Best of 2020: The Milwaukee Bucks' Protest
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🗓️ 30 December 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Back in August, there was a stunning night when the Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court against the Orlando Magic inside the NBA bubble. This was shortly after the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin -- an event that triggered protests in Wisconsin and across the country. As part of our look back at 2020, we’re revisiting that story today. The Athletic’s Michael Lee spoke with us about how things unfolded on that day and why the events in Kenosha were hitting NBA players particularly hard.
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| 0:07.4 | Back in August, there was a stunning moment in NBA where the Milwaukee Bucks refused to |
| 0:12.1 | take the court against the Orlando Magic inside the NBA bubble. |
| 0:16.4 | This was shortly after the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, an event that |
| 0:20.4 | triggered protests in Wisconsin and across the country. |
| 0:23.8 | Today, as part of our look back at 2020, we're revisiting that story. |
| 0:28.5 | The Athletics Michael Lee spoke with us about how things unfolded on that day and why |
| 0:33.0 | the events in Kenosha were hitting NBA players particularly hard. |
| 0:37.6 | From wondering on the athletic, I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 0:40.7 | And I'm Anders Kelto. |
| 0:42.2 | This is the lead. |
| 0:50.2 | So Michael, can you walk us through how things developed Wednesday in Orlando? |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm a Milwaukee Bucks obviously being a team that's closest to Kenosha or Jacob Blake |
| 1:00.0 | was paralyzed. |
| 1:01.0 | They felt an obligation to not play, considering all that was going on. |
| 1:05.4 | When they showed up to the arena to play the Orlando Magic, they had discussed not playing. |
| 1:09.6 | And as the Orlando Magic players were on the court and they were still warming up, but |
| 1:14.1 | there was no opponent. |
| 1:15.3 | There are Orlando Magic players heading back into the locker room. |
| 1:19.6 | According to Adrian Wojcnorowski, the Bucks have been in serious discussion about boycotting |
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