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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NBA is alienating its white fans. They may get away with it in Portland and L.A. but that stuff isn’t going to fly in Middle America. It’ll be interesting to see how Oklahoma City, Indiana, Utah teams all do in a year from now.
this is perfect! NBA has now subjected itself to an infinite amount of similar extortion in the future!
Boycott Basketball and make these dummies work real jobs for a living - like something that requires brain talent and ingenuity (not that they’ll qualify).
Seeya
Enjoy your summer
Do not bother coming back
Oh noes, MLB won’t play to a empty stadium for a game that no one is watching.
They should televise a game with a bunch of old white farts. Skins and shirts.
because of sports betting. I watched a kid in his 20s from Illinois win over a million bucks a couple of weeks ago on Collin M winning a golf tournament
I dont watch thugsketball
Or thugfootball
Or thugbaseball
nba players encouraging resisting arrest, getting unruly citizens paralyzed from the waist down or killed, doesn’t seem very productive.
Homey be ballin fo free soon, he just doesn't know it yet.
Good!Let them close down the league.The quicker the letter. Let them be good social justice warriors and basketball be damned.
So now the looters can use the arenas for midnight basketball!??
How can we miss you when you won’t leave?
Basketball is the one with the big orange ball, right?
Are they basketball players or community organizers? Professional sport is over.
Their ratings are in the toilet anyway. This will not help.
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