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The Anchorage Daily News headlined an Associated Press article Second day of NBA playoff games halted after player walkout in protest of social injustice. [61] Sporting News had Adam Silver responds to player boycott: 'I wholeheartedly support NBA and WNBA players. [62] Mother Jones had NBA Players Are Staging a Wildcat Strike. [63]
The diplomatic boycott would bar all US government officials from attending the games in an official capacity. The White House cited China's mistreatment of the Uyghur people as the reason for the boycott. The White House said it stopped short of a full boycott, because "it would not be fair to punish athletes who have trained for years". [1]
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The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne ...
Mandatory Credit: Jerome Miron-Imagn Images (Jerome Miron-Imagn Images) It was just after midnight Sunday in the Eastern time zone when the social media post from ESPN nearly broke the internet.