LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- As Jacob Blake Sr. remembers it, barely any time had passed from the time the Milwaukee Bucks decided not to play their game Wednesday in protest of the shooting of his son by the police, to when his phone rang and the Bucks were on the line.
He had just left the hospital after visiting his son, also named Jacob Blake, the 29-year-old Black man who was shot seven times by Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer Rusten Sheskey as Blake tried to enter the driver's side door of his vehicle following an encounter with law enforcement last weekend.