Lakers and Clippers vote to boycott rest of season

[brettdale]

Other teams vote to continue, more discussions tomorrow.

Seems like NBA season will likely be cancelled, other major sports may
follow suit.

The players are standing by what they believe in.

[msongs]

1. team owners will save a few bucks in that case nt

[brush]

4. Just the opposite. Millions in TV money will be lost.

That was the reason for the "bubble" and the games being played to complete the season and the playoffs.

The NBA has the best commissioner of all major sports, Adam Silver, who worked to help create the bubble, sealed off from the virus with a vigorous testing program, with tributes to the BLM movement on the court and player jerseys, but even he can't control a racist cop on the outside shooting someone in the back seven times.

Many players, in solidarity with their community, have decided to not play so what we are witnessing is an unprecedented and historic boycott of games. My hat is off to the players.

[Captain Zero]

7. How does Vegas feel about it?

Might be another question.

[yuiyoshida]

14. OH you are RIGHT , THIS is the first Year the RAIDERS are in Las Vegas

Looks like they may have to wait, especially during the pandemic and as for the other matter, its up to the team, and I am sure they will want to boycott the season.. to make a point that Black lives do matter!

[Cha]

2. W0w.. I'm in AWE!

[Awsi Dooger]

3. NBA is fantastic

But now the players/coaches/owners not the fans

Warriors under outspoken coach Steve Kerr jumpstarted the quarantine in March and now the Bucks under the trio of liberal owners has gotten this movement going.

They need to end the season then ramp up the messaging and voter registration drives

[dhill926]

5. that merits a holy shit! good for them...

hope the rest of the league and ALL sports follow. This is the time...it is so to speak...game on!

[mr_lebowski]

6. I wonder how Kaepernick is feeling about all this? nt

[BigmanPigman]

8. Fucking A!!!

[certainot]

9. these athletes need to know how they're being used by RW/trump/putin talk radio

here's imbaugh:

But now, because of the anti-cop sentiment, they've lost half of the audience. Now, what does the NFL think is gonna happen and what does Major League Baseball think is gonna happen once they start protesting the anthem and kneeling, which Major League Baseball has done, and they put Black Lives Matter all over the pitcher's mounds. And it's a Marxist organization. Everybody knows this. And they're ignoring it. It's not hard to find out that it's not about civil rights. It's not about fairness. It's not about doing this.

It's a pro-Marxist, anti-American, full-fledged anti-American organization.

if they really want to shake it up just tell the teams to stop broadcasting sports on all those racist radio stations. [link:http://www.fakenewsradio.org|at least 87 universities support 260 + limbaugh stations
]
here are some lakers radio stations.... 4 rw radio stations, 3 libaugh, making excuses for systemic racism, trump, and killer cops

Los Angeles Lakers

KTIE 590 AM Limbaugh
KTMS 990 AM L
KVTA 1590 AM L
KGX 920 AM RW

[DENVERPOPS]

10. Is Limpdick still around?????????

Maybe his claim of a diagnosis of cancer was a sham just so he could load up on Oxy once again...........

[certainot]

17. he's going through treatments. was absent this week so far... or maybe he's at the con con

been absent quiet a bit.

very fitting that he's be at the con con to speak but wouldn't be gone a whole week. if he goes maybe he'll get the virus with them.

[Heartstrings]

11. Solidarity! nt

[garybeck]

12. Link?

[AllTooEasy]

15. Here you go...

https://www.nba.com/video/2020/08/27/20200826-gametime-lakers-clippers-boycott

[yuiyoshida]

13. THIS IS WHY I LOVE THE LAKERS!

[Awsi Dooger]

16. This is a lot more significant than being portrayed here so far

That will be obvious throughout Thursday and beyond

[Buckeyeblue]

18. The NBA is a true partnership

The owners realize the players make the league. It's truly the best run and most entertaining of all professional sports.

In contrast, the NFL treats its players like slabs of meat. And in my opinion, the NFL regular season is almost unwatchable. The NFL game is boring. It's slow. College is much better--but I have a hard time watching young guys put their life on the line to play for free. While their coaches make millions and the NCAA makes billions.

[radius777]

19. Our pro-sports leagues are highly respected American institutions.

They're on the side of BLM.
Dems/Biden is on the side of BLM.
Donnie little fingers has spent his Admin demonizing BLM.

Gee, wonder which one is going to lose the hearts and minds of the people.

This could very well finish off Trump as even his demographic (white men) loves pro-sports, tends to lean RW - but suddenly Trump is in the way of their pasttime. Goodbye Donnie.

[Renew Deal]

20. It's a question of the effectiveness of them playing vs. the propriety.

I think it is appropriate to play and they have a bigger platform that way. I don’t see them hitting the streets for weeks at a time. So playing should be more effective. Sitting out yesterday’s games was effective at gaining attention for the issues. I’m not sure that cancelling the rest of the season would be.