NBA Players Decide To Resume Playoffs

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Published on August 28 2020 1:36 pm
Last Updated on August 28 2020 1:36 pm

National Basketball Association players decided at a meeting Thursday they will resume the 2020 playoffs.

Players had staged walkouts due to Black lives matter Wednesday in response to the shooting of an unarmed Black man named Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday

Wednesday games were postponed as were Thursday contests. Friday games also went by the wayside.

The games that had been scheduled to take place Wednesday with the Bucks vs. Magic, the Houston Rockets vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Los Angeles Lakers vs. the Portland Trail Blazers will now be played Saturday. The Thursday contests featuring the Jazz vs. the Nuggets, the LA Clippers vs. Dallas and the Raptors against the Celtics, will be played Sunday.