NBA Teams Are Going on Strike During Playoff Games to Protest Jacob Blake Shooting
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tvguide.comUPDATE: NBA teams are striking during all games Wednesday. The Houston Rockets-Oklahoma City Thunder and Portland Trailblazers-Los Angeles Lakers games will not be played Wednesday.
The games will be rescheduled.If you tuned in to watch the Milwaukee Bucks try to close out the Orlando Magic in the first round of the NBA Playoffs Wednesday afternoon, all you saw was an empty court.
But there was nothing empty about the statement being made.The Bucks went on strike ahead of Game 5 of their playoff series by not taking the court as a form of protest after the Sunday shooting of Jacob Blake, who was unarmed and had his back turned to three police officers after trying to defuse a fight in Kenosha, Wisconsin, when officers shot him.
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