Huffington Postさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Huffington PostInstagram)「WNBA players joined NBA players and other athletes on Wednesday in protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake, with the women’s basketball league’s players announcing all three of the night’s games were canceled.⁠ ⁠ The Washington Mystics made a powerful statement ahead of their scheduled game against the Atlanta Dream. Team members wore white shirts with a letter each to spell out Blake’s name. On the backs, the shirts had seven bullet holes, representing each time the 29-year-old Black man was shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday night.⁠ ⁠ Players from the Mystics, Dream, Minnesota Lynx, Connecticut Sun, Phoenix Mercury and Los Angeles Sparks all took a knee and linked arms on the court during the national anthem in Bradenton, Florida, where the teams are staying in a “bubble” to prevent coronavirus infections. After the anthem played, they walked off.⁠ ⁠ The move came amid a wave of unrest and protests in Kenosha and other cities over the shooting, which doctors have said left Blake paralyzed from the waist down.⁠ ⁠ “We absolutely support them,” WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert said of the players’ decision.⁠ ⁠ Mystics guard Ariel Atkins said in a statement with her team on the court that “this isn’t just about basketball.”⁠ ⁠ “When most of us go home, we still are Black,” she said. “We’re not just basketball players. If you think we are, then don’t watch us, you’re watching the wrong sport, because we’re so much more than that.”⁠ ⁠ “If we do this unified as a league, it looks different. Because this league is close to if not over 80% Black women. We have cousins, we have brothers, we have sisters, mothers, everyone. We matter ... I’m tired of telling people that.”⁠ ⁠ Read more at our link in bio. // 📷 Getty Images // 📝 @josieharvey」8月27日 22時18分