President Donald Trump told reporters last week that mixing politics with sports will “destroy basketball.”
“You know when you watch sports, you want to sort of relax, but this is a whole different world … You don’t want to stay in politics. You want to relax,” Trump said, before warning that political statements from football and baseball teams could be “very bad” for the leagues.
He drove that point home yet again this week when he took to Twitter and bashed the league very getting way too political and having bad ratings as a result.
Last Wednesday, NBA playoff games were postponed as players from the Milwaukee Bucks, Houston Rockets, Oklahoma City Thunder, Los Angeles Lakers, and Portland Trail Blazers chose not to play in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The NBA announced that playoffs would resume on Saturday, August 29, but the league will continue efforts to help shine a light on things like racial injustice, criminal just reform, police reform, and limited voting access.
