It's a fine line you're walking, a very delicate balance, beating people over the head with the message, and holding out your hand and letting them see it in the palm of that hand. You know, you have to ask yourself how much of this needs to be shoved down people's throats and how much of this needs to be laid out for people to really examine and digest for themselves.

And I think that's going to be the same delicate balance

that has to be walked from now

until this restarted experiencing the bubble is over and beyond.

Thank you. Welcome to the Edge of Sports podcast.

I'm Dave Zyron.

This week we are talking to Seiku Smith from the NBA.com, trying to unravel and think about what we think of all the activism coming out of the NBA's bubble

right now, the taking a knee before the anthem, the names on the back of the uniforms.

Is this progressive? Is this radical? Or is this just woke marketing? I want to talk to

say cool about that. I'm wrestling with this myself. Also? I want to talk to Seku about that.

I'm wrestling with this myself.

Also, I've got some choice words about what's happening in the world of college sports.

Just stand up and just sit your ass down and more.

But first, let's go to Saqq.

I guess I wanted to ask your thoughts.

I mean, first and foremost,

when everybody takes a knee,

in your mind, does the gesture lose its punch?

No, I mean, it doesn't.

And I think everybody has their own individual ideas about how you express yourself at a time like this.

But the gesture itself, no, it doesn't diminish it, the impact of it or the optics for me.

What I worry about, Dave, is,

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