Which 45 NBA players are R*publicans (

sry to #onethread in the glorious hoops board that i invented but i came across this and i was *fascinated*

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https://bsky.app/profile/votehub.com/post/3mcv6g7237b2s

according to this data, 10% of the nba are the worst. who do u think is out there plotting against most of their teammates?

bonus open parenthesis 4 u punctuation fans

you know there have to be some players who are just interested in staying as rich as possible and that makes them obvious GOP material

theres a few fundamentalist weirdos like j isaac, too

53.7% seems low for MLB ngl

Let’s get the list going here (purely speculative - some have hints in their past or out there on the interwebs, some just have off vibez…)

1. Jonathan Isaac
2. Michael Porter Jr
3. Christian Braun
4. Mitchell Robinson
5. Kevin Durant
6. Kyle Kuzma

7. Zach Collins

Feels like we’re at a low point for high profile ones… at various points in the last decade you’d have Meyers Leonard, Spencer Hawes, Andrew Bogut, uuhhhh Royce White

luke kornet is super catholic, but he gets along well with teammates that leads me to think hes not a judgmental freak about it

kyrie is politically incoherent, hes probably cool w rfk jr tho

gotta think cooper and kon, too. i mean at what point does the question become "which white nba'ers are NOT republican", harder to tell with the players who started their careers after the blm message jerseys

Feels like we’re at a low point for high profile ones… at various points in the last decade you’d have Meyers Leonard, Spencer Hawes, Andrew Bogut, uuhhhh Royce White

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, January 21, 2026 6:07 AM (forty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

enes freedom kanter and gordon hayward, too!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2020/07/30/what-message-nba-players-will-wear-on-back-of-jerseys/5536311002/

mason plumlee had "peace" hmm

I would have said Chris Paul but he's not an NBA player anymore

🙄 I know ilxors are very sophisticated political thinkers, but Chris Paul has done stuff with Michelle Obama

cp3 may not be a republican, but I hope we can all recognize that he’s a spiritual republican

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2020/07/30/what-message-nba-players-will-wear-on-back-of-jerseys/5536311002🕸/

I’m having major emotions looking back at this list, and just feeling perversely nostalgic. can you imagine what it would take right now for a major sports league to engage with politics like this today. Have the wolves done anything to address what’s happening in Minneapolis?

lol i forgot about 'education reform'

Anyone who had ‘education reform’ is at best highly suspicious to belong on this list. The Morris twins? Makes sense!

I’m a little confused by Garrett Temple tho, since he must be some amazing locker room guy to have hung on in the league for so long (he’s still an nba player!). but he’s on team education refo. A conundrum.

the Wolves held a moment of silence for Renee Good

Wolves hold moment of silence for woman killed by ICE officer - ESPN https://share.google/hvT7kWrvTJVcnQHpG

they are wearing some kind of "positive message" shirts I'm spacing on what the say, kind of the classic vague message thing

they did tell a fan to remove an ICE OUT shirt but then the fandom was so pissed they issued a public apology

Finch said this
“As we all know, our community has suffered yet another unspeakable tragedy,” Finch said ahead of the game. “We want to just convey our condolences and heartfelt wishes and prayers and thoughts to the families and loved ones and all of those that are greatly affected by what happened.”


so about par for the course for pro sports I guess

condolences and heartfelt wishes and prayers

sounds straight out of the _mass shooting response handbook_

hmm par for the course i suppose but that is a pretty lame "republicans buy sneakers too" statement by Finch

sadly compared to some of the other inflection point moments they don't have nearly the same leverage to do anything right now. those BLM jerseys were like a perfect storm because it was peak COVID and the players had a unique say in whether they would play and under what conditions. that said, i had sort of forgotten about this:

On Aug. 26, the Milwaukee Bucks made the biggest statement by opting not to play in a playoff game against the Orlando Magic in protest of the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin. The rest of the NBA teams still participating followed suit – as did teams and players in other sports – and no NBA games were played for three days. After a tense meeting involving players and coaches, the majority vote was to resume play with a renewed focus on voting and pushing NBA governors to use arenas as polling sites for the Nov. 3 presidential election.

very difficult to now how you would translate that to the current moment though, in large part bc there is 0 chance anyone at ICE or in Washington would even listen or compromise. you might find some hills worth dying on, but just know you're gonna die on them

[i'm aware this is all my own fanfic... just feeling mighty depressed about our failed country atm]

I guess I meant par for the course for pro sports as mediocre at best

also just living in Minneapolis right now the Timberwolves response to this is like 10,000 on my list of things to worry about

tryin to remember when exactly it was but one of the Bucks players got roughed up by a cop in a Walgreens parking lot who obviously didn't know who he was

yeah i totally get it ums, that makes sense.

luke kornet is super catholic, but he gets along well with teammates that leads me to think hes not a judgmental freak about it

― cam'ron winter (m bison), Wednesday, January 21, 2026 7:49 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

luke is extremely liberal coded i would be shocked

an extremely liberal catholic is not a contradiction in terms, in spite of what certain American catholic bishops want you to think

terry rozier prolly thinking about becoming a republican right now if he isn't already one

Haha yup good call

A good chunk of the nba is under 24. My politics around then were solely based on legalizing weed

lets see here...

miles bridges?

Think we found one

Detroit Pistons Superstar Caris LeVert on the recent ICE shooting in Minneapolis:

“Let’s just wait for all of the evidence to come out before jumping to conclusions.”

Wait it might be fake dammit hope it is my bad if it is

Kon follows the Babylon Bee on IG haha

guilty

Wait it might be fake dammit hope it is my bad if it is

carisis leverted

hahaaaa

Kon follows the Babylon Bee on IG haha

― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, January 25, 2026 4:11 PM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

im not exaggerating, i am so glad hes gonna waste so many years in charlotte

xp I have to credit it to a member of this board, who used to have it as their sn… bise?

it was in fact me

one of the great puns of the 21st century. if levert never contributes to a championship team he can take solace in the knowledge his name inspired that pun

an extremely liberal catholic is not a contradiction in terms, in spite of what certain American catholic bishops want you to think

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, January 21, 2026 3:52 PM (five days ago)

i was raised liberal catholic, otoh i was also raised liberal democrat so

great graph, my takeaway is that people should watch women's sports instead of men's sports

also i wonder if there are stats for MLS players

i suspect mls is p conservative, at least the us-based players. not quite mlb levels, but def more than the nfl.

also

my takeaway is that people should watch women's sports instead of men's sports

otm

there is a long-standing rumor (which, tbf, might hold as much weight as JD Vance couch-fucking, i.e. a joke), but people keep suggesting Matt Miazga was at Jan 6th

i believe that if he was not there physically, he was probably there spiritually which is a crime in the biso administration

*bison, goddamnit

I know that actually expecting 0% GOPs in the WNBA is far-fetched, but I'm still a little surprised that there's any red in that chart.

a thing about pro athletes is they're young, you might be a 5-star recruit but if you grew up in a MAGA home and then went to a big fratty red state school where practicing for your sport is basically your whole life, you might not have had much opportunity to develop any individual political beliefs. not trying to make excuses for anyone, but i can see where even a wnba-er with that background is gonna identify with what they grew up with. also many register to vote when they turn 18, still at home under parents' roof, it must be a seriously transgressive act not to register as an R for some

i dont really care if a athlete is maga, i mean i could see getting kind of riled up about it if they made some dickhead post or whatever but if they keep to themselves and keep the dunks coming who really gives a shit theyre just some guys who happen to be famous because theyre tall

im down w that, i think the question is what environment are they most likely to shut up and dribble and i'd say it's when most of you co-workers would give you shit for saying something

i wonder if the nba is at that point remember years ago there was a story of some clippers going to spencer hawes house and he had obama face toilet paper and they were just like ok wow but i dont think they were really mad at him generally it seem like with sports teams theres an agreement to leave that stuff at the door, but things are more serious now so idk

which isnt to say im not interested in investigating which ones they are, kon babylon bee instagram tip was top notch stuff

I randomly saw an instagram reel about which nba players were republicans like a day before this thread was created and they pointed out that kon had some dubious follows. Figured I'd give it a once over to see if anything caught my eye. If these fellas are to be believed he used to follow Candace Owens but I didn't see anyone on that level in there. Mostly just barstool people, Rogan, Theo, etc.

yeah could just be a dumbass

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Let’s get the list going here (purely speculative - some have hints in their past or out there on the interwebs, some just have off vibez…)

1. Jonathan Isaac
2. Michael Porter Jr
3. Christian Braun
4. Mitchell Robinson
5. Kevin Durant
6. Kyle Kuzma

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, January 21, 2026 7:04 AM (one week ago)

"If you spending $3K on a meal, you shouldn't have to tip $600" – Michael Porter Jr. on why NBA players shouldn't tip 20% (https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/spending-3k-meal-shouldnt-tip-211400055.html)

heh

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7082061/2026/03/02/magic-city-luke-kornet/

why is KD on the suspected republican list?

Luke Kornet's blog does indeed come off as very liberal-coded, he's citing Stephen Colbert as his biggest writing influence in 2026

yeah these are not republican arguments against a one night collaboration with a strip club including a hoodie available for purchase, and some of the club’s well-known wings will be served — including the lemon-pepper wings named after former Hawks player Lou Williams

“Allowing this night to go forward without protest would reflect poorly on us as an NBA community, specifically in being complicit in the potential objectification and mistreatment of women in our society. Regardless of how a woman finds her way into the adult entertainment industry, many in this space experience abuse, harassment, and violence to which they should never be subjected.”

it is honestly pretty edgy behavior for a pro sports team, i know magic city has a huge place in the atl music scene but it is still nevertheless a strip club, i do support them in this one night collaborative promotion but i also respect luke as a nice religious man objecting

i think hes mostly right even if i think the collab is funny

peoples reactions to it are quite funny to me.

When I heard about this yesterday I was astounded that a collab night with a strip club was even a thing???

apprently the owner of the team financed a documentary about magic city and its importance to alanta rap music which is honestly a fascinating topic i should watch the doc got swept up in how cool it is and decided to do the collab

or maybe hes just promoting the doc idk

When I heard about this yesterday I was astounded that a collab night with a strip club was even a thing???

― hat stays on (gyac), Wednesday, March 4, 2026 12:45 PM (nineteen minutes ago)

welcome to atlanta...

hard to remember there being more discussion about a single atlanta hawks regular season game, the atlanta hawks in general so i'd consider it a smashing success, luke kornet becoming the friend who got too woke aside

saw a comment about this that david stern would never let this happen and that is 100% correct. silver has def let the rope go on branding and brand perception.

nba in its slop era

i think i'm sorta missing how this is bad or incongruous for the NBA... there was a whole news cycle where people were celebrating lou williams breaking quarantine to go to magic city for some wings

idk if this particular incident is bad but i do think the general pattern of careless in regard to the brand is bad, endless shitty alternate unis random cross promotions in game gabling ads all ads up to seeming very messy and cheap

oh well i think all of that is true but i don't think it's relevant to a team doing "xyz night" at the arena, teams in all sports have been doing stuff like this for decades? i mean yes this one is somewhat controversial but i don't really buy the idea that it's bad for the nba in any way shape or form

what's bad for the NBA is that the games happening across the league right now are so meaningless that this is actually registering as one of the biggest stories in the league

i agree that thats the worst, but i do think its all related, no ones watching the shop

yeah just another thing to throw in the pile

what's good for the nba is that luke kornet exists!

(even if he's been slightly surpassed in my heart by neemias queta)

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from Sunday's game between the Indiana Fever and the Chicago Sky after a verbal altercation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud.

Kanter Freedom was sitting courtside in a black T-shirt that read: "WOMAN noun. adult human female." During a timeout late in the third quarter, Cloud began walking toward Kanter Freedom and shouting at him. He was standing with his arms outstretched and stepped toward the court before security cut him off and directed him to leave.

In the wake of Fever guard Sophie Cunningham's comments regarding transgender athletes that started a national debate, Kanter Freedom, who played 11 years in the NBA, declared himself eligible for the WNBA draft, saying he identifies as a woman. Another former NBA player, Royce White, did as well.

The collective bargaining agreement signed in March states that "only players who are women are eligible to play in the WNBA." There is no further definition of a woman, and the WNBA has no publicly available policy governing eligibility of transgender or intersex athletes.

Kanter Freedom responded to Sunday's ejection in a social media post, writing, "I just got kicked out of a @WNBA game for supporting WOMEN! Let that sink in, AMERICA!"

Knew he was a douche, didn’t know he’d gone full terf

what a shithead loser

i’ll grant him the t and the e, not the f though

more penis anti freedom

more LIKE

goddamn im starting to lose my middy

welcome to atlanta...

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, March 4, 2026 12:06 PM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink

smh i cant believe i didnt say "where the players play" goddamn turning 40 sucks

I know that actually expecting 0% GOPs in the WNBA is far-fetched, but I'm still a little surprised that there's any red in that chart.

― Major Kirascuro (Leee), Monday, January 26, 2026 11:34 AM (six months ago) bookmarkflaglink

guess this mystery has been solved

Knew he was a douche, didn’t know he’d gone full terf

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, August 23, 2026 11:18 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

he was cozying up to establishment dems back in the day trying to get them to take out erdogan, he seems to have gone influencer mode at this point

this guy sucks