It’s too late for professional sports to recover from this because they have shown us where their loyalty lies, essentially telling the people who keep them in business, us, that we don’t matter. They think they’ve slowly trained us to accept being disrespected, so our “resistance” must be a head-scratcher for them. It’ll be interesting to see how they try to pivot from this and where they’ll pivot to. Now that they’ve shown a criminal segment of society they’ll cater to their every whim, this will never end. The ref makes a call they don’t like: racism. The coach doesn’t give them enough playing time: racism. They don’t get endorsement deals: racism. They get drug tested and it comes up positive: racism. They can’t shank the opposing player during the game because he’s better than them: racism. They can’t assault the opposing fans rooting against them: racism. They can’t rape the cheerleaders: racism. The owner won’t change the name of the team to suit them: racism. You take a segment of society who aren’t the best at taking responsibility for their lives, give them an excuse and woke society’s approval for using it, and you have our present situation.