Hardwood floors and heels typically don’t go together but somehow NBA sideline reporter Kristina Pink missed the memo and took a nasty fall on Sunday at the Crypto.com Arena.

Of course, that rule got thrown out the window when entitled sports announcers began venturing onto the hallowed floor in their street shoes, let alone females in hooker heels.

The following was inevitable.

Pink was doing her due diligence interviewing L.A. Clippers shooting guard Amir Coffey after a game against the Atlanta Hawks. After her chat, Pink somehow lost her balance in black heels on the hardwood, slipped and came crashing down pretty hard. The cracking sound of Pink slamming to the floor emanated through the mics around the arena and shocked bystanders who quickly ran to her side to help her up.

“For everyone asking, I’m ok,” said Pink. “There was water on the court… Appreciate all the messages.”
— Black Enterprise, 1/10/22

Instead of suffering the indignity of having to wear more practical footwear in the future, what’s the bet that there will soon be a new NBA rule where special carpets have to be rolled out for announcers so wardrobe statements won’t have to be compromised?

In September 2015, police arrested Blake after he pulled a gun at a bar in Racine, Wis. He was charged with one felony count of resisting arrest and “one misdemeanor count each of carrying a concealed weapon, carrying a firearm while intoxicated, endangering safety-use of a dangerous weapon, and disorderly conduct,” according to the Racine County Eye.

A warrant was issued July 7 in Kenosha. According to Wisconsin’s circuit court records database, Blake has been charged with one felony count of third-degree sexual assault and two misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing. According to Wisconsin law, third-degree sexual assault can include nonconsensual sexual intercourse or other sexual contact.
— Politifact, 8/26/20

And what tripped the whole incident off?

The Kenosha News reported that a woman living in the 2800 block of 40th Street told police in May that Blake, her ex-boyfriend, had come into her home and taken her car keys and vehicle. She also said he had touched her sexually without consent. It’s not clear if the officers who arrived at an address in the same block shortly after 5 p.m. on Sunday were aware of those charges.
— Newsweek, 8/26/20

While this is not to imply he deserved to be shot, Jacob Blake is hardly worthy of civil rights icon status.

Blake’s shooting tripped off a collective major league sports kneejerk. Baseball, basketball, hockey and football franchises nationwide staged boycotts of games, practices and left sports fans on the lurch. Speeches and social media posts from players and coaches flooded the Internet and those who disagreed were shunned into pitiful little children, begging for forgiveness.

One impassioned speech illustrated why some should speak about that which they either know or can relate to.

Let’s look at some of what Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers said.

What stands out to me is just watching the Republican convention and viewing this fear, right?

It’s not clear how much of the Republican convention Rivers actually watched, but it was a celebration of the United States of America, all we can be, and the ramifications of the civil unrest that’s occurred with select pushback in many American cities. The result is billions of dollars of public and private property damage, disruption of public movement, dozens (if not hundreds) of police and civilian injury and death.

The convention also gave voice to some directly and adversely affected by the “mostly peaceful” violence. If the truth is what Rivers considers “fear”, he has a right to his opinion.

All you hear is Donald Trump and all of them talking about fear. We’re the ones getting killed. We’re the ones getting shot. We’re the ones that are denied to live in certain communities.

President Trump talked about the need to restore law and order back onto our streets so people feel safe in their communities. Yes, “we’re the ones getting killed. We’re the ones getting shot” but I can’t remember when Doc Rivers last gave an impassioned plea for black people to stop doing the killing and shooting in Chicago, New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, New Orleans, Baltimore, etc.

We’ve been hung, we’ve been shot.

Mostly, by Democrats.

All you do is keep hearing about fear. It’s amazing to me why we keep loving this country and this country does not love us back.

Going into the 2019-20 National Basketball Association season, the Los Angeles Clippers paid their players a combined “guaranteed” $132 million, not including coaches and staff. Their highest paid player, Paul George, will receive over $33 million just this season alone. Doc Rivers is the second highest paid coach in the NBA with an annual salary of $10 million. Seems to me this country could “not love” those people for a whole lot less.

Rivers made this partisan so if he’s talking about black people not being loved back as a whole, he should take an honest look at the communities where they live and who’s been running them for more than half a century. Can’t blame the lack of opportunity, decent schools, high crime, poverty-level housing and more honestly on Republicans.

Under President Trump economic policies, black unemployment hit historic record lows and it didn’t even require knowing how to rap or shoot a basketball. If that’s not love, what is?

It’s really so sad. I should just be a coach and it’s so haunting, reminded of my color. It’s just really sad. We’ve got to do better. We’ve got to demand better.

Democrats have consistently taken the black vote for granted, reigned on election promises made, leaving signature misery in their wake. In 2016, Donald Trump asked for black support, got some, and made good. Maybe Doc Rivers is making a “demand” to the wrong people and is too political to acknowledge the one man who actually kept his word to all Americans.

It’s funny, we protest and they send riot guards. They send people in riot outfits.

Maybe “we” should stop burning, looting, and assaulting. Then there would be no need for “riot guards”.

They go to Michigan with guns and they’re spitting on cops and nothing happens. The training has to change in the police force.

That made no sense.

The unions have to be taken down in the police force. My dad was a cop. I believe in good cops. We’re not trying to defund the police and take all their money away. We’re trying to get them to protect us, just like they protect everybody else.

If you watch that video, you don’t need to be black to be outraged. You need to be American and outraged. How dare the Republicans talk about fear? We’re the ones that need to be scared. We’re the ones having to talk to every Black child. What white father has to give his son a talk about being careful if you get pulled over? It’s just ridiculous.

Most people, when being pulled over for anything, are respectful and obey the police officer’s requests. It’s only when some decide it’s okay to mouth off, and/or take things to a physical level with law enforcement that bad things happen. White fathers have no problem conveying such logic to a son. Then again, maybe too many black sons (including many players on Rivers’ team and around the NBA) don’t have a father in the home to deliver structure and common sense discussion.

Then again, given the makeup of recent “mostly peaceful” protests, conversations with white daughters are long overdue.

Breonna Taylor, no charges, nothing. All we’re asking is you live up to the constitution. That’s all we’re asking, for everybody.

Taylor was killed amidst a shootout in the apartment where she lived. Drugs may have been involved. Again, another innocent black person being killed by police but with shady shit clouding it all. Law-abiding black people, for the most part, live higher than the national mortality rate for the demographic. That is, unless they get assaulted and robbed by a young blacks in the neighborhood.

Until people like Rivers denounce the rampant crime we see video clips of almost every day in the black community, it’s an invitation for law enforcement intervention. What happens after that becomes fodder for the opportunist and there sure are a lot of them.

There was a report that prior to the start of the Los Angeles Clippers-Cleveland Cavaliers game, Holtkamp’s name was announced with fanfare unheard of for a rookie ref, so this was about political correctness from the start.

While Chris Paul’s comments were something you don’t say today in a hypersensitive media climate, we all know that telling the truth can get you in more trouble than pointing out an uncomfortable truth. Especially when that same Chris Paul led the team revolt against former owner Donald Sterling, words can come back to haunt and he should know that better than anyone.

UPDATE: Chris Paul fined for calling out ref
Chris Paul: It was about a bad call

Chris Paul has been fined $25,000 for his public criticism of Lauren Holtkamp, the first-year referee who called a technical foul against the Los Angeles Clippers star point guard earlier this week.

So, if anyone criticizes Holtkamp, they’ll be fined and she knows it. It’s not fair, but political correctness was never meant to be.

NBA investigates alleged racist remarks by Clippers’ Donald Sterling

Not excusing what he said at all, but “girlfriend” Vanessa Stiviano was clearly keeping the conversation going while she knowingly recorded it for future use.

I wonder what could have set this off…?

Just speculating here, but it sounds like a young woman who needed some move-on money and look who she hashtagged…

#TimeMagazine #LATimes #LosAngelesTimes #NYTimes #NewYorkTimes #TheWallStreetJournal #TheNewYorker #NewsWeekly #TheNewYorkBestSellers #Crown #Publishers #Publishing #RandomHouse #CNN #ABC #NBC #CBS

Hmm… not Fox News?

And suspiciously, both V. and an acquaintance she mentioned have put their Instagram accounts on “private”.

And as the loony left is trying to tie Donald Sterling to the Republican Party in the Twitterverse, know he’s donated just $6,000, with no activity since the early 2000s. Sterling supported Gray Davis (D) as well as Bill Bradley (D), and since when would the NAACP take money from someone in the GOP?

V. Stiviano is clearly a product of our fame-for-no-reason culture and using “looks” to get rich is a tried-and-true tradition in Hollywood. She will probably have a very hard time finding a rich man now, then again considering her skimpy attire, it’ll be easy to see if she’s wearing a wire.

As for Donald Sterling, stay away from loose women and black people. All these former players and rap artists Tweeting their outrage: I’d love to hear what we’d come up with if we could secretly tape a bunch of black liberals in a room and savor the racism!

Oh, and “TMZ Sports”…?

Puh-leez.

UPDATE

Wife Of Clippers Owner Sues Woman She Alleges Had Affair With Her Husband
Sounds like Vanessa Stiviano needs a $1.8 million cash infusion, quick.

We do know that the woman on the tape — who we believe released it to TMZ — is the defendant in a lawsuit brought by the Sterling family, alleging that she embezzled more than $1.8 million, who told Mr. Sterling that she would “get even”.
— Statement from Donald T. Sterling and the Clippers organization to TMZ Sports

Rochelle Sterling further claims Stiviano had Donald gave her a $1.8M duplex (8837 W 4th St, Los Angeles, CA 90048), $240K in cash, two Bentleys, a Range Rover and a Ferrari. All cars were worth about $500K.

Could THIS be why the conservation was recorded and released to TMZ and how long before we see Gloria Allred out front on this?

UPDATE

If you listen to parts of the deceptively-recorded audio of Vanessa Stiviano and Donald Sterling, he’s clearly concerned about the pic she posted with Magic Johnson, NOT because he’s black, but because of the “call” he’d get from the “culture” that has problems with blacks.

I think it would be a given to ask Sterling WHO calls him and voices their Beverly Hills-Bel Air-Hollywood snobbish opinions about black people.

Of course, that’s NOT where the media will go because it could be very embarrassing to the Hollywood left for us to know just what they really think about blacks, especially those now piling on in group-outrage.

UPDATE

Spike Lee Slams Donald Sterling: ‘The Mentality of a Slave Master’
Flashback 2002: “I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.”
Flashback 2014: On white people, “I mean, they just move in the neighborhood. You just can’t come in the neighborhood. You can’t just come in when people have a culture that’s been laid down for generations and you come in and now shit gotta change because you’re here? Get the fuck outta here.”

NBPA’s Kevin Johnson calls for indefinite suspension, maximum fine for Donald Sterling
Flashback 2009: IG-Gate: ‘Hush Money’ Charge in Sacramento Mayor’s Sex Scandal Was Part of Probe
When Kevin Johnson, the former NBA star who is now mayor of Sacramento, was under investigation last year for alleged financial misdeeds and inappropriate behavior with female students, he had an important ally behind the scenes.Michelle Rhee, the nationally known education reformer who is now head of the Washington, D.C., public schools, had several conversations with a federal inspector general in which she made the case for Johnson and the school he ran in Sacramento, according to the inspector general. Rhee, who had served on the board of the school and is now engaged to marry Johnson, said he was “a good guy.”

Snoop Dogg Posts Profanity-Laced Message to Donald Sterling on Instagram
Flashback 2003: Snoop’s ‘Girls Gone Wild’ Go to Court
The hip-hop star (real name: Calvin Broadus), 31, allegedly offered a 17-year-old girl and her 18-year-old friend marijuana and Ecstasy to bare all for his camera during Mardi Gras in New Orleans last February, says Bay County, Fla., sheriff’s investigator Faith Bell.Regarding his decision to release his own “Girls Gone Wild” tape, Snoop told Newsweek: “Somebody gotta make (porn videos). … You can’t blame a Negro for getting paid, can you?” He has also said that he hopes to expand the genre’s appeal so that “Girls Gone Wild” will include more women of color.“If you notice, there hasn’t been no girls of (ethnicity) at all on none of those tapes,” he told the Associated Press. “No black girls, no Spanish girls … all white girls, and that ain’t cool, because white girls ain’t the only hos that get wild.”

Oprah: Remarks tied to Donald Sterling show ‘plantation mentality’
Flashback 2013: ‘Oprah’s a liar’: Sales assistant in Swiss racist handbag row denies telling TV host that she could not view item because she couldn’t afford it
Flashback 2005: Luxury store apologizes to Oprah
We have a pattern…Al Sharpton: I’m Organizing a Boycott If the NBA Does Not Suspend Donald Sterling TODAY
Flashback 2009: “Outraged” Again: Al Sharpton’s Long History of Racism and Vulgarity