The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association aired on a joint Friday confirming that the playoffs would resume on Saturday. He also describes the projects in which the two sides will work in combination to promote the social justice movement:
The NBA and NBPA released the following set on the resumption of play on Saturday, as well as projects that players and the league will work together: https://t.co/2Y2e9eFEfd
The NBA then its weekend calendar:
NBA Playoff Saturday and Sunday. https://t.co/9PhPYn5tIC
Among the agreed initiatives, the league and players will “promptly identify a coalition for social justice, with representatives of players, coaches and governors, which will focus on a wide variety of issues, adding access to voting, selling civic engagement and advocating for meaningful reform of police and criminal justice.”
The initiative of the moment calls for team governors to contact local election officials in cities where “the league franchise owns and controls sand ownership” to turn those amenities into an election facility for the 2020 general election “to allow a face-to-face encounter. expensive voting option.” vulnerable communities to COVID. “
Team governors will have to work with local officials to locate some other “election-related use” of the facility, adding voter registration and voting signs, if the deadline for setting the vote in an arena has passed.
The final initiative will see the league and players work with broadcast partners to “create and come with commercials” in the remaining playoff game that will commit to “promoting greater civic engagement in national and local elections and raising awareness of voter access and opportunities. “
Players, coaches and protests continued for social justice on Friday, the third day in a row of the NBA playoffs were arrested.
The Milwaukee Bucks were the first team to play no matches on Wednesday, as they stayed in their locker room when the fifth game of their playoff series opposed to the Orlando Magic was supposed to begin.
The Milwaukee resolution came amid ongoing protests after Jacob Blake fired seven times in the back through a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on August 23.
According to Ramona Shelburne and Tim Bontemps of ESPN, Bucks players spoke Wednesday with Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and Deputy Governor Mandela Barnes after refusing to play their game to ask what they can do to have an effect on genuine social change.
“They were very interested in a call to action,” Barnes said. “They looked for anything tangible they could do in the short and long term. They sought that the strike [of Wednesday’s match opposite the Orlando Magic] was Stage 1.”
After Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets players voted to play later that day, the NBA and NBPA jointly announced that all games would be postponed and rescheduled.
While there is a hypothesis that the playoffs might not be over, Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports reported that the players had voted to continue betting at some point on a convention call on Thursday.
The NBA issued a message after declaring that Thursday’s playoff games had been postponed, but the league had “hopes of resuming” gambling on Friday or Saturday:
The NBA released the next https://t.co/8xvdWFoq3C
Following the players’ resolve to go on strike, NBA workers did the same. ESPN’s Malika Andrews reported Friday that about a hundred NBA workers will leave the league’s offices in solidarity with NBA and WNBA players advocating for social change.
NBA referees marched Thursday on the Walt Disney World Resort campus to protest racism and police brutality.