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100 NBA Employees Go On Strike In Solidarity With Players Pushing For Social Justice

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Approximately 100 employees in the NBA's league office will go on strike on Friday in solidarity with NBA and WNBA players who pushing for social justice.

The staff members are across 10 departments including basketball operations, cybersecurity, finance and marketing.

"We believe the NBA, its leadership, and the Board of Governors unequivocally have the leverage to do more to directly address and combat police brutality and systemic racism in this country," the staff wrote in a letter to Commissioner Adam Silver and Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum.

"We acknowledge and credit all the work the NBA has already done," the letter continued. "But we have the power to have a greater impact. The NBA has not done enough proactively, and rather has relied too heavily on our players... We understand that we are a business, but fears of losing revenue and advertisers should not numb us to the cries of Black men, women and children that continue to be oppressed in the same communities in which we play."

Silver sent an email to employees on Friday morning, prior to the staff notifying high ranking NBA officials of their decision to protest.



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