The NBA has scheduled a special Board of Governors meeting for Thursday morning, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN (Twitter link).
While Woj hasn’t provided any additional details, it’s safe to assume that NBA team owners will be discussing next steps after players boycotted the three playoff games on Wednesday. Players and coaches in Orlando are meeting on Wednesday night to discuss their plan of action, so the direction of Thursday’s meeting may be dictated in large part by decisions made tonight.
Despite speculation from some players that the rest of the 2019/20 season is in jeopardy, a “sizable” number of players are reportedly advocating to complete the season. Wojnarowski reports (via Twitter) that there’s also a sentiment within the Bucks – the team that initiated today’s boycotts – that they want to continue playing in Orlando.
Earlier this evening, Bucks players called for the Wisconsin State Legislature to reconvene to address “issues of police accountability, brutality, and criminal justice reform.” If players ultimately decide to complete the season, they may first call for similar action from other state governments.
If players decide against finishing the season, it would create major complications related to the salary cap and Collective Bargaining Agreement going forward, as John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 tweets.
Judged by result
There is no effect on police accountability.
NBA players get lower salary.
If the season is cancelled.
Does the NBA love shooting themselves in the foot? Today is looking a lot like that awful day in March where all sports were paused. Somehow the NBA made a perfect plan to beat the virus and it was a miracle sports returned. And now the tone deaf players come out to tell us they can’t play because something bad happened. No one would be shocked if the next piece of news is “the leauge will take 2 weeks off to reflect and re-evaluate from there”. Great job making those who hated how political the leauge has become even more annoyed with your leauge.
Wow.
“Because something bad happened”…?
YOU are part of the problem and exponentially not part of a solution.
There are baseless murders every single day. When you stop getting selective outrage solutions will present itself.
“Annoyed with your league”. So i guess in your mind, those “tone deaf” players should “shut up and dribble”?
Not shut up but they can at least play the dang games. Don’t need millionaires telling us to reflect.
I get it… protest in a way that’s comfortable and convenient for YOU.
“tone deaf players”
I guess it is sometimes hard to act like a “professional” in the face of 500 years of oppression. Tone deafness occurs at many levels.
Yeah if I was a multimillionaire athlete held up in a hotel with a personal chef playing a child’s game I would feel real oppressed as well
@ctw Sterling Brown says hello
See the thing is CTW, it isn’t just about them. Get it? Probably not.
Sad, sad , sad. Loved how the NBA planned and got this going. Then some idiot cop ruins it all. I don’t blame the players one bit. When will this stuff stop. I admire the players for boycotting.
Interesting that comments on these threads keep getting deleted, when these are the types of conversations the players and protesters are trying to create.
And based on some people’s inability to understand the main reason for the protests, we need to keep having these discussions.
But, hey keep deleting posts. That will help.
Posts are getting deleted because they’re political and irrelevant to the game of basketball. If I were to take a guess, about 75% of commenters on these threads literally made an account just to bicker and insult each other. It’s annoying to true fans of the game
Irrelevant to the game? Weren’t games just postponed due to player protests? I would say that’s pretty relevant to the game of basketball.
Some of those comments had nothing to do with basketball. I don’t think you can deny that