New Album & The Beginning of Basketball Season
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I didn't see this coming too though the news of to Raptors Celtics talks of boycott sounded worrisome. The players took a stand. And this is bigger than basketball. A strong , bold move that is well founded and hopefully will bring real change.
Steve Williams
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Steve Williams
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Steve Williams
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It’s good to see ownership and management standing united with their players.
http://app.info.la-lakers.com/e/es?...9a4b834553af1746bbafcfd4a7&elqaid=211&elqat=1
Steve Williams
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The world has clearly become a different place. Sports is a game we love but the boycotts are truly necessary
I have great respect for the NBA players in their quest against social injustice.
these young men make more in a month than most people make in a lifetime yet they fear living in America. Any how nuff said as we don’t discuss politics here Just a big tip of my hat
I have great respect for the NBA players in their quest against social injustice.
these young men make more in a month than most people make in a lifetime yet they fear living in America. Any how nuff said as we don’t discuss politics here Just a big tip of my hat
Steve Williams
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And here is an unbelievable gesture if true.
im blown away but again I salute the players
http://bleacherreport.com/post/los-angeles-lakers/76464f22-99b0-405c-aa08-ae1288d17b91
im blown away but again I salute the players
http://bleacherreport.com/post/los-angeles-lakers/76464f22-99b0-405c-aa08-ae1288d17b91
Even Kenny Smith had expressed himself.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29748662/kenny-smith-walks-tnt-nba-set-solidarity-player-protest
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29748662/kenny-smith-walks-tnt-nba-set-solidarity-player-protest
Steve Williams
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I did see that. I was surprised Shaq and Sir Charles didn’t leave
As we wait for the final announcement of the league, I got a light moment as I was reading one comment by some fan who said that the boycott or no show of the Bucks means the Magic just closed the series gap to 2-3. 
I can only remember 1 instance in a local college hoops league where one of the finalists chose to boycott the next games due to some technical calls unfavorable to them. The opposing school then bagged by title by forfeiture.
Another comment I read was that, Kyrie was right all along.
I can only remember 1 instance in a local college hoops league where one of the finalists chose to boycott the next games due to some technical calls unfavorable to them. The opposing school then bagged by title by forfeiture.Another comment I read was that, Kyrie was right all along.
Damn athletes brought politics into sports. Why I have not watched this year and will not watch professional sports. Sports were the refuge for so many from the BS of the world, a place where people could sit across the table from someone of opposing political views and never mention it. Lots of good natured heckling and shit-flipping between rival teams’ fans, then go home and see each other at the office the next day. I will miss the Seahawks and Blazers, but I get enough politics everywhere else.
(My only comment lest the moderators send me to solitary.)
(My only comment lest the moderators send me to solitary.)
Steve Williams
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can't disagree but the world is forever now a different place Bob
Steve Williams
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News out of LA this morning is that both LeBron and Kawhi have voted NOT to finish the season.
Steve Williams
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The end of the storm..........
Reports: Players decide to resume 2020 playoffs
Games could reportedly take place as soon as Aug. 28
NBA players reportedly decided Thursday that they want to continue the season, coming to that consensus one day after three postseason games were postponed in a protest of racial injustice.
It was not clear yet when the season would resume, according to multiple reports. Players reportedly are aiming to start games this weekend -- perhaps as soon as Friday -- but want to find new and improved ways to make social justice statements, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN and Shams Charania of The Athletic.
There reportedly is another meeting slated for Thursday that will involve two players per team to discuss ways to move forward on social justice issues, per Tim MacMahon of ESPN.
he NBA’s board of governors were meeting separately Thursday to decide next steps. There were three games on Thursday’s schedule, and the league did not immediately say if they would be pushed back. But with the players exiting their meeting around noon, and the first game of the tripleheader scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Eastern, it seemed most unlikely that the day’s slate would not be disrupted.
One potential remedy for the schedule, per reports, was to play the three games that were postponed Wednesday on Friday, and the three games scheduled for Thursday on Saturday, though that had not been decided.
Starting with the Milwaukee Bucks, who refused to take the court for their game Wednesday against the Orlando Magic, players from six teams made the extraordinary decisions to protest the shooting by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Sunday of Jacob Blake, a Black man, apparently in the back while three of his children looked on.
Kenosha is about 40 miles south of Milwaukee.
NBA players didn’t come to Disney solely for a restart to their season. They also wanted social reform, as did other sports leagues — many of which followed the NBA’s lead Wednesday by calling off games. Some NFL teams did the same Thursday, choosing not to practice.
It followed a similar pattern as what happened in March: The NBA was the first league to shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, and other sports followed then as well.
“The biggest thing that we all understand is if we’re not playing, what are we doing? What are we doing to show and to help what’s going on outside this bubble?” Boston Celtics forward Grant Williams said, shortly before the Bucks were scheduled to tip off their game against the Magic.
Instead, the Bucks players remained in the locker room, finally emerging hours later to read a statement demanding action from lawmakers and encouraging voting by citizens.
They changed the narrative across the entire sports landscape, putting the focus squarely on social justice reform in protest of the shooting of Blake.
While players and teams from baseball, the WNBA and MLS sat out their competitions Wednesday night, NBA players and coaches met for nearly three hours in a Disney hotel to determine next steps, including whether the season should continue. They did not come to a consensus, a person with knowledge of the meeting told AP on condition of anonymity because details weren’t revealed publicly.
More talks took place in the early hours of Thursday, followed by the player meeting that morning to decide to continue the season.
The Western & Southern Open won’t be played Thursday, with the U.S. Tennis Association, along with the ATP and WTA Tours, announcing play would be paused after two-time Grand Slam women’s champion Naomi Osaka had already said she wouldn’t play her semifinal match.
“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.”
Before coming to Disney, many NBA players wrestled for weeks about whether it was even right to play, fearing that a return to games would take attention off the deaths of, among others, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in recent months.
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.
It appears now they will find out if that’s the case.
Reports: Players decide to resume 2020 playoffs
Games could reportedly take place as soon as Aug. 28
NBA players reportedly decided Thursday that they want to continue the season, coming to that consensus one day after three postseason games were postponed in a protest of racial injustice.
It was not clear yet when the season would resume, according to multiple reports. Players reportedly are aiming to start games this weekend -- perhaps as soon as Friday -- but want to find new and improved ways to make social justice statements, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN and Shams Charania of The Athletic.
There reportedly is another meeting slated for Thursday that will involve two players per team to discuss ways to move forward on social justice issues, per Tim MacMahon of ESPN.
he NBA’s board of governors were meeting separately Thursday to decide next steps. There were three games on Thursday’s schedule, and the league did not immediately say if they would be pushed back. But with the players exiting their meeting around noon, and the first game of the tripleheader scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Eastern, it seemed most unlikely that the day’s slate would not be disrupted.
One potential remedy for the schedule, per reports, was to play the three games that were postponed Wednesday on Friday, and the three games scheduled for Thursday on Saturday, though that had not been decided.
Starting with the Milwaukee Bucks, who refused to take the court for their game Wednesday against the Orlando Magic, players from six teams made the extraordinary decisions to protest the shooting by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin on Sunday of Jacob Blake, a Black man, apparently in the back while three of his children looked on.
Kenosha is about 40 miles south of Milwaukee.
NBA players didn’t come to Disney solely for a restart to their season. They also wanted social reform, as did other sports leagues — many of which followed the NBA’s lead Wednesday by calling off games. Some NFL teams did the same Thursday, choosing not to practice.
It followed a similar pattern as what happened in March: The NBA was the first league to shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, and other sports followed then as well.
“The biggest thing that we all understand is if we’re not playing, what are we doing? What are we doing to show and to help what’s going on outside this bubble?” Boston Celtics forward Grant Williams said, shortly before the Bucks were scheduled to tip off their game against the Magic.
Instead, the Bucks players remained in the locker room, finally emerging hours later to read a statement demanding action from lawmakers and encouraging voting by citizens.
They changed the narrative across the entire sports landscape, putting the focus squarely on social justice reform in protest of the shooting of Blake.
While players and teams from baseball, the WNBA and MLS sat out their competitions Wednesday night, NBA players and coaches met for nearly three hours in a Disney hotel to determine next steps, including whether the season should continue. They did not come to a consensus, a person with knowledge of the meeting told AP on condition of anonymity because details weren’t revealed publicly.
More talks took place in the early hours of Thursday, followed by the player meeting that morning to decide to continue the season.
The Western & Southern Open won’t be played Thursday, with the U.S. Tennis Association, along with the ATP and WTA Tours, announcing play would be paused after two-time Grand Slam women’s champion Naomi Osaka had already said she wouldn’t play her semifinal match.
“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.”
Before coming to Disney, many NBA players wrestled for weeks about whether it was even right to play, fearing that a return to games would take attention off the deaths of, among others, Breonna Taylor and George Floyd in recent months.
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.
It appears now they will find out if that’s the case.
Elliot G.
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What a great sacrifice all these millionaires made! They took a day off! They still get paid, they still live in mansions, they still travel on private jets, stay at the Ritz and drive Rolls Royce's. So that solved Racism. Man I am relieved I thought it was going to be hard.
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