cawacko
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We'll obviously never know now but:
Now that the dust has settled on NBA commissioner Adam Silver's life-long ban of Donald Sterling, it's becoming clear just how far players were willing to go in their stance against the racism espoused by the disgraced Los Angeles Clippers owner.
The verdict: outright boycott.
Following Silver's announcement, NBPA vice president Roger Mason Jr. indicated to reporters in Los Angeles that players were prepared to sit out Tuesday night's Round 1 games if they were unsatisfied with the punishment levied by the league office.
"I heard from our players and all of our players felt like boycotting the games tonight," Mason said, per ESPNLosAngeles.com's Arash Markazi. "We're talking about all NBA players. We're talking about the playoff games tonight."
The boycott would have affected not just the game between the Clippers and Golden State Warriors, but also the Game 5 battles between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Memphis Grizzlies, as well as the Chicago Bulls and Washington Wizards. Mason said player representatives from all 30 NBA teams had weighed in and decided this was the best course of action...
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...uesdays-games-if-donald-sterling-wasnt-banned
Warriors Had the Blueprint For a Dramatic Boycott Ready to Go
The plan was set, the product of a 30-minute players meeting.
The Warriors were going to go through pre-game warm-ups and take part in the national anthem and starting line-up introductions. They were going to take the floor for the jump ball, dapping up the Clippers players as is customary before games.
Then once the ball was in the air, they were just going to walk off. All 15 of them.
“It would have been our only chance to make a statement in front of the biggest audience that we weren’t going to accept anything but the maximum punishment,” Curry said. “We would deal with the consequences later but we were not going to play.”
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/thomps...blueprint-for-a-dramatic-boycott-ready-to-go/
