The Milwaukee Bucks and Orlando Magic were scheduled to play Game 5 of their first-round playoff series on Wednesday afternoon. However, the Bucks never left their locker room, and a few minutes before tip-off, the Magic left the court.
When the buzzer to start the game sounded, there was nothing but an empty court with a message printed on it— the same message that the Bucks are hoping to send by boycotting their game: Black Lives Matter.
The protest is a response to a police shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in which Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was shot in the back multiple times by police.