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Fri Aug 28

Athletes won't stay silent on politics anymore. But will leagues support their protests if it costs them real money?

Written by Keith Rathbone, Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University

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This week, the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court in protest over the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin, Jacob Blake, who remains paralysed in hospital.

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