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Caffey, during a televised candidates forum, admitted he was a “not a man of many words,” but had some strong and controversial views on certain issues: He believes that if not economically feasible, Mobile doesn’t need to have Amtrak return to the city, and he also admitted to not being vaccinated.
Redick originally planned to bounce between home cities via Amtrak. “I’m all about public transpo,” he says. He rode the subway to summer workouts in Manhattan, scrolling through Twitter while zooming underground. He does not Tweet, but filters his feed for a post-training news source and feverishly reconnects his phone to the MTA’s free underground wifi when the train rolls into a station. But since joining the Sixers, Redick has only driven the 100-mile gap between his home and the facility. He commuted to South Jersey twice a week during September team workouts, checking off a lengthy to-do list on each leg of the journey. The lease on his Chevy Tahoe back in California wasn’t going to settle itself—so Redick checked it off his list while on the phone. “I will be hard in the podcast game, for sure,” Redick says.
Major companies such as State Farm Insurance, Kia Motors America, Virgin America, Red Bull, CarMax, Amtrak, Yokohama Tires and Corona, have in rapid succession, either suspended or ended their sponsorship deals with the Clippers. Businesses do not want to continue their relationships with the team owned by Sterling, at least until Silver takes decisive action. Many of these companies also have sponsorship deals with individual Clippers players. Most notably is State Farm, which will continue to run advertisements with star point guard Chris Paul. The insurance company will still utilize the brands of Paul and the NBA, and only disassociate itself from the Clippers franchise. This strategy, which also could pertain to Red Bull and Kia, if either company continues to use Clippers forward Blake Griffin for its commercials, may place the league in a delicate position.
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