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Adam Silver Details Talking To LeBron James & Kawhi Leonard During NBA Player Boycott 

On August 26, the then remaining NBA teams boycotted their most recent playoff games in the wake of Jacob Blake being shot several times in the back as he entered a car where his three children were seated, and due to the ongoing systematic racism in the United States, leaving the continuation of the playoffs in jeopardy.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver now revealed and detailed sitting down with LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard, to talk about the situation and to come up with with a compromise and end the players’ boycott.

Per Bob Costas of CNN:

“I spoke to both of those players and I think there was a lot of emotion around the initial decision to stop play,

“I think, in part, it wasn’t initially a decision that had been made collectively by all the players. And I think LeBron and Kawhi, given a chance to sort of step back, think about the larger impact that they could have there, the implications of not playing—incidentally, thousands of jobs for people in the Orlando community, thousands of jobs in team cities—if we had stopped playing.”