The NBA Require Players To Stand While The US National Anthem Song

The NBA Require Players To Stand While The US National Anthem Song - The NBA players are obliged to remain standing when the national anthem of the United States echoed before the game. The regulation was submitted to the 30 NBA clubs so that implemented without exception.

This memo, according to the ESPN report, sent by the deputy commissioner of the NBA Mark Tatum (29/9/2017) on Friday night local time. The memo indicated that the League has a policy to discipline players who break the rules. According the NBA rulebook, players have to stand up when the national anthem is song.

In that memo also mentioned the NBA will decide how to deal with the possibility of a player, coach or club officials did not stand up when the national anthem was song. Participant teams the NBA does not have the authority to override this rule.

Tatum suggested that each team made efforts in the first cage match in order to overcome the political climate in the United States. One of its efforts by asking the players or coach gave a speech before the game to fans.

Memo from Tatum is a 24 hours after NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expressed the hope that the players could remain standing during the national anthem is song.

"We have a rule which obliges players to stand when the national anthem is played," said Silver of New York.

The NBA took action emphatic reserved liability stand when the national anthem was song for fear the left-handed will follow some NFL player (American Football League) who chose to kneel when the American national anthem was song.

Incidentally the NBA clubs will again make it to the start this weekend with the beginning of the match pramusim. There are two matches held Saturday (30/9/2017).

The action of the knees was first done by NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick as a form of protest over racial injustice and police brutality in the United States.

Previously only a handful of NFL players who are doing the action of the knees. But since President Donald Trump gave a scathing response, more and more players are doing the action of the knees.

More than 200 players (mostly black) performs a similar stunt. Even 99 percent of the players club the Pittsburgh Steelers american football American vote remained in the locker room when the American national anthem was song. Only one player who was in the field. The NBA seems to not want it also occurred during the competition season 2017-2018 rolling on October 18.