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The Los Angeles Lakers and Utah jazz creak with the NBA reopening amid players protests
Players, coaches and referees kneel during the national anthem
Lebron's late penalty kick raises the Lakers after the Clippers, 103-101
Jazz squeak past the swans in the first game of the doubleheader
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Black players were next to the white players. Coaches from one team were on the opposite side of their countrymen. He closed many weapons with the man next to them, some tightly closed their eyes, and some raised their fists in the air.
The NBA had a strong and powerful overnight message to reopen.
When it comes to demanding change, the league stands united and on Thursday, Utah Jazz and New Orleans Pelicans showed that by not standing up.
An unprecedented image of the league in unprecedented times: jazz and swans knelt side by side through a "bright banner", their way to join the chorus of those demanding racial justice and equality in society.
The NBA has a rule dating back to the early 1980s that players should play the national anthem, and Commissioner Adam Silver quickly announced that policy was being adjusted.
"I respect the work of our united teams for peaceful protest for social justice and under these unique circumstances our old rule that requires standing during the playing of our national anthem will not be imposed," said Silver, who watched from a closed wing of plexiglass. It has not been isolated and therefore cannot be around the players and coaches who live inside the so-called NBA bubble in Walt Disney World.
The coaches, Alvin Gentry from New Orleans, and Queen Snyder from Utah, were next to each other, and their arms were tied together. The scene, which occurred with the teams lining up along the closest sideline where a "black life" was drawn on the field, was the first to expect many silent statements on match day by players and coaches who would kneel to call attention to several issues in the forefront Police brutality after death, among other things, Bruna Taylor and George Floyd in recent months.
Even the game's rulers were knitted during a pregame scene. The Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers repeated the demonstration before the second game of the nightly double-headed header that reopened later Thursday.
"I think it is very important for all of us to draw attention, in a unified way, to social justice," Snyder said during a televised interview in the game. "And all players, all coaches, are united in this fact and committed to doing what we can do to make a difference in the long run."
Many players prepare to wear shirts that say "Black Lives Matter". Also on Thursday, new shirts appeared with messages many players chose to add, such as "equality" and "peace."
The NBA season was suspended when the Rudi Joubert test who also scored the first basket of the re-played jazz season was positive for the coronavirus and became the first league player with such a diagnosis.
Joubert was diagnosed on March 11. Two days later, Taylor, a 26-year-old black woman, was fatally shot when police officers stormed her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, using a no-exposure order during a drug investigation. It was a suspect who was not living there and no drugs were found.
Then, on March 25, Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee in the neck of the black man for nearly eight minutes. It happened on a street, with pictures and sounds of the man who said he couldn't breathe, then shouted for his mother, who was all captured in a cell phone video.
NBA players used their platforms in the bubble and on social media to demand equality, to demand justice for Taylor. Trainers also said that it is their duty to demand change and educate themselves and others. Pregame actions by jazz and pelicans were just the beginning of what is expected to be consistent throughout the remainder of this season.
"We want our lives to be appreciated like everyone else," said Boston Celtics star Jason Tatum in a pre-match video, a project organized by the National Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association. "We don't think we are the best. We want to be seen as equal."
Chris Paul, Oklahoma City Thunder keeper and president of NBPA, was added speaking in the same video
Things won't change until we kind of change them
Gentry said he appreciated the casual symmetry that came from the first games of the season that resumed just hours after the funeral of American actor John Lewis, who died on July 17 at the age of 80.
Lewis spent most of his life advocating civil rights and equality and was the youngest speaker in Washington in March 1963, as Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech "I Have a Dream." Gentry said he believed this movement, like the one that Lewis had helped ignite six decades ago, would continue.
“If I talk to some of the younger generation, I think this is staying here. Gentry said: I really do it.” I have a 20-year-old son and a 22-year-old son, and I know they feel this is the time for us to try to change this Country."
Los Angeles Clippers 101-103 Los Angeles Lakers
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers showed some rust.
They overthrew him over time to spare them.
Anthony Davis scored 34 points, James got the light basket 12.8 seconds before the end of the match, and the Lakers players approached first place in the Western Conference Qualifiers by beating the Los Angeles Clippers 103-101 Thursday night in a second match. Reopening the NBA header.
James scored 16 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists to help the Lakers move six and a half games against Clippers in the West with seven games remaining. Kyle Cosma added 16 points.
"It was a real match for me, two teams fighting. Davis said," I can't complain about the first game. "
Paul George scored 30 points and Cohee Leonard scored 28 points for Clippers, who advanced 11 points midway through third in a match with deep deviations and flows. Clippers took the lead after Running 26-5. The Lakers immediately disproved a distance of 36-14 to regain control.
And it's still reaching the last moments.
George's index cut the index at 1:50 to the left of the Lakers' advance to 99-98. James made his way to layup in the following possession, then George hit three others to tie the match in 101 with 29 seconds remaining.
James followed his own mistake in the aisle to get the luminous basket, then he was great at his last defensive possession - as he forced the ball out of Leonard's hand and covered George in a wrong three-point attempt at the bell.
"We can't go through a self-inflicted wound and I think we had a lot of it," said Divers Rivers coach Clippers Doc Rivers, whose team is still short with Lou Williams still in quarantine and Montrezel Harel tends to a family matter. Abandoned 29 pips of trading value.
On Thursday saw the NBA's first game in 141 days, as the League returned to action after the coronavirus pandemic stopped it.
James - who would win his first assistant title - had five in the first quarter to persuade his team mates, then a first basket of reboots came early in the second quarter to put the Lakers 37-24.
But for a period that essentially spanned an entire quarter, spanning the second and third periods, the Lakers were unable to take a shot. They went 1 versus 10 to finish the half, then 0 versus 9 to start the third game and Clippers took advantage.
They turned deficit 50-40 to the edge of 66-55 in third place. Then it was the Lakers 'turn to rise, splitting Clippers' lead to 77-76 in fourth place.
"It was a good match," Leonard said. "There's still fun out there. It was great to be back on Earth."
Utah Jazz 106-104 New Orleans Pelicans
Rudi Joubert sank two free throws with 6.9 seconds remaining to crown the performance of 14 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks, giving Utah Jazz a 106-104 victory over New Orleans Pelicans in the first game of the NBA restart.
New Orleans, who led most of the game by up to 16 points, almost pulled the victory over time when Brandon Ingram's three-point bid ended at the bitter end of his 23-point night.
Zion Williamson, who missed nearly two weeks of training after leaving the team in a family medical case on July 16, was considered fit to start, although his playing time was limited.
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He scored 13 points in just over 15 minutes, the most prominent of which was a couple diving into an alley, one on almost half of Lonzo Ball's stadium.
But Williamson did a good examination with 7:19 he left in the fourth quarter and had to watch the tense end of the margin.
Jordan Clarkson scored 23 points for Utah and helped lead the second half, while Donovan Mitchell and Mike Conley added 20 points.
JJ Reddick scored 21, including Clutch 3 to tie at 102, while Jiro Holly added 20 points to New Orleans.
The game tied in 104 after a free-kick on the net with 32 seconds left and Conley missed the game in less than 20 seconds, but he got his own bounce. The jazz moved the ball to Mitchell, whose career forced New Orleans to collapse on it before he fed Jupert in a dunk attempt that Derek Voys could only stop accidentally.
Joubert, who featured prominently in the defense with Williamson's clear rejection and favor, quietly made the spoils.
With Williamson on the bench, New Orleans closed in the first quarter with a 18-4 distance, most notably Dong Ingram and the finger roll and 3, to take the lead until late in the fourth quarter.
New Orleans got its biggest lead when the Holiday trip reached 60-44 late in the second quarter, and the Pelican took advantage of 60-48 at the end of the first half.
After Utah systematically withdrew in one possession in the middle of the fourth quarter, New Orleans threatened to withdraw again when Ingram hit a pullout and Eton Moore hit three goals made possible by Jackson Hayes' offensive recovery.
But jazz wasn't over, as she walked 11-1, was distinguished by Mitchell's floating glass drive, advancing by three points in the last four minutes
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