Wow crazy he got a fine for the tweet

Ok, so a fine of that size won't kill him, but neither should it. I think its appropriate.
Gleeson got $500 for pushing Bogut, so I think the scale is substantial enough.

Backbone by the League? They handed out a substantial fine, over comments on twitter. Personally I'm surprised and gratified they went that far.

I'm not sure what kind of punishment people were expecting. Did they want him and his progeny for the next 10 generations banned from all basketball for life or something? The guy made some clearly inappropriate comments on Twitter. They were comments that were not particularly open minded and seemed more of a stab at the Perth Wildcats being proud of their history than anything particularly racist. But fair enough, he made an inappropriate comment on a touchy subject and he's been punished in a measured and reasonable way.

"Does it feel like the NBL really showed any backbone by strongly condemning his remarks? Absolutely not."

Once again, not sure that the comments need to be burned into history with the NBL's strong and overblown 'condemnation'. He made a dickhead comment. That is literally all that happened here. He didn't call for another stolen generation or something.

Not sure why that tweet deserves a sanction?

Not sure his criticisms where of the artiest of aboriginal people/persons at all if you look at what he actually tweeted.

The League did enough to show they disapproved of his comments in my opinion

Guess paul won't have as much Lunch money for Friday’s usual long lunch.

"They didn't condemn the remarks"

They fined him $2.5~5k for the comments
What did you want, a public flogging?

Haven't paid that much attention, looking at the blokes twitter account, definitely one of the weirder blokes rolling around.

That picture with hutchies face wtf.

It seems like the gripe here is that the design of Perth's top reflected its success/number of championships, effectively "gloating"?

Putting aside a reasonable argument of "who cares if they wanted that in their design", most tops have some sort of fluffy representation of the club, iconic city reference, and a reference to the native people? How dissimilar is Perth's top really? I can't imagine that much!

I believe the 36ers was "strength", Torrens River, Kaurna People as their main reference points in the art.

Adelaide's jersey also had an Eftpos logo on it.

No Perthworld smart arse replies in here.?

'After the Kings' loss to the defending champions last week, Smith claimed Perth had used the jersey to promote the club's on-court history.'

... "using the guise of indigenous (sic) cultural engagement and reconciliation to promote 9 championships, 33 finals appearances and a heavy travel schedule on a singlet".

'The Wildcats later condemned the comments over the jersey as offensive and disrespectful, prompting the NBL to investigate the matter.'

"The Wildcats believe the comments have unfortunately tainted the inaugural NBL Indigenous Round, in what has otherwise been a significant step forward in the journey of reconciliation for clubs and fans."

'The NBL ruled Smith's tweets had breached the league's code of conduct, however the Kings owner has until next Tuesday to appeal the decision.'

Lots of opinions over this incident, I have just pasted the tweet itself and what happened to trigger this action, it appears very sad that the ignorance of how such comments can be hurtful to indigenous culture is still evident in our society. That said, perhaps now is the time to continue educating our community about the Australian indigenous culture more than we are doing, especially where recent policy appears to preference protecting religious dogma ahead of our culture and history...

I think there are too many politically correct muppets here.

His comments weren't derogatory towards Indigenous peoples. He was critical of the artwork, and the Perth organisation. If it was Disney round, and he made a comment about the jersey would the same response ensued?

Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with disliking an artwork, it happens every day in galleries. If you like aboriginal artists, go and buy one of their works like I did and put your money where your mouth is. They need your help to stay afloat more than your help to make a multimillionaire pay a $2500 fine.

You're a moron, the comments are culturally insensitive basically telling an indigenous elder their own interpretation of indigenous culture coupled with the Wildcats success was in actual fact not indigenous. You're the muppet.

I don't get why people bother bating this type of personality, if someone is stubbornly ignorant:

1) They won't stop doing what they're doing, that's how stubborness works; and
2) They don't have it in them to think things through properly, that's how ignorance works

The two characteristics go hand in hand. The moment someone prefaces an argument "political correctness muppets" just need to wash your hands and say that this person is a lost cause, the prevailing educated mainstream will kick them to the corner where they can shout at brick walls while everyone else keeps on moving forward.

@RealityCheck, the following words were used in the tweet: 'using the guise of indigenous (sic) cultural engagement and reconciliation'

If it was just about the colours or the art work as you have blurted, I would immediately relate to it.

However you appear to have either completely missed the point of the issue or you are just as plainly ignorant as he apparently has been posting it!

If he had only said he personally didn't like the colours or the design, no one would care, but he was explicit in his wording, care to re-read it perhaps.........