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Inside the hectic hours around a historic NBA boycott
WE HEARD IT in their voices. The pain. The anger. The desperate cry for justice.
The video of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black father of six, being shot seven times by Kenosha, Wisconsin, police hit the NBA and its players in waves this week.
"Why does it always have to get to the point where we see the guns firing?" LeBron James asked Monday night. He'd just won a playoff game, but couldn't enjoy it.
"My emotions are all over the place," he said, as if an apology was necessary.
The video of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black father of six, being shot seven times by Kenosha, Wisconsin, police hit the NBA and its players in waves this week.
"Why does it always have to get to the point where we see the guns firing?" LeBron James asked Monday night. He'd just won a playoff game, but couldn't enjoy it.
"My emotions are all over the place," he said, as if an apology was necessary.
So much in the article that only four paragraphs don't do this justice. A good read, thankfully ESPN is a free sight.
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/29750724/inside-hectic-hours-historic-nba-boycott