Nba Boycott Israel

The wnba has also postponed three games.

Nba boycott israel. Former president barack obama heaped praise on nba players for standing up for what they believe in on wednesday. Nba players have reportedly agreed to return to games after wednesday s boycott over the police shooting of jacob blake in kenosha wis on sunday. All three nba playoff games scheduled for wednesday night were postponed after players said they were boycotting over the police shooting of jacob blake a black man in kenosha wisconsin. As the association called off three playoff games as a form of protest over the officer involved shooting of jacob blake in wisconsin.

The move was celebrated by anti israel activists and picked up by the pro bds blog mondoweiss which stated that the decision came after a year long campaign by local activists to pressure the blazers to drop the sponsor so to the nba and all their outspoken woke players and coaches china is fine while israel is worthy of a boycott. The milwaukee bucks staged an unprecedented boycott over the police shooting of an unarmed black man on wednesday forcing the nba to halt its playoff schedule and. Sources told espn s adrian wojnarowski that the. Putting an even uglier polish on the nba s kowtowing to china is the news that the portland trail blazers recently bowed to the anti israel boycott divestment sanctions movement.

Israel adesanya stands with the milwaukee bucks and other nba players boycotting the playoffs. Covington the former ufc interim welterweight champion turned to twitter to criticize the nba and mlb for postponing games as it became clear that players were mobilizing to sit out games in protest of racial injustice and police brutality. Colby covington isn t happy about nba and major league baseball players taking drastic measures wednesday to protest the police shooting of jacob blake.