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Lakers, Clippers Vote To Boycott NBA Season
The Washington Times ^ | 08/26/20 | Victor Morton

Posted on 08/27/2020 6:04:35 AM PDT by Enlightened1

The Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers, led by superstar LeBron James, reportedly voted to boycott the rest of the NBA playoffs.

According to Shams Charania, lead NBA writer for The Athletic, James walked out of a hastily-called players meeting when other team representatives said they would not join.

However, Mr. Charania reported, other players realize that even if just those two teams boycott the season, enormous problems would be created in finishing the playoffs.

“Sources: Miami’s Udonis Haslem spoke and essentially told everyone in room that — without Lakers and Clippers, how will season continue? LeBron James walked out. Rest of Lakers and Clippers exited behind him,” Mr. Charania wrote.

The Lakers and Clippers were the two best teams in the Western Conference during the regular season and were poised to win their first-round series in the next day or two.

However, all three of Wednesday’s playoff games were cancelled after the teams, led by the Milwaukee Bucks, refused to play because of the police shooting of a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

As a result, the players on all the teams in the “bubble” in Orlando, Florida, held a meeting Wednesday evening to discuss the next move.

According to Mr. Charania, James wants more social activism from the owners, who already have gone in hard in supporting Black Lives Matter and other left-leaning protest groups.

“LeBron James said in meeting he want owners to be more involved/take action,” Mr. Charania wrote.

He also reported that players on others teams who opposed boycotting the rest of the season thought the Bucks had put them in an awkward position without advance notice.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society; Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: boycott; clippers; lakers; nba; searchworks
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To: Enlightened1

Gaurenteed contracts. Get the money and stay at the mansion in the gated community while you cry about being oppressed.


41 posted on 08/27/2020 6:28:17 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Enlightened1

Once again proving how clueless they are. Now they’ve PO’d the last of the diehard fans, too.


42 posted on 08/27/2020 6:28:27 AM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Enlightened1
Black privilege on display. They carp about inequality and they're right. They need to transfer their multi-million dollar incomes to their less fortunate fellow blacks.
43 posted on 08/27/2020 6:28:36 AM PDT by Russ (I)
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To: Enlightened1

Basketball could disappear completely and hardly anybody would notice.

NFL - $13 billion - 267 matches
NBA - $4.8 billion - 1,312 matches


44 posted on 08/27/2020 6:30:46 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Enlightened1

Do they get paid?

Are they putting their money where their mouths are?


45 posted on 08/27/2020 6:31:37 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: shelterguy

Every single day was nonsense.
Only good days on the courts were mostly White with a couple older Black males (30-50 y/o)


46 posted on 08/27/2020 6:33:40 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Enlightened1

So this is a first. People boycotting themselves.

You can see a car lot: “No, I’m going to punish you by NOT selling you a car.”

Allllrighty then.


47 posted on 08/27/2020 6:33:48 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: Enlightened1

The best response that I can muster is: “Who f**king cares?”


48 posted on 08/27/2020 6:34:48 AM PDT by Howie66 ("Ghislane Maxwell Didn't Kill Herself")
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To: Enlightened1
lebrainless knows the league is going down in terms of viewship.

that's why he wants to bail.

49 posted on 08/27/2020 6:35:59 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Enlightened1

Who the hell cares!


50 posted on 08/27/2020 6:37:56 AM PDT by ballplayer (By)
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To: ealgeone

Lebrainless... Haha!

That’s great! I love it!


51 posted on 08/27/2020 6:38:46 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

An ESPN person, whom I had not known of previously, demonstrated why ESPN has now become far better known for politics than for sports. She called out the NHL for being the only sport that failed to stop to honor the Kenosha Riot. I, speaking for myself, raise a single finger to her. I invite all to guess which finger!


52 posted on 08/27/2020 6:39:23 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Enlightened1

The players calling it a boycott does not make it one. They are withholding their labor, not their money - the action is a strike.


53 posted on 08/27/2020 6:39:51 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: Vermont Lt

My cousin works for Fox Sports. He has had a rough time this year.


54 posted on 08/27/2020 6:41:01 AM PDT by Texas resident (Remember in November)
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To: Vermont Lt
I believe you're right that the NBA misjudged their profits versus expenses with the modified season and miscalculated how many fans would boycott watching the games. The league will use fake racism as an excuse to shut down their failed season and not face penalties on their television contracts or be found in breach of contract.

Cowards...every last one of them.

55 posted on 08/27/2020 6:41:26 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Enlightened1

Hope their paychecks are boycotted.


56 posted on 08/27/2020 6:43:01 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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To: Enlightened1

Cancel everything


57 posted on 08/27/2020 6:43:07 AM PDT by Rj Snows (Some years back Sacramento area used to be the capital of tomatoes)
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To: Enlightened1

America to NBA: “How can we miss you if you wont go away?”


58 posted on 08/27/2020 6:43:09 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They are openly stating that they intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live.)
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To: Enlightened1

Oh, that’ll really hurt us, won’t it?


59 posted on 08/27/2020 6:43:22 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: ballplayer

I think something funny would be for the owners to NOT renew their next players contract and contract with a hiring firm who holds a lottery in each city and picks 12 regular guys for 1 week from that city. Then each week 12 new players play. That way when OKC plays NY it really will be OKC vs NY, KInd of like the old old days.


60 posted on 08/27/2020 6:43:56 AM PDT by Undecided 2012
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