Posted on 08/26/2020 4:41:20 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
NBA teams are boycotting their playoff games to protest the police shooting of 29-year-old Jacob Blake, who is black. Black Lives Matter protests have surged across the US once more this week in response to Kenosha, Wisconsin, police paralyzing Blake by shooting him in the back seven times on Sunday.
The boycotts began with the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday in their game with Orlando Magic.
"Some things are bigger than basketball. The stand taken today by the players and org shows that we're fed up," Bucks Senior Vice President Alex Lasry, who is the son of Bucks owner Marc Lasry, tweeted after news of the boycott began to spread. "Enough is enough. Change needs to happen. I'm incredibly proud of our guys and we stand 100% behind our players ready to assist and bring about real change."
The Bucks boycott was followed by tweets from several high-profile NBA stars, with the Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James, Denver Nuggets' Jamaal Murray and Utah Jazz's Donovan Mitchell demanding change and justice.
The Bucks players are staying in the locker room trying to reach Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, reports The Athletic and Stadium's Shams Charania. Magic responded saying it stands with the Bucks and with all NBA players and the league "in condemning bigotry, racial injustice and the unwarranted use of violence by police against people of color."
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Ratings suck so no one will miss the games....
This is just fabulous. Now will they go away?
Keep it going!!!!!
Boycott the rest of the playoffs!!!
Good. Now I can’t even accidentally watch this awful ghetto garbage!
My give a **** meter is below zero.
So?
Haven’t watched an NBA game in over a decade.
Lol
Good now more viewers flr the RNC tonight
Lot of tall people applying for jobs at McDonalds soon.
What playoffs?
LMAO
Much about absolutely nothing...
Correction, Most things are more important than basketball.
Will some BB fans watch the RNC instead?
Trump’s fault.
Cool. Since they will never be happy, they can strike forever.
That’ll show ‘em?
Geez. What am I not going to not, not do?
it has spread to wnba and mlb
some black dude walked out of sports center on TNT and it was hilarious to watch shaq and charles just still there
It’s not a boycott. It’s a strike.
These morons don’t realize you can’t really boycott your job.
Exactly.
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