NBA ready to resume games after players' racial injustice boycott

Stephen Curry (C), US basketball player from the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA), plays his skills during a press conference following his Underrated Tour, a series of basketball camps for high school players, at a university in Tokyo on June 23, 2019

The National Basketball Association (NBA) said on Thursday it hopes to resume play in a day or two after a boycott by players protesting racial injustice and police brutality, while President Donald Trump denounced the league.

NBA Executive Vice President Mike Bass said the league is "hopeful" it will resume games Friday or Saturday after the protest, which was sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and led to game cancellations in other sports as well. The NBA players, a majority of whom are Black, decided not to extend the boycott in a meeting on their quarantined campus at Disney World in Florida, where games have occurred due to the coronavirus pandemic.