance.
The fine stems from the fact that the comments refer to ABC talks with the NBA Players Association. And, in fact, the NFL has shown a willingness to hit homeowners who speak in a bewildered manner when it comes to the effort to avoid showing any weakness to the union.
In 2010, the NFL imposed a six-figure fine on Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for comments about revenue sharing before the close of 2011.
Still, 12 years later, the NFL has chosen to overlook the apparent fact that the Cowboys did not report a possible violation of personal conduct policy in 2015, stemming from the cheerleaders ’voyeurism scandal. Similarly, it looks like the NFL won’t investigate the situation now, choosing to let it go (and hopefully the public will continue) instead of exploring questions about who knew what and when they knew about the secret video recording. of the cheerleaders who were. change clothes, if it really happened. (The Cowboys paid $ 2.4 million to resolve the situation with the cheerleaders in question.)
How can the NFL reconcile its aggressive pursuit of a one-year suspension of Watson with not even bowing to the seven-year news that emerged in February about the misbehavior against women within d one of the most popular franchises in the league? He can not. He can’t, so he hasn’t even tried. He was just looking the other way, confident that the fire would go out quickly if The Shield supplied him with neither fuel nor oxygen.
It’s sad, but it’s effective. How much can be written or said about the situation if there is no news? And if the league decides to ignore it completely, the league will not contribute to the creation of these developments.