Which statement best describes how the First Amendment is implicated in the following situations: a radio talk show host is fired by the XYZ Radio Network for racist and homophobic statements; a baseball club owner is required by the American Baseball League, a private association, to temporarily relinquish her seat on the Board of Directors for statements endorsing Hitler; a basketball player in the National Basketball Association $($NBA$),$ a private organization, is suspended by the NBA for refusing to stand for the national anthem due to his religious beliefs:

In each case, unprotected speech was involved, so there are no First Amendment violations.

In each case, a court woulduse the strict$-$scrutiny analysis and declare First Amendment rights have been violated.

Because commercial speech was involved, a court would use the intermediate analysis to decide if first amendment rights were violated.

First Amendment rights are not involved in any of these situations.