The court sits empty after a postponed NBA basketball first round playoff game between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Orlando Magic, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. The game was postponed after the Milwaukee Bucks didn't take the floor in protest against racial injustice and the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. -- NBA players didn't come to Disney solely for a restart. They also wanted social reform.
Later Thursday, the NBA's board of governors will meet and likely address whether the playoff games scheduled for the night will be played. The players also will meet separately to decide how long the stoppage lasts. They changed the narrative across the entire sports landscape, putting the focus squarely on social justice reform in protest of the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, while three of his children in his car looked on.
"I don't expect anything drastic to happen with me not playing, but if I can get a conversation started in a majority white sport I consider that a step in the right direction," Osaka tweeted. "Watching the continued genocide of Black people at the hand of the police is honestly making me sick to my stomach."
They ultimately decided coming to the bubble and playing televised games would give them the largest platform, though now at least some are wondering if that's still true. Toronto coach Nick Nurse said he's heard some players on his team say they were thinking about going home.His players considered boycotting a playoff game in 2014 after audio tapes featuring former owner Donald Sterling were revealed.
And it is for the Raptors, whose team president, Masai Ujiri, had an altercation with an Oracle Arena security guard after Game 6 of last year's NBA Finals. A video of it released recently appears to show a white Alameda County sheriff's deputy initially shoved Ujiri, who is Black, twice.
Cause of a guy with a knife who told the cops he was going to get his gun and then was reaching for his gun ......... Wow
So brave...so woke!!
Professional sportsmen and women are nothing more than a segment of the entertainment industry. They are paid by fans in return for their entertainment value. If they wish to share their opinion then they should take themselves elsewhere to do that.
This afternoon one of CTV's ditsy newsreaders, bdthomson I believe, actually asked one of her talking heads if he thought the NBA would suffer backlash from the fans if the players had gone ahead and played. The stupid bugger didn't argue.
No one cares
Why not report about how Jacob Blake, the rapist, was going for his knife and resisting arrest? Da fuck do you think the cop shoulda done you idiots? Also, don't forget they were called initially called cause he was beating around his lady. But hey don't actually look at facts
Do they get paid if they refuse to “work”?
And what exactly is that going to do
If I want to be lectured & bombarded with hypocrisy, I’ll turn on the news or watch a Trudeau presser. I went without sports since February....perfectly comfortable going without it for good.
Disgusting just keep pushing racism and will never get better.
Shame!
Politicize sports and watch it fall apart
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