The NBA player boycott won’t change Jacob Blake’s fate

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The Orlando Magic and Milwaukee Bucks were scheduled to be playing a crucial playoff basketball game right now — but the Bucks never showed up to the court in Orlando because a black man named Jacob Blake got shot at least seven times by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday. There have been violent riots in the community ever since.

The boycott by the Bucks is absolutely the wrong move. Since the Magic wanted to play the game, the Bucks should have forfeited, but the Magic wouldn’t accept it. However, the Magic should have accepted it and taken the win.

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