Breaking: NBA teams boycott today's games

An hour ago, the Milwaukee Bucks boycotted tonight's playoff game. Their boycott was soon followed by all the other teams playing tonight, including the Los Angeles Lakers.

ESPN and other news outlets are wall-to-wall with this news. If you don't think this is big, then you don't know the nature of modern sports.

These mostly Black millionaires are no longer willing to entertain a mostly-white audience while their Black brothers and sisters keep getting mowed down in the streets. If there was any question that the NBA is the most progressive sporting league in the US, if not the world, that question has been laid to rest.

Today's boycotts open up a can of worms. I don't foresee any games being played tomorrow. It's even money whether the players just say "screw it", leave the money on the table, and refuse to provide entertainment while the country burns. We may have seen the last game of basketball played before November 3. 

As you know, I woke up in quite a funk. The enormity of the challenges facing us, even though we have the wind at our backs, simply overwhelmed me today. But these young men decided that enough was enough, and are using their power and privilege to no longer accept a system which is geared towards oppressing them. Yes, even them, millionaire athletes. They are the epitome of the old, racist joke: What do you call a Black doctor? A n***er. They know that at the end of the day, their wealth and notoriety won't protect them from some racist cop. And their actions have given me a much-needed dose of hope and resolve.

As people of goodwill, we must resolve, again, to do everything to eradicate the conditions which made this boycott inevitable. No more mealy-mouthed words. No more excuses. Get on the train, or be run over.

I may not get to see my Lakers hoist the Larry O'Brien trophy in a few weeks. And that's fine. Basketball is just a game.