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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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The players have a union. The league should tell them to play or go on strike. Then, if they strike, fire them.
“Ratings suck so no one will miss the games....”
Ding! Target hit!
Nobody is watching their crappy BLM hootchy-kootchy dance, so the black millionaires are looking for an excuse to bail out and avoid looking like a national embarassment.
Well, this is going to endear them to their fans even more, isn’t it? /s
butt i would encourage them all in their quest to be not seen and not heard— as befits their status as grade a arschloecher.
There is a song expressing that sentiment. From wife of the lawyer who was behind the lawsuit that spawned Erin Brockovich movie. btw, her son is a cop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXCLDj9tBBM
The NB who?
Dittos to that!
K. TY.
+1
So much hate; so little thinking.
Imagine if a black astronaut on a Mars mission decides to go on strike because of a “racist incident” back on Earth....
These NBA players do not understand the consequences of what they are doing....
NBA?
NBA?
WE DOAN NEED NO STEENKEN NBA!
Don’t pay them. No play = no pay
Hey don’t stop there just cancel it all
Are they eligible to apply for unemployment if they are boycotting?
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Airball!
Airball!
“NBA is full of pussies? who knew. what would wilt chamberlain say?”
Knowing his prowess, he would say where’s your wife? Thanks, now get lost.
When President Reagan was shot the NCAA still went ahead and played March Madness championship game before anyone knew if he’d survive the surgery.
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