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The Bucks' stand over the shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, just 40 miles from their home arena, continued that activism and inspired similar responses across the league, the WNBA and professional baseball, soccer and hockey."Despite the overwhelming plea for change, there has been no action, so our focus today cannot be on basketball," the Bucks' players said in a joint statement Wednesday night before their scheduled game against the Orlando Magic.Several NFL teams canceled their practices, and biracial tennis player Naomi Osaka announced that she would not play her Western and Southern Open semifinal match Thursday."In some ways, this is similar to the climate of the '60s and early '70s, in which there was this Black nationalism, this incredible activism, which actually pulled athletes into the Black freedom struggle and also opposition to the Vietnam War," said New York University history professor Jeffrey Sammons, an expert on race and sports.But 2020 is also different, he said."It's become clear that athletes have considerably more power than they did back then, and I think what's happening in the larger society has given them more cover than they have had before," Sammons said.The national reckoning over race was galvanized by the death on May 25 of George Floyd, 46, a Black father of five, under the knee of white Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin.
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