{"id":53784,"date":"2020-08-26T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/raptors-consider-boycotting-game-1-vs-celtics-over-jacob-blake-shooting\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T21:54:00","slug":"raptors-consider-boycotting-game-1-vs-celtics-over-jacob-blake-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/raptors-consider-boycotting-game-1-vs-celtics-over-jacob-blake-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"#Raptors consider boycotting Game 1 vs. Celtics over Jacob Blake shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Raptors consider boycotting Game<\/a> 1 vs. Celtics over Jacob Blake shooting<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 25, 2020 |<\/span> 5:54pm <\/p>\n

\n The NBA season could be paused once more.<\/p>\n

Following the Sunday shooting of Jacob Blake by Wisconsin police, the Toronto Raptors held a team meeting to discuss the horrific incident and are considering boycotting Game 1 of their second round series<\/a> against the Celtics to bring renewed focus to the social<\/a> justice cause.<\/p>\n

Before entering the bubble in Orlando, injured Nets star Kyrie Irving led dozens of NBA players on a call in which many said they should sit out the restart of the season in order to prevent distracting from the Black Lives Matter movement. In the agreement to continue playing, the league emblazoned courts with \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d and allowed players to wear messages of social activism on the back of their jerseys.<\/p>\n

But little has changed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe knew coming here or not coming here was not going to stop anything, but I think ultimately playing or not playing puts pressure on somebody,\u201d Raptors guard Fred VanVleet said Tuesday. \u201cSo, for example, this happ<\/a>ened in Kenosha, Wisconsin, if I\u2019m correct? Would it be nice if, in a perfect world, we all say we\u2019re not playing, and the owner of the Milwaukee Bucks \u2014 that\u2019s going to trickle down. If he steps up to the plate and puts pressure on the district attorney\u2019s office, and state\u2019s attorney, and governors, and politicians there to make real change and get some justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s not that simple. But, at the end of the day, if we\u2019re gonna sit here and talk about making change, then at some point we\u2019re gonna have to put our nuts on the line and actually put something up to lose, rather than just money or visibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boston\u2019s Jaylen Brown was also open to boycotting the team\u2019s next game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess [boycotting is] something you talk about with your team, for sure. We haven\u2019t talked about that as the Celtics. But those emotions are real. That is real,\u201d Brown said. \u201cI\u2019m just happy by the grace of God that Jacob Blake is still alive, because the police who shot him, that wasn\u2019t their intention. They shot him to kill him, and that\u2019s a problem in this country. There\u2019s a million different ways you could have dissolved that situation and your thought was to kill him. That was the best method. It\u2019s definitely hard to digest or to process how you feel about it. Everything on me was on fire yesterday, waking up to it. To see people changing the framing of what he did in the past, in terms of, \u2018Well, he was a convicted felon,\u2019 or, \u2018Well, he had a history of resisting arrest or possibly had a weapon.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is not [an] unfamiliar framework in this country. We\u2019ve seen that time and time again. That does not constitute or justify the fact that you are shooting someone seven times in the back or killing them, at all. Anybody who thinks differently is no friend of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marcus Smart was also unsure what step the players should take next.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to be peaceful, kneeling, we tried to protest,\u201d Smart said. \u201cAnd for us, we tried to come out here and get together and play this game and try to get our voice across. But it\u2019s not working, so obviously something has to be done. Right now, our focus shouldn\u2019t really be on basketball. I understand it\u2019s the playoffs and everything like that, but we still have a bigger underlying issue that\u2019s going on and the things that we\u2019ve tried haven\u2019t been working, so we definitely need to take a different approach and we definitely need to try new things out to get this thing working the way that we know it should and get our voices heard even more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the NBA has long been the most socially active league, VanVleet acknowledged words aren\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve gotta take responsibility as well. Like, what are we willing to give up?\u201d VanVleet said. \u201cDo we actually give a f\u2014 about what\u2019s going on, or is it just cool to wear \u2018Black Lives Matter\u2019 on the backdrop, or wear a T-shirt? Like, what does that really mean? Is it really doing anything?\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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