The National Basketball Association postponed three playoff games and much of the sports world ground to a halt on Wednesday after the Milwaukee Bucks’ decision to boycott a playoff game in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wis. The Bucks’ action quickly snowballed into the most widespread show of dissent yet by athletes aiming to leverage their stardom into social change. It led to cancellations of some games in Major League Baseball, the Women’s National Basketball Association and Major...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 26, 2020 20:48 UTC