An empty court and bench is shown before the start of a scheduled game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic for Game Five of the Eastern Conference First Round during the 2020 NBA Playoffs at AdventHealth Arena at ESPN Wide World Of Sports Complex on August 26, 2020 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.All three NBA playoff games scheduled for Wednesday will be postponed as players protest the August 23 shooting of Jacob Blake, the league announced. The games will be rescheduled.
"The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association today announced that in light of the Milwaukee Bucks' decision to not take the floor today for Game 5 against the Orlando Magic, today's three games – Bucks vs. Magic, Houston Rockets vs. Oklahoma City Thunder and Los Angeles Lakers vs. Portland Trail Blazers – have been postponed. Game 5 of each series will be rescheduled," the league said in a statement.
Blake, a Black man, was shot in the back at least seven times by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The incident has sparked protests in Kenosha throughout the week. Blake isThe NBA protest started when players from the Orlando Magic and Milwaukee Bucks did not take the court when their playoff game was scheduled to start at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.
Following the Los Angeles Clippers Game 5 win over the Dallas Mavericks, coach Doc Rivers also spoke on the shooting of Blake and current state of race relations in the U.S.
Who cares? I am protesting by refusing to watch a bunch of self-aggrandizing, self-praising millionaire hypocrites in the NBA making symbolic gestures without substance. The NBA can shut down forever as far as I'm concerned because they contribute very little to society.
Cancel the playoffs entirely. How can players even think of playing under these circumstances. Lebron for president.
Yawn
710KURV Hahahaha like anyone gives a shit about the NBA in their bubble protesting the shooting of a thug while they didn't care about the killing of an innocent 5 yo by a thug that's rich... Don't watch don't care they can double dribble all they want
Should we cry
No pay for the players. The cops had just cause for what they did he didn’t listen and reached in the car for what....
People may not want to hear this. But, if you don’t commit crimes and don’t resist arrest. Getting shot isn’t going to be an issue. The WI DA just announced he was armed.
Boycotting for a violent criminal pedophile that admitted he had a knife in his resisting the officers.
Yeah, no one cares! What about the little White boy shot in the head? No boycott over that.
Spoiled. Good luck getting your customers back
Boycott COMMUNIST CHINESE NBA! BOYCOTT until NBA is broke!
Rioting and loading is not way .YOU LIVE BY THE GUN YOU WILL DIE BY GUN !!!
lesliejosephs Nobody need a sports league that supports the Chinese communist party.
NBA is dying by suicide
Yeah no one cares
Good.
Who cares
I don’t understand how the boycott benefits anyone? What is the end game?
I salute the NBA basketball teams that interrupted the playoffs games because of the killings that occur by the police in the USA!
The police again showed how coward they have been by shooting the unamed citizens in his back. The worst was in front of his young children.
The country don’t care about NBA anymore! Go woke go broke!
The NBA happily plays games when white people are killed by BLM.
Who cares? The NBA is a racist anti American organization that should be boycotted and bankrupted.
SHUTDOWN THE LEAGUE! Watching it go under and smiling! Good riddance!
Looking for a way out with their awful ratings
Boycott there pay too!Why didn’t they cancel the GodDamn game when the 14 year old girl that got raped by the Black guy that was shot . Fuck him. He had A arrest warrant ,a knife in his hand he was not listening and he was going for something in his vehicle,shooting is justified
No one cares. The NBA is irrelevant!
Good. Make it permanent so those spoiled crybabies have to get real jobs.
Is anyone still watching NBA games?
Nobody will miss it!
Remind me again what they did to honor or protest the death of Cannon Hinnant!
Perfectly timed news afterhours... $DKNG $PENN
Thank you VP Biden for your input in calming the city of Kenosha, in these moments of chaos you have proven to be a great leader! BidenHarris2020
Cowards never speak for Hongkong.
Best news all day! Hope it is the end of their season.
No one was watching anyway, ratings were awful.
Hey NBA. Few people care now. Even less people will care next year. Your glory days are behind you because you have fallen into darkness.
'Millionaire basketball players collectively shoot themselves in the foot.' Wasn't watching before, still not watching now.
Ratings can’t get any worse than zero
Fantastic news.
Trump supporters complaining and saying this won’t help, I thought you didn’t watch NBA anymore