The Milwaukee Bucks refuse to play against the Orlando Magic in an NBA playoff game Wednesday night to protest Blake’s shot – getting the league to announce all three playoff games scheduled that night would be postponed.

That same evening, the WNBA ad his Wednesday night games would also be rescheduled after the Washington Mystics, wearing t-shirts with bullet hole patterns on the back to represent Blake’s injuries, chose to withdraw to play, according to ESPN, with the support of three other teams in the league.

The league then announced Thursday afternoon that the three games scheduled that night would also be postponed and reprogrammed.

Tennis player Naomi Osaka also ad On Wednesday night, she would forgo her Western & Southern Open tournament semifinal match scheduled for the next morning, saying in a statement “As a black woman I feel there are much bigger questions. to sort out that require immediate attention, rather than watching me play tennis ”, and shortly after the release of his statement, it was announced that the tournament would be pause all play Thursday as “a position against racial inequality”.

Three Major League Baseball games were postponed after players from the Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds said they would not play Wednesday “to highlight the issues that really matter, in particular racial injustice and systematic oppression,” according to a statement.

Other individual baseball players did not attend their team’s games, including Colorado Rockies player Matt Kemp, who said in a statement posted on Instagram: “I couldn’t play this game that i love so much tonight knowing the pain and anguish my people continue to feel.

Five Major League Soccer games scheduled for Wednesday night were also has recalled after the players have made the decision not to participate in the matches during a strike.

Baltimore crows has recalled to train on Friday morning in order to “carry out a team unification session around social justice reform,” the football team tweeted, a day after making a series of demands in a declaration Thursday, including calling for the officers involved in Blake’s shooting as well as Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old unarmed black woman, to be arrested and charged.