The afternoon began with NBA players from the Milwaukee Bucks electing to sit out of a nationally-televised playoff game in protest after Jacob Blake was shot by police not too far from where the Bucks play their home games.
Four more NBA teams — the Thunder, the Rockets, the Blazers, and the Lakers — followed suit, as did the Milwaukee Brewers in the MLB.
Once the NBA decided it would not play after another Black man was the victim of police brutality, it seemed to be a foregone conclusion that the WNBA would stand in arms with its brother league.