Highlights:   “Virtually everyone’s at home, so you would think that the NBA season would be a record year for ratings. And not just that, but these are the woke NBA Finals… These are the woke games.” “It’s no coincidence that the more woke the NBA goes, the more audience they lose.”  “The whole point of a National Basketball Association or a National Football League, or Major League Baseball, is to foster a sense of national unity.” ‘‘Scholars have noticed that sporting events have the capacity to help undermine civic nationalism by expressing ethnocentric loyalties.” “We’re seeing a very clear escalation of this propensity to use civic national rituals to protest and dissent and demonstrate against the nation embodied by these civic national rituals.”   Timestamps:   [03:08] The NBA Finals and their ratings while everyone is at home [04:29] The backlash against all the wokeness in professional sports  [08:33] On the worst-ratings ever of NBA [10:13] NBA’s love for China and the purpose and history of national professional sports events [11:15] The major issue in professional sports    Resources:   SPORTS HAS A PROBLEM…BEING WOKE AIN’T HELPING by Phillip Stutts Do you want to become a Turley Talks Insiders Club Member? Join here!   Download your copy of the “Fake News Antidote” Ebook here!  Get Dr. Turley’s Book Bundle Offer: 5 of his best-selling books at 50% OFF  (Limited time offer only!) Click here! Thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode.  If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and/or leave a review. Do you want to be a part of the podcast and be our sponsor? Click here to partner with us and defy liberal culture! If you would like to get lots of articles on conservative trends make sure to LIKE Dr. Steve Turley’s Facebook Page and sign-up for the 'New Conservative Age Rising' Email Alerts.