Nba Boycott Blm

The nba will hold a league wide meeting on wednesday night after players opted to boycott a trio of playoff games to protest the police involved shooting of jacob blake according to a report.

Nba boycott blm. Featured columnist july 1 2020 comments. Brian urlacher takes dig at nba players over playoffs boycott upset fans say he missed the blm memo the former bears linebacker made a snide remark at the nba players boycott of games by comparing it to packers legend brett favre who starred for the packers in 2003 beating the raiders the day after his father died of a heart attack. The boycott of playoff games from the players is something that might seem unprecedented and while we haven t seen something quite to this scale in nba history it s not the first time players. League officials have invited all players to participate in the meeting inside the nba s bubble environment at walt disney world resort in orlando.

Many asked to boycott the nba and mlb as they found the kneeling disrespectful and also promoting a political agenda asking the leagues to stick to the game only. This includes the nba s idea to allow players to have messages related to blm and other social causes written on their jersey instead of their last names. Donovan mitchell rudy gobert fire back at fan threatening nba boycott over blm joseph zucker josephzucker. Melissa majchrzak getty images.

In addition to the three nba playoff games that were postponed following milwaukee s boycott multiple mlb mls and wnba games were put on hold as athletes voiced their anger sadness and. Saturday i watched the portland trail blazers memphis grizzlies play in game.