NBA Twitter Destroys James Harden For Wearing A ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Mask

by Len Werle 4 years ago

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NBA Twitter Destroys James Harden For Wearing A ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Mask

Houston Rockets superstar James Harden has successfully gone trough his quarantine and was able to join the rest of the team in the NBA Bubble for his first Orlando practice yesterday.

But while being able to walk around campus for the first time since his arrival, the pictures of Harden that were used by the Rocket’s social media team went viral – unfortunately for Harden and the team, the vitality of the post wasn’t for positive reasons.

Harden was wearing a ‘Blue Lives Matter’ mask and while I doubt he knew what the mask symbolizes, NBA Twitter ripped him over it anyways.

https://twitter.com/HoustonRockets/status/1283931715082293249

NBA Twitter is going crazy after James Harden was spotted wearing a Thin Blue Line Mask pic.twitter.com/2h1aCCBK4c

— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) July 17, 2020

James Harden has entered the chat. pic.twitter.com/d99Jz7gSrF

— Ken Glizzy Jr. (@JamesDGrambo) July 17, 2020

Why diversity matters – I'm going to assume that neither James Harden nor the Rockets social team understand the significance of the "thin blue line" flag and how it's regarded as a symbol of hate and is anti-BLM.

How this post makes it through approvals is beyond me 🤦🏽‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/wT5rFHg4l7

— Azad Yakatally (@AYakatally) July 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/GarrettFitzsim1/status/1283950465122738176

https://twitter.com/sporker_/status/1283939474372788226

James Harden loves cops pic.twitter.com/mL8NHkULD9

— rodeo jones (@boatss) July 17, 2020

James Harden supporting cops isn’t surprising when you consider his game is based on authority figures making judgment calls

— Geb (@gebguddaye) July 17, 2020

https://twitter.com/WhattUpJT/status/1283942677692723200

https://twitter.com/lakurnashun/status/1283951901155917825

https://twitter.com/Hou5ton4L/status/1283946178565091333