After three days of pausing the playoffs to make a statement on racial inequality and call for justice in the case of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot by police in Kenosha, Wis., NBA players will resume the playoffs on Saturday, the league and players’ association announced in a joint statement Friday.
Also in the statement was the product of talks between the players and owners as it pertained to renewing their fight against systemic racism. Part of those reforms included a call for every team that owns its arena to try and use that space as a polling place in the upcoming election.