Mark Cuban chimes in on Trump and #TakeTheKnee: 'Don't accept donations from athletes'
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on Sunday defended football players who kneel during the national anthem out of protest after President Donald Trump said NFL teams should fire them.
Football teams snubbed Trump this weekend -- some in written statements and some on the field. Several NFL owners championed their players' rights to express themselves, and in some instances, athletes and coaches linked arms on the sideline as The Star-Spangled Banner played.
Cuban, the billionaire in charge of Dallas' professional basketball team and an outspoken Trump critic, joined in support of the athletes, whose movement has been dubbed #TakeTheKnee on Twitter.
Several NFL players, starting last season with then-San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, have knelt, sat or raised fists during the anthem to protest police treatment of blacks and social injustice.
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