NBA Players Decide to Resume Season, Thursday Games Postponed

The NBA players have reportedly decided to resume the season as early as Friday.

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00:00History was made on Wednesday afternoon when six NBA teams, beginning with the Milwaukee

00:04Bucks, chose not to play their slate of playoff games in protest of the police shooting of

00:09Jacob Blake.

00:10Later that night, news broke the LA Clippers and Los Angeles Lakers were not in support

00:15of continuing the NBA season.

00:16However, after choosing to reconvene on Thursday morning, the players have since decided to

00:21resume the playoffs according to a report from ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.

00:25In addition to Wednesday's schedule of playoff games, Thursday's had been postponed as well

00:29which means the Clippers and Dallas Mavericks will not play game six of their first round

00:33series tonight.

00:35The Athletic's Sean Strani reported that the league and players are aiming to restart games

00:38on Friday, signaling that LA and Dallas could resume play as soon as this weekend.

00:43Additionally, players have reportedly been vocal about finding, quote, new and improved

00:48ways to make statements regarding social justice, which is understandable.

00:52Many players are frustrated with the league's limiting the messages that can be worn on

00:55the back of uniforms, so that could be something that we see change in the near future.

00:59The Clippers' personnel have seemingly played a big role in this process, but we won't know

01:02exactly what they did or said until they speak publicly about it.

01:05What we do know, though, is that Kawhi Leonard and Doc Rivers have been very involved.

01:09The LA Times' Brad Turner reported Wednesday night that Leonard, along with Los Angeles

01:13Lakers star LeBron James, spoke up during the meeting about not continuing play, while

01:17Wojnarowski listed Rivers among a group of people that were leading the discussion.

01:22Additionally, Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love tweeted,

01:25Doc Rivers is the blank best, shortly before it was announced that the season would resume.

01:31Throughout this time in the bubble, Rivers has been adamant about players using this

01:34platform to bring awareness to social justice issues, but has also said that we must let

01:38the youth lead the way.

01:40On Tuesday, Rivers will wave what his message would be to players considering sitting out

01:43the remainder of the season, saying, quote,

01:56So they're not going to take any dreams away.

02:00There are reportedly more meetings set to take place at the day, which are expected

02:04to include a plan of action as the league moves forward through this process.