Not just an incredible week of playoff comebacks and buzzer beaters, but real political action. Soon after, the two other NBA games were cancelled and Major League Baseball’s Milwaukee Brewers followed suit. About 75% of the NBA is black and many of its athletes come from poor and working-class backgrounds. For now, despite vague sloganeering turning into real disruptive action, the NBA has continued to swim with changing tides. NBA players might not be ordinary workers, but they have far more in common with the working-class communities that nurtured so many of them in childhood than with the billionaire owners they now work for.

Source: The Guardian August 27, 2020 15:01 UTC