Twelve years ago, an Illinois senator spoke words that resonate more today than they did on the 2008 presidential campaign trail from which he spoke.
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time,” Barack Obama told a motivated crowd one February night. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
On Wednesday, those words were emblazoned on George Hill’s T-shirt as he informed the world he and his NBA cohorts are sick and tired of waiting.
What started with Hill and the Milwaukee Bucks boycotting their playoff game against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday afternoon, ended with the entire NBA playoff schedule – including Game 5 of the tied Rockets-Thunder series – screeching to a halt, five MLS matches being called off and three games being scratched in both Major League Baseball and the WNBA.