After the break, the final stop? LeBron James’ Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers voted to drop the NBA season, in protest against police shooting against African-American Jacob Blake, multiple media reported Wednesday evening.
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The Lakers and the Clippers, the two big rivals and favorites for the NBA title, expressed this wish during an emergency meeting involving all the teams still in the play-offs, which take place in the Disney bubble. World, say ESPN, The Athletic and Yahoo Sports. According to them, the other eleven teams prefer to continue the season.
What follow-up to the season?
This emergency meeting was held after the Milwaukee Bucks boycotted their game against the Orlando Magic earlier. An initiative supported by the other players of the teams who were also to play on Wednesday and which forced the NBA to postpone the three matches on the program.
Discussions over what to do with the season are set to resume on Thursday, while no boycott announcements have been made by the teams due to play that day, even though their outfits are threatened.
The League, for its part, will hold a board of directors, involving managers and franchise owners, to “respond to the concerns of players,” she announced.
