But Jordan did not say this — PolitiFact found no news reports, interviews or statements that the basketball star called for athletes’ medals to be taken away, nor has he condemned kneeling during the ...

As both teams lined up on the third-base line and the crowd rose to its feet for the playing of the national anthem before ...

one would be hard pressed to find a crowd singing along in full to the U.S. National Anthem five years ago. Such a move was socially unacceptable. Kneeling, too, was a prominent reaction.

Joel Embiid and Bam Adebayo - took part in kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice; Stephen Curry took part in 2021, hours after the Capitol riots. Upon doing so ...