Led by the Milwaukee Bucks and 2020 NBA Defensive Player of the Year Giannis Antetokounmpo, players from the Orlando Magic, Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City Thunder, Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Lakers refused to play during their Game 5s of the playoff.
The league announced on Wednesday (August 26) the games would be postponed indefinitely. The WNBA, who are inside their own bubble at the IMG Academy, also postponed all their scheduled games. In turn, the news sent shockwaves throughout the Hip Hop community.
Snoop Dogg reposted Lakers star LeBron James’ outraged tweet, “FUCK THIS MAN!!!! WE DEMAND CHANGE. SICK OF IT” while Chance The Rapper reiterated he feels police departments nationwide should be defunded. Diddy praised the unified effort.
Other Hip Hop artists such as Plies, Bas and Cardo also chimed in with politically charged commentary.
For his part, NBA On TNT commentator Kenny Smith walked off the set during the live broadcast in solidarity with the players.
On Tuesday (August 25), Kenosha, Wisconsin police were recorded shooting 24-year-old resident Jacob Blake seven times in the back. The family called the incident “a senseless attempted murder” as they reported he’s paralyzed as a result of his injuries. Federal investigators have launched a civil rights probe. Utah Jazz beat writer Andy Larsen took note of how a few current and past Bucks players have been victims of police brutality themselves.
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Check out some more Hip Hop reactions over the NBA and WNBA’s stance.
What the hell is that going to do?
A lot more than a racist prick trying to troll on a hip hop site. Phag.
How was his comment racist? Exactly what in that statement hurt your feelings? And if he’s racist then you need to check your homophobic language … you must be 12 … too bad he didn’t assault your mom while she was pregnant for you
Never thought I’d see the day where a man was under arrest for sexual abuse and domestic abuse would be championed. There is Bill Clinton, but I digress. This man did everything he could possibly do wrong. What do y’all think he was walking to his car for? His license and registration??? Get real. These celebrities are running with the same narrative the mainstream media is pushing. Whether they know it’s a lie or not doesn’t matter to them. It’s about the narrative. You resist arrest and reach into your car when you’re being told to stop; you gonna get what you got coming to you. The left is disgusting. All they are going to do is propagate more false ideology that’s going to get more people hurt. Abolish the police….that’s funny. Considering when people stand up to these communists the first they do is scream for the police. This isn’t about abolishing police. Wake up, or get yourself in a situation you can’t get out of. Take that as you will.
Yup, Unpopular, you’re always spot on with what you post. To the left it’s all about optics. A Mexican old man was viciously beaten inside the restroom of a supermarket by two black thugs, he ended up dying in the hospital. Where are the riots? Where is the media and the players demanding justice? They killed him for $20. Street vendors in Los Angeles get beaten and robbed by blacks every week, and silence. That poor five year old boy shot in front of his brother and sister in North Carolina….no body in the sports world cares. Guess why the child rapists in Hollywood and sports care about a thug? He was one of them: a piece of shit.
I love seeing posts like this. Someone with a brain. I’m seeing more and more of these posts from different people. Everyone is waking up.
Yes! Let’s all rally around a felon that was the subject of a domestic disturbance investigation. Who cares that he was armed with a knife, resisted arrest, and attempted to enter a vehicle to either flee, putting others in danger, or to potentially retrieve a gun. Salute, kings!
Hey LeBron what about China….
Wonderful, let the protests begin for this convicted rapist who happens to be black .
if hes already been convicted, that means he was punished and released…but to a racist, that will never be good enough…you are more than happy to see a man get shot in the back in cold blood, even though hes already paid his debt to society
I wonder if you’d feel the same if the sexual assault victim was your mother or sister. You fucking loser.
Don’t see how he was already convicted of they had an active warrant starting July 7th, but to someone who doesn’t want to hold anyone accountable for anything they do wrong based on the color of their skin I could see how this wasn’t good enough since had yet to pay his debt to society.
Great article.
Bro this is not trolling but your shit is super trash, step your game up, have you never compared and listened to what you trying to sound like to what you actually sound like? Just stop it lol
I can’t believe you would waste your hard earned money on your music delusion, I’m sure nobody thinks you’re any good, you could be doing better things with your time cause this shit is soo doodoo, its literally laughable how bad it is, I would only play this as a joke lol
Ive been an NBA fan all my life. Thats the end of it. Fuck the NBA and fuck the players.
Disgusting these celebrities need to be abolished, deactivate your facebook and all that other mainstream shit stop buying there gear fuck all the music too, these heartless pedophiles need to be brought down yet here we all are watching there bullshit movies listening to there wack music watching sports cheering on pedophiles fuck them all
Wow kenny smith real but I noticed shaq and Barkley were more worried about that check
I just wanna thank todays athletes and rappers for helping me break free from this toxic ghetto culture. Fuck the NBA and fuck rap music. Never looking back. It really perplexes me why I ever got involved with you lowlives and your toxic culture to begin with.
Preach, brother.
the police officer could have got him in a headlock taken him to the ground and they be all over him. this is what you call abuse of power. when these police get trained are they not trained to only fire their gun in a life or death situation. do police officers ever wear a bulletproof vest.
Sure. As a BJJ black belt, a headlock is a great way to give up your back (not good). And while he is in the headlock, is there a gentlemen’s agreement that the guy in the headlock doesn’t grab the officers gun and taser? Choke holds hve been banned by ALL police forces across the US. You don’t think much, do you? Same with these idiots that say “shoot him in the leg.” Then he turns around and stabs or shoots you with a hole in his leg. Center mass bullet groupings. That means back or chest. Fire until the suspect is down. If you didn’t want to get shot in the back, you should run towards them while not complying and reaching for a knife, you’ll get shot in the chest instead. This suicide by cop is everything BUT racist. SMH. Please just keep quiet, dummy. You’re not helping.
Nah man your a clown you dont have to shoot someone dead to disarm them fucking bozo weather they have a weapon. or not and the cop would get shot or stabbed as they lie on the ground shot in the leg nah man your reaching taser would have done it a bullet to the leg upper shoulder
Please explain how this works. Since your an expert using big words like “fucking bozo.” I’d love to hear all about your proposal. Maybe send it to the DOJ for further analysis.
Explain how what works? Dont think you’ll be talking down on me because you can throw around big words, further analysis? Is it so hard to contemplate shooting one in the leg with one bullet as opposed to 7 in the upper back just so that they can “safely” arrest them lmao you are a goof what I said was pretty straight forward so I now see what side you reside on I generally agree with your opinions but if your all about slaughtering individuals then you can burn in hell along with the BLM LGBT community.
You think “further analysis” are big words? Talk about setting the bar low. We don’t even know what this guy was on to make him not respond to tasers. Putting words in my mouth about wanting to see the so-called slaughtering of individuals while also just repeating what you said prior when you wanted to sound like an expert doesn’t tell me much more then you have nothing else to add on to the conversation other than attempt to talk down to the person that evoked my response in the first place. Honestly you could’ve save yourself the time of typing and just copy and pasted your previous response instead of attempting to talk down to me and then put words in my mouth. Who’s really the goof? Next.
Your not as smart as you think lol you decide to call me out because I felt the cops could have shot him in the leg and or handled the situation differently rather then “slaughtering” an individual, so you obviously felt that they had every right to slaughter him because? He was a criminal? Tell me why smart guy you never answered that question you just re-repeated my message dumb ass let it go
Blake’s girlfriend called the police because she had a restraining on him. He is a woman beater. He had no business at his girlfriend’s residence
No work no pay … there’s thousands of kids that wanna play give them a chance
The guy has a sexual assault charge. I guess the public needs a video of the sexual assault to dismiss this criminal.
As usual you can spot the misinformed and ignorant whites and the just plain racist whites. If you hate us so much why frequent places we gather,offering no real solutions,care,or understanding? It’s weirdly obsessive and counterproductive in so many ways. As a pro black man,I think stopping the season is POINTLESS,bad whites will continuing being AWFUL waste of semen. But if we were UNIFIED all the time,these atrocities would have stopped happening on a regular basis long ago. It’s the hardest pill to swallow but since the 70s,we’ve been our biggest enemy and stumbling block to progress. Just in case you question my blackness. Go to youtube to my channel and type:darealkingrichard
Stupid black people need to shut the fuck up!!! Black Lives Matter is retarded and all that support it are too, including white, Asian, mixed race, gay, straight, trans etc it defends all the wrong people, while decent, hard working people have to put up and watch the Bull Shit happen. I hope black lives matter falls on its ass or the army put them on it!!!
Well according to racist and just plain close minded whites,all blacks are bad and should just leave if they have ANY problems in amerikkka. That’s just dumb,cause when they have issues here,they don’t leave,they look for and expect SOLUTIONS,usually from the government. BLM in theory is great,but in reality it’s like most police forces across the nation,badly managed,lack of accountability,loses focus on its agenda,and has no common sense on their direction. To say BLM defends ALL the wrong people is highly ignorant,there have been plenty of INNOCENT blacks it stood up for. Seems like you haven’t followed each situation and are lumping the bad with the good. Even when it’s a unarmed alleged criminal,the police don’t have the right to hold trial right there by killing them. If that’s the case why are so many white CRIMINALS brought in alive and have DUE PROCESS?
Wait, so you are saying mostLu WHITE criminals are brought in alive for due process? LOL. The prisons in the US are over 60% black buddy. Was there an ammunition shortage? I’m lumping in ANYONE who is commuting a SERIOUS crime that resista arrest and doesn’t comply. George Floyd refused to get into the cop car because he was high and had claustrophobia. Maybe consider those factors before commuting a felony for the 5th time? He knows how the police get down. Same with this guy. He had a restraining order against him by his girl, and had a warrant out for sexually assaulting her. He goes to her home, the cops pull up, he fights them then runs around to the drivers side of his car where he said he had a knife, his family said he had a knife, and gets shot in the back reaching in for that knife. Anyone of any race would have been shot just the same. Any one of any race would have been killed like Floyd did by that same cop. It’s not a race issue. It IS a compliance issue. I have yet to see an INNOCENT person in any of these examples. What happened to Floyd was wrong. That cop deserves prison IMO. This time around was a justified shooting. All of these weirdo millionaires are talking about systematic racism, when they live in mansions and fly private. They have the best lawyers and doctors with all of this discrimination running amok. Strange. We also have “anti fascist” morons rioting and setting fire to property claiming to be BLM when they are loser white folk who are laughed at by society. In a fascist regime, riots and protests don’t happen. Check out how Hong Kong’s protests and riots are coming along for the last few months. Wake up buddy. Your problem is a narrative used to exploit your people that you’re happily playing along to. Cash based bail, qualified immunity and how police are prosecuted and charged with crimes, as well as prison reform for non violent crime offenders is what ONE UNIFIED VOICE needed to shout. This has all been weaponized to kick Trump out of office. It looks like it will work. Wake up buddy. Help your people out. Anyone who tried is a racist.
Mostly whites are brought in for due process,mostly blacks are too. But there have already been STUDIES showing the large discrepancy between blacks being killed by cops vs whites being killed by cops. Why is that something a lot of whites keep IGNORING like it’s ok or being made up lol. What does a lot of blacks being in jail have to do with any points i made or from the post? Do criminals NOT have rights now? Are the police the LAW now or just the enforcers/protectors? You’re going way off base from my POINTS. I’m not asking where the people saints,OBVIOUSLY they aren’t,but every black person killed by the cops is not a CRIMINAL,yet a lot of your people keep ignoring the good blacks done wrong and due process. If you said what happen to floyd was wrong,you’re agreeing cops are out of control,which is most blacks point about police brutality so you agree with BLM in that regard. Now you saying because someone black is successful,they’re IMMUNE from racism,discrimination,& police brutality/harassment,that’s dummy talk & republican programming. You’re saying wake up but you’re the one being bias only to whites,im at least saying all the blacks shot are not good people,you want even call out ANY bad white people.
Studies from who? The tranny/gay community probley put that together, both of you font see the bigger picture this has fuck all to do with black folks nor any cops this is the fall of the world that we all know, get ready for September
The problem with calling out bad white people is that the mainstream media, and community won’t do the same thing they do with a George Floyd, a Rayshard Brooks, or a Michael Brown. While I understand what you’re trying to say the climate since Obama’s presidency won’t allow for that kind of episode of contrarian corner. Not saying it doesn’t happen, but the statistics show either way that black Americans are more likely to put themselves in this position where this type of incident happens. The bias is against every race but black Americans. It’s a compliance issue, as well as an accountability issue.
So basically ALL blacks are bringing it on themselves,should accept it,& yet still do better as CITIZENS? Then you say it’s a compliance and accountability,are whites IMMUNE from treating blacks like americans,following the law,and being punished to the full extent of the law? You’re focused on the MEDIA(which is mostly white),yet im focused on AMERICANS behavior saying EVERYONE should be under the same rules,by your OWN admittance you just proved WHITE PRIVILEGE is real. Is that HARD to call out your? Im black and i do it daily ONLINE.
Richard your way to emotional another big problem with the colorism you have rotting in your brain, nobody said ALL blacks he said your “most likely” put yourselfs in bad positions and that’s the truth, to keep it street? Live by the code? Dont cry when yall die by the gun then, fix your inner family’s first that’s where the issue lies.
Out of everything I said all you got was victimization and supposed white privilege? How do you even know what skin color I have? My font size and color of font is the same as yours. Also, the people I named aren’t ALL blacks. Sounds like you should go back to the drawing board.
Blacks will never be unified until black families are unified. Too many black children are born and raised in dysfunctional, single parents households. Can’t build a foundation or be unified when the home is broken. Let’s talk about real issues in the black community
Rappin 4 Tay had that track I’ll Be Around that said just that. Crazy record to play now in 2020. He said it himself so perfectly in my opinion
Only people black people stand up for is themselves … where was this unified cry for civil liberties in China …. nope … nothing … Queen James doesn’t want to rock his money boat … because that’s what truly matters …. when a 5 ur old is shot and killed by a black guy where were the “kings” (such a joke) standing up for the white kid … in fact where is the outcry for all the white people killed by black people (an insanely larger number) … you are flucking hypocrites … how many white people are killed by cops again? A lot more … but because of %’s their lives don’t matter? ……. the most shocking thing that could come out of 2020 would be for one black person to hold their hand up and take ownership for their own actions and perceptions they helped foster through “the culture”
So you mean that there would have to be accountability?! I agree with you, but I just don’t see this happening unfortunately. There has been so much media malpractice going on for so long. Everyone is a victim. Unless you are white, brown, or Asian. Well, it also matters what political ideals you side with. So maybe, just maybe it doesn’t really matter what your skin color is…just a thought.
But who really cares tho? Imagine thinking so highly of yourself that you think not playing a game for 2 days will invoke societal change? They didn’t even go all the way and cancel the season, they just had a tantrum and now they’re getting their 5 extra minutes before bed time. Then you go and strong arm the other athletes of different sports to fall in line. We haven’t had sports since March and managed, nobody really gives a fuck if you play or not anymore.
The players boycott literally consisted of posting on twitter, playing video games, and instagram stories. A complete fucking joke of a boycott.
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