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WNBA Players Escalate Protest of Anti-BLM Team Owner, Kelly Loeffler [1]
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Date: 2020-08-04
Warnock, in an email, said he was “honored and humbled by the overwhelming support from the W.N.B.A. players.”
“This movement gives us the opportunity to fight for what we believe in, and I stand by all athletes promoting social justice on and off the court,” Warnock said. “Senator Loeffler and those like her who seek to silence and dismiss others when they speak up for justice have planted themselves on the wrong side of history.”
Williams said the idea to publicly endorse Warnock came from Sue Bird, the 11-time All-Star guard for the Seattle Storm. Both Williams and Bird are executives in the players’ union. Top players also consulted with Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost a close race for the Georgia governor’s seat in 2018 to Brian Kemp, a Republican. Abrams joined the players’ union board of advocates last summer.
In planning the demonstration, the players thought it was important that the T-shirts debuted during a game that was nationally televised. Tuesday’s game between the Dream and Mercury was scheduled to be broadcast on ESPN 2. Williams said that the Dream players will continue to wear the T-shirts in upcoming games, and other teams have agreed to do so, too.
“We can’t really do anything about her ownership,” Williams said, referring to Loeffler. “That’s not something we can control. We can control who we vote for.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/sports/basketball/wnba-dream-loeffler-warnock.html
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