Most of the professional sporting world went dark on Wednesday in wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake and subsequent violence that has followed in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The boycott began in the NBA when the Milwaukee Bucks, who’s home state is embroiled in chaos, chose not to take the court in Game 5 of their playoff series against the Orlando Magic. The other four teams scheduled to play sat out in solidarity.
The MLB was next to shut down their Wednesday games, led by the Milwaukee Brewers announcement to postpone. Pitcher Brent Suter, the player’s representative from the team, explained to reporters that not participating was “a collective Reds/Brewers decision not to play tonight to focus on our community hurting and the issues that are bigger than baseball.”
The WNBA postponed all three of the day’s games and Major League Soccer shut down five. To the dismay of hockey players, the NHL was the only league to maintain their scheduled meet-ups. “NHL is always last to the party on these topics,” Minnesota Wild’s Matt Dumba criticized.
NBA players took to social media to express their frustrations with the latest racial injustice.
For those who don’t understand what is going on, it will always be bigger than basketball! We demand change!!! We demand justice! Have a blessed day! ✊???
— Eric Paschall (@epaschall) August 26, 2020
WE DEMAND JUSTICE!!!
— Jamal Murray (@BeMore27) August 26, 2020
FUCK THIS MAN!!!! WE DEMAND CHANGE. SICK OF IT
— LeBron James (@KingJames) August 26, 2020
LeBron James’ voice rang the loudest: “F**K THIS MAN!!! WE DEMAND CHANGE.”
During an intense NBA meeting Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers announced they were in favor of opting out of the playoffs. During the informal vote, the rest of the teams decided to finish the season. James walked out, and every player from the Lakers and the Clippers followed, leaving analysts to speculate if the postseason would continue.
Thursday’s games are currently postponed, but a new report claims the season will go on. The playoffs may resume as early as Friday.
The NBA's players have decided to resume the playoffs, source tells ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) August 27, 2020
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I hope the stupid nba folds.
Good riddance of a bunch of over paid idiots who think because the can dribble a bb, they can control society…..f**k ’em!
They carry the ball and turn the ball over more than they dribble the ball .
Dang, I was sure hoping the NBA quit, and major league baseball can go to he!!, and now I see the NHL is gonna do the same so F them. When y’all are away I don’t miss you.
Who cares, let them go home and when their money runs out maybe they’ll come to their senses? Oh, and all the fools who continue to support these people time to rethink your values!
i think they should just shut it all down and then start over with tryouts and trading. get these sports teams back on track. they are athletes not politicians!
NO PLAY – NO PAY. CANCEL ALL THEIR CONTRACTS. BOYCOTT THE NBA!
AMEN, brother
END the NBA. Let these overpaid idiots form their own league with their own money which will go bankrupt in one year and then penniless they will be begging to citizens of the Country they hate to take them back. Then say ‘NO !’
There are too many libby snow flakes collecting welfare their entire life for the globalist puppet $oro$; nba and mlb and nfl to go bankrupt ?
End the NBA forever….
no big loss…
This is great news. Bankruptcy and closing doors can’t be too far behind.
End the season, nobody wants to watch these pucks. Not only are the players pucks, I personally will not watch or attend anything that displays the BLM terrorist logo. So much for the NBA, NFL, and much of the MLB.
Let them end the season. I doubt many people were watching them anyway. These people are so out of touch with the average American that it is astounding.
They don’t even wait to see what actually happened. When they do come back they will find much of their audience has moved on.
When they start protesting the Black children being murdered every week in Chicago by other Blacks then, and only then, I will care. If they don’t think ALL black lives matter and not just the ones they chose then, NO Black lives really matter to them.
So what have these NBA players doing to help the communities they expound on?! Are they helping with the funeral expenses?! Are they helping children left behind?! Have they set up any collage trust funds?! I THINK NOT!!!!
I found I could do just fine without sports during the COVID-1984 lockdown. These athletes are just making it too easy now.
Hopefully, the NBA will go completely out of existence. It would not be missed.
too bad they decided to resume. Ws hoping they’d learn what it is to be out of work and NOT paid
This isn’t hard to figure out. The NBA is hemorrhaging money, and those teams that are not doing well like lebrons will gladly stop the season to save face. There is hardly any NBA organization left. They bowed to the 2%, told the 98% to take a hike, and they are. Why organizations/companies commit financial suicide is amazing.
They can chuck the season for all I care. Next year and thereafter too. I do not like politics mixed with athletic events. I did not watch NBA games much in recent seasons but now I have absolutely no reason to watch any NBA game. Take their politics somewhere else along with their rocket high salaries.
Is this team going to be paid, although it refuses to play? Is the owner an idiot?
I say cancel all sports except golf and tell,players season is over and so are your salaries.
The change we need is to quit watching all these crybabies and paying them millions of dollars to play a child’s game. Grownups understand that America is NOT racist. 99% of police officers do a good job but they are not perfect.
Basketball players are self righteous hypocrites who are about to lose a large percentage of their fan base. Normal people wait to ascertain the facts before making a major decision,
The nba has been over many seasons ago, thanks to globalist puppet $oro$ and all his globalist puppet nba players .
Keep swallowing your libby snow flake males, swallow the globalist puppet $oro$, nba and nfl and mlb and you can make even more money .
Ahs makes 500 or mo peddlin azz on street corner. What you say?
Who freakin cares what these millionaire crybabies want…..
I quit watching a long time ago no skin off my back. How they gonna pay them anyway with no live gate no concessions sales? They could very well go broke? Live gate and concessions is their major source of revenue at least %50. How they gonna afford there multimillion salaries? My Mother always said don’t bite the hand that feeds you. They all biting the hand that feeds them greedy! We can live without them America was fine with no sports. Don’t really need sports anymore anyway.
If the NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB any any others didn’t eve play another game for the rest of my life I will not have missed a single thing. Them and their Hollywood counterparts bow to a very few thinking that they will appease them and somehow make everything OK. They do this all the while spitting in the face of the rest of the country, you know the ones that actually have a job and actually buy tickets to their games and movies and who support the sponsors who pay to put their games on TV. They would rather kiss the butts of less than 1% of America then to tell them to go to hell and stand with the 99% who are actually paying their salary. I am sure that by not buying the products that the companies who air commercials to pay for these games I will not make a very big dent in their profit margin, but at least I know that I am not contributing to these jerk’s pay checks.
FANTASTIC POST, and I AGREE 100%
I am glad to see this. One day the owners of these high dollar clubs will not have the money to pay these excessive pays and when the dollars are lost watch what happens. All of them are overpaid just like actors. By millions.
L.James is no genius, this whining overpaid,privileged,multmillionaire, has been whining for yrs, like he has been held back, from making them millions. Grow up, crybaby, u just bankrupt, the NBA, and were all going to watch, it collapse, then u will have something to cry about, u are all overpaid to play a dam game, yet piss and moan about everything, that was given u, by the American people.
You can take all these ghetto blacks out of the ghetto, but, you can’t take the ghetto out of them. They are who they are by choice & don’t deserve anything more than the rest of society. I’m dumbfounded that 98% of people are truly ignorant. You can have all the money in this world, but, if it isn’t handled properly, it will DEFINITELY disappear. It simply takes money to make money. One can’t keep paying these ghetto trash shit heads, while they decide to tell the rest of the world what’s going to happen. This won’t keep lasting. It has to end soon & it will. Have you read about 1,000,000 people who are preparing for a wipe out revolution. This was told to the city council just a week ago. Beware & be watching, because, Americans are sick & disgusted with this 3rd world behavior. See it on line….
You can teach a monkey to ride a bike but he will never invent one.
Why don’t these overgrown, overpaid ‘money-makers’ get on the court or field, play their silly games, and DONATE THEIR PAYCHECKS TO SOMETHING THAT WILL ACTUALLY DO SOME GOOD FOR ‘WHATEVER CAUSE’ THEY STAND FOR? Personally I don’t give a hoot if they ever play their games again (and loose all that money for those overpaid jocks) but do want all the violence, looting and destruction of businesses and people’s lives stopped – allowing our Country to get back to improving life for ALL American citizens and yes, IF proven that a cop, or anyone else, broke the law, let our Justice System do what it’s designed to do!!! JMHO
I say screw them. Close the whole damn season. We pay to see sports, not spoiled millionaires with perceived complaints pouting and posing. They have no relationship to the man on the street. Their incomes are far beyond their white (fans/oppressors). They, like the Hollywood air head Liberals, are paid to perform, nothing else. If they want to go into politics, go at it. You have ceased to be entertaining! Go home
I posted what the letters NBA stand for, but they deleted my post.
Nobody cares if the NBA ever plays another game as long as they keep supporting the marxist BLM. Lebron James can just go to China along with NBA and play their games over there.
YES!
I hope we will no see NBL any more. Done, forgot it.
hahahahahaha….. right wing and Trumpers SO triggered. Keep lionizing a 17-year-old murderer, while telling celebrities to stay out of politics, without realizing they worship a reality show host who’s the epitome of “coastal elite.” hahahaha
He defended himself against the trash ghetto, who we saw attack him. What you defend is criminals, who always have a criminal record a mile long. Must be just like you. Blacks of criminals flock together & defend crime. When will you ever learn?? If you live a life of crime, you will die by crime. There is NO OTHER RACE, only BLACKS who attempt to make angels out of black criminals, put hallos on their heads, burn down cities, loot, riot, harm innocent people, all for the sake of so called defending the blacks. When will you defend the millions of black babies who you murder all the time? Then you go to the streets to defend the black criminals. You are very selective whom you decide to murder, all the while screaming systematic racism. You fools don’t even know the definition of the term. Act & behave like normal human beings & you won’t have to cry fake racism all the time. Insanity is doing the same thing, over & over & expecting to get different results.
What no basketball, hooray!!!. Why complain, do something like interjecting the idea of staying within the law. If you make a spectacle of yourself you will be in harms way. Everyone that was shot was doing something wrong in the first place. You high dollar so call athletes should use your money and person to mentor these individuals on how to stay out of problem and do something constructive and to the benefit of others. Self indulgences on drugs, vice, and stealing is not legal. Help yourself, not hinder yourself.
Everything is Bigger than Basketball you fool.
I am tired of listening to the china supporting traitor lebron james and his loud mouth. I will Never watch that jerk play a game again. Be constructive, and be a part of the solution, not the problem. He is just another rich democrat trying to tell everyone else what to do with his freshly learned communist chinese tactics.
I want LOUD MOUTH, MULTI MILLIONAIRE F—–g JAMES to STFup! I’m so sick of him and his social justice dribble!
ALL THESE LEAGUES SHOULD FAIL! Who wants to watch these BLACK MULTIMILLIONAIRES COMPLAINING ABOUT ANYTHING????
Let it all go down in flames. Fans, use the time to do something productive, like spend time with your family and friends.
Just watched CBS THIS MORNING, they had some NBA player saying he’s for them playing. Their fans are telling them to SHUT UP AND DRIBBLE!
Bahahaha, I couldn’t believe that they actually put him on TV. Matters NOT to us and our family.
ZERO SUPPORT FROM US!
Who cares. these boobs are way over payed anyway. I’d rather watch my grand kids play sports as these whiners and traitors. Take your knees now and pray we come back when you want that bloated paycheck
Whats this. Not interested.
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