NBA players decided on Thursday to resume the league’s playoffs after they refused to play Wednesday in protest of a police shooting in Kenosha, Wis., a defiant action that had jeopardized the rest of the basketball season and continued to halt play in other sports leagues. The NBA postponed three more games scheduled for Thursday, one day after the Milwaukee Bucks staged their extraordinary work stoppage, but the players electing to restart the season averted a labor crisis for the league during a pandemic. A spokesman for...

Source: Wall Street Journal August 27, 2020 17:43 UTC