{"id":158098,"date":"2020-08-27T03:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T01:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/08\/27\/nba-joined-by-mlb-teams-in-boycott-to-protest-police-shooting-of-jacob-blake\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T03:04:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T01:04:12","slug":"nba-joined-by-mlb-teams-in-boycott-to-protest-police-shooting-of-jacob-blake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=158098","title":{"rendered":"NBA joined by MLB teams in boycott to protest police shooting of Jacob Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bucks\u2019 home of Milwaukee is close to site of shootingGeorge Hill says team is \u2018tired of killings and injustice\u2019MLB and WNBA teams also boycott in solidarityOn an extraordinary day for the NBA, the Milwaukee Bucks boycotted Game 5 of their playoff series against the Orlando Magic in protest of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, leading the NBA to reschedule all other Wednesday night playoff games.Milwaukee\u2019s baseball team, the Brewers, also confirmed they would not play their game scheduled for Wednesday evening. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2020\/aug\/26\/milwaukee-bucks-boycott-nba-playoff-game-orlando-magic-jacob-blake\" target=\"_blank\">NBA joined by MLB teams in boycott to protest police shooting of Jacob Blake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bucks\u2019 home of Milwaukee is close to site of shootingGeorge Hill says team is \u2018tired of killings and injustice\u2019MLB and WNBA teams also boycott in solidarityOn an extraordinary day for the NBA, the Milwaukee Bucks boycotted Game 5 of their playoff series against the Orlando Magic in protest of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}