Guess again.
The NBA constructed a bubble to keep the coronavirus out. It couldn’t do anything about real life though.
Now, in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the entire NBA playoffs are teetering as players are rising up by sitting down, refusing to serve as society's entertainment while they feel threatened, hopeless and angry.
They aren’t going to shut up, and for now they aren’t even going to dribble. At least not while emotions are raw, the opportunity is rare, and the belief they can do so much more than just be basketball players is at hand.
It started Wednesday afternoon, when the Milwaukee Bucks chose to walk out of their playoff game against the Orlando Magic. Bucks players were reportedly in the locker room trying to reach the attorney general of Wisconsin.
That decision set off a string of discussed strikes that led to postponements that wiped out the entire slate of Wednesday’s NBA games (Oklahoma City-Houston and the Los Angeles Lakers-Portland).
No basketball on Wednesday. No one should count on Thursday. Who knows when it returns, if at all, in 2020?
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