Six NBA teams sat out Wednesday's round-one games following the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., and the league's referees voiced their support for the decision on Thursday.
Referees in Orlando gathered at the Walt Disney World resort on Thursday morning before marching throughout the NBA's campus. They were joined by a host of team and NBA employees, many of whom wore shirts with the message "everybody vs. racism."
“We’re here because we feel like we’re a representation of America, or what America could be,” NBA official Marc Davis told the Los Angeles Times' Tania Ganguli.