The most intriguing first-round series of the NBA playoffs moves to a Game 6 on Thursday with the second-seeded Los Angeles Clippers one victory from advancing past the seventh-seeded Dallas Mavericks.
As of Wednesday night, the game was still due to be played despite the player-led boycott that prompted the postponement of all three of the NBA's scheduled Wednesday games. Led by the Milwaukee Bucks, the players sat out to have their voices be heard in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, by a Kenosha, Wis., police officer.
As the title-contending Clippers bob and weave with the Mavericks and emerging superstar Luka Doncic, it was Los Angeles that made the latest statement, powering its way to a 154-111 victory in key Game 5 on Tuesday near Orlando to take a 3-2 series lead.