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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Phuck the NBA! BTW, what is the NBA?
If they really want to make a point they should just boycott the rest of the season. And next season. And the next. Then maybe they’ll be taken seriously.
Officials at the Nigerian Basketball League were not available for comment.
The NBA thinks it's cute blaming the Wuhanic Plague and fake racism for their financial decline that's been going on for over a decade.
The real sports are out on the streets anyway, streets like Portland where white Communist Democrat punks on skateboards play black Americans for fools.
What next, they’ll hold their breath until we care??
the inmates are running the asylum
Cut off your nose to spite your face
Pro sports, including NASCAR, are dead! Save golf & hockey.
Cancel their whole f#*kin’ league! Who cares!
Do these clowns still draw a paycheck when they refuse to play? If so, that’s one hell of a contract. Where do I get one of those?
NBA? Who is that?
Will anybody notice?
big talk from a man saddled by his own guilt that he projects on others in his ignorance.
or are you gender fluid? sorry if i made an ass-u-mption.
Playoffs? Didn’t know, don’t care.
Midnight Bball flops again.
Thanks. I had always thought they made a better bonus for playoffs.
Will their salaries continue if next season is cancelled or cut way back? Most of them blow their money and end up broke.
next time, try a little k-y. i’ve heard it helps for sensitive bottoms.
now you go away and don’t bother responding me again.
pussies all over, lol.
Ha ha.
Meanwhile, per usual, it sounds like Woj is the one with the real story (The players were tired of their time in the bubble in Orlando):
“The season is in jeopardy,” one veteran player told Adrian Wojnarowski.
Wojnarowski reports that “players were already worn out of (the) bubble environment prior to the Jacob Blake shooting.”
https://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/259348/Veteran-Player-The-NBA-Season-Is-In-Jeopardy
I can’t believe there is something I agree with this CCP-loving, Anti-America group. How about canceling the whole NBA?
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