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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No paychecks either, right?
RE: There should be two leagues...a league for players that want to play, and a league for those players who don’t.
You won’t even be able to form a team for the former ( unless you want to watch one on one basketball ).
Lol!
When the NBA is finally gone, they’ll be missed as much as some extinct snake.
If they really cared they would just quit all together. Go ahead and forgo your paychecks and quit coward liars sex offender supporters.
Orange Ball Bad!
Well it turns out Jacob had a knife and the cops told him to drop it so then there’s that.
What did Forrest Gump say? Stupid is, as....you know the thing...
These NBA guys are dopes...on a sinking ship and punching holes in the hull...
Sad actually...
I will be honest. I didn’t realize it was the playoffs.
Used to watch every game. Haven’t seen on in years.
I didn’t get what the context was. What did he walk off about?
NBA f/&i!!!!!
Who are you to call for a Boycott. I’m boycotting YOU.
in solidarity of bucks boycotting the game due to the dude getting shot
Hold on to your jock straps - the Seattle Mariners have just voted and are refusing to play baseball against the San Diego Padres tonight for the same reason that the pituitary gland cases in the NBA have canceled their games.
This is why team owners are always looking to expand the playoffs to drive up revenue ... because it’s a lot of revenue without much cost for them.
One aspect of this that many haven’t thought of is the old Roman method of crowd control.
Bread and Circuses.
These guys are closing down the circus.That means a lot of rather excitable people are going to have nothing to do in a long hot summer. Revolutions have started over less.
whoa that is nekkid buttcheek cheeky lol
[It’s not a boycott. It’s a strike.
These morons don’t realize you can’t really boycott your job.]
SSSSssssshhhh! They’re on a roll!
Maybe just maybe NFL will join in? I really don’t see myself ever watching another NFL game again. Go ahead and keep kneeling, but your going to need another job to pay the bills.
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fires hurricanes civil unrest protest violence and tonite a political convention. i am sure these subjects will be added to the speeches. i hope i am way off base but if this starts boycotting for all sports i have no clue where we will be in a month. your thoughts.
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