If the Los Angeles Lakers had beat the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night, they would have advanced to the second round of the NBA playoffs for the first time since 2012. But instead of battling each other on the court, the players instead chose to stand together off of it, enacting a wildcat strike and cancelling their game to protest and seek justice for Jacob Blake.
Blake, a 29-year-old, unarmed Black man, was shot by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin seven times in front of his children while attempting to enter his car over the weekend.