In today’s NBA, beliefs can be a firing offense

There are plenty of things an NBA player can do and still keep his job.

League history is littered with examples: players involved in off-court scandals, arrests, even allegations of serious violence. Time and again, teams and the league have found ways to look past behavior that, in most professions, would be career-ending.

But there appears to be one line that cannot be crossed – especially during Holy Week.

That line, it seems, is expressing a traditional religious belief.