No national anthem at Mavs game

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If the national anthem is going to be this political football I don't think it's worth having it at games. We don't have to have the anthem at every sporting event especially leagues that have a ton of games. In the NFL its nice bc you can usually get someone pretty good.

Since we have to kneel to be cool I'd rather just have no anthem at all and find some other non-offensive way to say what they want to say. Players and coaches already have a lot of messaging on their warm-ups which I think is fine and more effective anyway (and less annoying imo).

It doesn't seem "cool" in the least to me, and nobody should be pressured to kneel for our national anthem(Charles Barkely said precisely that, live on TNT last season).  It just seems ungrateful for all the freedom and opportunity this country currently affords us.  Has there been terrible injustice in the past?  Of course, but don't obsess about things that occurred decades or centuries ago, to the point that it becomes counterproductive to being able to take advantage of the great current opportunities which are available to you as a US citizen.  The future is wide open, go for it.  Don't listen to anyone telling you that you can't succeed in today's society because of the "man" holding you down.