Has nothing to do with political correctness, which means being polite.
I'll have to respectfully disagree with you here.
Ironically, saying political correctness is "being polite" is a politically correct way of looking at it.
Political correctness isn't about being polite. It's about forcibly shutting down opposing opinion, especially if that opposing opinion offends you.
For Bilas, this was all about the women refs. That's it. The rest is just surfeit that he's throwing in to try to build the mountain on top of the mole hill.
The truth is, most NBA players and coaches would prefer not to have female refs. Same goes for every major men's sport. And most every player and coach would like to say that publicly, but they can't, because they would be blackballed, lose money, lose their jobs, and so on.
What bothers Bilas about Ball is that the guy is untouchable, and can't be controlled.
Think about it. Jay Bilas' comes to the conclusion that he's "done" with L. Ball. So what does he do? He writes an article all about L. Ball and then publishes it for millions to read. Does that sound like "done"? Sounds more like "stalking" than it does like "done." The point of the article wasn't that Bilas was "done," the point of the article was that it was a hit piece that was intended to try to get other people to be "done" with L. Ball. In other words, Bilas was not only not "done," he was specifically NOT done and specifically still involved with the intention of damaging L.Ball's popularity/notoriety. Bilas is a liar for presenting his hit piece as some sort of public announcement of his doneness.
I could not care less about L. Ball the man. But I love L. Ball the in-your-face, not backing down public character who can get away with saying what a lot of people are thinking.
I happen to agree with Jay on the female ref issue - refs should be judged on how well they ref, not how they look. But, unlike Jay, I have no desire to PC people into silence to further my position on that.
Regarding Kapernick, I love that situation as well. What you have is a renegade man of color stirring the equality pot, thereby causing a decrease in revenues in the NFL, which means he is taking money out of the pockets of his black peers in the NFL, as well as the white owners. What it's doing is forcing to the forefront the racial divide between pro athletes and the people who watch them. He's off the reservation, and he can't be controlled either. And I love him for that. Just like L. Ball, however, I happen to think his assessment of the facts is rather shabby, but I wouldn't let my disagreement with his conclusion impact my appreciation of his willingness to speak plainly.
What's most interesting about the Kaepernick situation is the dichotomy of silence that has cropped up all around him. Couple black guys knelt with him. What were their names again? Not in the same universe as brave as Kaep, who had to have known his career would be shortened/lessened by his decision. They're not in the headlines. Other than those guys, what about the hundreds of other of millionaire blacks in the NFL? Silence. Or, maybe a tweet of nominal support. And most of those guys probably completely agree with Kap and his message. But the money. Oh the sweet money. It's buying their silence.
And the owners? You know they want to to publicly blast Kap and throw him out of the league. But they can't. Because they don't want to risk losing the fans who support him or who would rally to his support if the owners did anything overt to injure Kap's career. The money. It's just as sweet to them.
So there's a black man with funky hair who is the white elephant in the room and the white owners and the black athletes are tip toeing around him and avoiding eye contact and hoping it will go away so as not to upset the apple [money] cart.
And I think it's beautiful.
