Hello and welcome to an emergency pod edition of the Ringer NBA show. I am Logan Murdoch staff

writer at the Ringer. I am joined by our NBA writer Rob Mahoney and Van Lathen, one of our

one of our distinguished guests. How you guys doing man? I am well. Yeah. Big day y'all. Yeah it's

a pretty pretty historic day right now. We're we're talking to you in the midst of the Milwaukee

Bucks boycotting in their words game five of the first round Eastern Conference series against

the Orlando Magic. This is an historic event. I don't even know exactly where to start with this.

What are your immediate impressions right now? I'm going to start with Van. What are your

immediate impressions that's going on right now in this very moment? Absolute bliss.

I couldn't be happier. I couldn't be happier is if there was a chocolate cake that was a

vented that you could eat it all day long and not gain anyway. I am happier than a pig and

slop. It is high time that some group some group of essential look the NBA has players that have

to be on the court in order to make their profit go. America breeds profits. What's happening

off the court is that there are too many black people who aren't breathing who don't get to breathe.

So to see those brothers put their livelihood not just wear a t-shirt not just make a statement

but put their actual checks and their professional reputations on the line to affect the lives of

people in their communities. This is what we've been asking for and I am more than ecstatic that the

Bucks have stepped up to do it. And for context they are boycotting this game in the wake of the

shooting of Jacob Blake who was a black man in Kenosha was constant. He was shot in the back seven

times and they are demanding that they talk to the attorney general of Wisconsin. Rob was this

brewing? What have you seen in your reporting? Is this something that has been brewing for a long time

or was this the kind of the straw that broke the camel's back? Well I think these last 24 hours

think just things at a different level. In terms of the exasperation for players within the bubble

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