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NBA players boycott playoffs after police shooting of Jacob Blake; All three playoff games cancelled Wednesday
CNET ^ | 08/26/2020

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."

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: basketball; blacklivesmatter; blackthugsmatter; blm; boycott; jacobblake; nba; searchandfind
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To: SeekAndFind

Phuck the NBA! BTW, what is the NBA?


101 posted on 08/26/2020 5:26:30 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


102 posted on 08/26/2020 5:27:27 PM PDT by John Locke Forever (nba)
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To: cgbg
"Imagine if a black astronaut on a Mars mission decides to go on strike because of a “racist incident” back on Earth...." Leave without him. On Mars.😎
103 posted on 08/26/2020 5:27:36 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: SeekAndFind

Officials at the Nigerian Basketball League were not available for comment.


104 posted on 08/26/2020 5:28:01 PM PDT by technically right
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To: SeekAndFind
The only people who are going to miss the games are the bookies. No one else gives a damn. Even the gamblers will find something else to bet on tonight.

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.

105 posted on 08/26/2020 5:28:10 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SeekAndFind

What next, they’ll hold their breath until we care??


106 posted on 08/26/2020 5:28:37 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: SeekAndFind

the inmates are running the asylum


107 posted on 08/26/2020 5:40:53 PM PDT by Lockbox
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To: SeekAndFind

Cut off your nose to spite your face


108 posted on 08/26/2020 5:41:15 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: dp0622

Pro sports, including NASCAR, are dead! Save golf & hockey.


109 posted on 08/26/2020 5:41:21 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA & NASCAR! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Cancel their whole f#*kin’ league! Who cares!


110 posted on 08/26/2020 5:41:32 PM PDT by con-surf-ative
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To: SeekAndFind

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?


111 posted on 08/26/2020 5:41:39 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: SeekAndFind

NBA? Who is that?


112 posted on 08/26/2020 5:41:46 PM PDT by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: SeekAndFind

Will anybody notice?


113 posted on 08/26/2020 5:43:22 PM PDT by laweeks
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To: DAC21

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.


114 posted on 08/26/2020 5:45:07 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: SeekAndFind

Playoffs? Didn’t know, don’t care.


115 posted on 08/26/2020 5:45:28 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: SeekAndFind

Midnight Bball flops again.


116 posted on 08/26/2020 5:45:52 PM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: Alberta's Child

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.


117 posted on 08/26/2020 5:46:18 PM PDT by dynachrome (The panic will end, the tyranny will not)
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To: DAC21

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.


118 posted on 08/26/2020 5:46:43 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: outofsalt

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


119 posted on 08/26/2020 5:49:29 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: llevrok

I can’t believe there is something I agree with this CCP-loving, Anti-America group. How about canceling the whole NBA?


120 posted on 08/26/2020 5:50:19 PM PDT by Choppo
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