Peaceful protests following the shooting death of Stephon Clark disrupted a Sacramento Kings game last week, dwindling attendance at the 17,000-seat Golden 1 Center to just 2,000 fans and delaying the final round of the Kings’ March Madness-like Capitalize startup competition.
This Sunday, the team held its own NBA-backed protest ahead of its game against the Boston Celtics when players from both teams wore warm-up t-shirts emblazoned with the name of Clark, who was killed by two Sacramento police officers in his grandmother’s backyard. It also announced that Capitalize, its annual crowdsourced tech contest powered by the Sacramento Urban Technology Lab, would be rescheduled to its March 29 home game against the Indiana Pacers.