NO THUG-BALL CRYIN' TIME !
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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Playoffs? These assholes haven’t played but a few games!!
*****NBA f/&i!!!!!
Who are you to call for a Boycott. I’m boycotting YOU.*****
Would this be considered a Hegalian standoff?
LOL. If I walked off my job, it wouldn’t be there when I got back...BUT I’M “PRIVILEGED”.
Playoffs? These assholes haven’t played but a few games!!
NO THUG-BALL CRYIN' TIME !
I love a story with a happy ending.
Let’s hope the story continues.
Call hollyweird. Get them involved
“Correction, Most things are more important than basketball.”
You said it! Hit the bricks, go for a walk. Take your son into the backyard and toss a ball back and forth. Read a book or even better, do Bible study with your family. Go visit a patriotic memorial and remember the sacrifices of those who made your lifestyle possible.
Heck, spend that time to do an oil change on your car; you’ll know for sure the pan plug is in tight. Give the lawn a good going over. Listen to Rush Limbaugh while doing all these things and you’ll be far the better for it than glued to the idiot box watching resentful entitled behemoths dissing this great nation and ramming their “woke” views down your throat.
And if you run out of things to do, head for the range. Your family needs to know how to shoot, too.
#boycottNBA
new recruits!
Awesome list of options...
They can take their ball and stuff it where the sun don’t shine.
Here I thought they were boycotting the games because of the car dealerships that were burnt down and no one been arrested. Foolish me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zOKD2FhDRU
Tim Pool keeps asking if this story is a hoax. He can’t believe NBA players are this stupid. LOL
Hell !..I hope they go back to the hood they grew up in...they'd be killed in less then 6 months...The hood don't do “entitled” well...Look at the dead up and coming Rappers....lol
The NBA is boycotting themselves. Awesome.
NBA?
What’s an NBA?
Their ratings have been so poor, they were probably waiting for an excuse to put the season out of its misery.
Dodgers and Giants are apparently not playing/boycotting as well..
OH LORDY; I just don’t know what I’m going to do if I can’t see those guys hit a touchdown or the other guys shoot a home run.
Perhaps I will be saved by the guys on the field running for a 3 pointer.
Yeah; SARCASM, I really don’t give a shit about MILLIONAIRES playing KIDS GAMES!
“It was a different time, you understand....1957 or 1958!”
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