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I've been watching the Toronto Raptors NBA team through the last few games of this delayed season as well as most of the first round games against the Brooklyn Nets. Kyle Lowry, one of the key leaders of the team, sprained his ankle in the first quarter of the last game. Fortunately there was a break between that last game and when the first game against the Boston Celtics would play to give him the opportunity to heal. If the severity of the sprain is low, it is possible he would be able to return to play during the second round.

Then, four days ago, a Black Man named Jacob Blake was shot in the back by a police officer in Wisconsin. He did not die, but the most recent report I have is that he is now paralyzed from the waist down in addition to having other internal injuries. Yesterday, the Milwaukee Bucks refused to exit their locker room at the time their game was supposed to start, as an athlete protest against police brutality. The NBA then decided to postpone all three of the games that were scheduled that day.

The WNBA and MLB as well as at least one prominent tennis player all paused their league play or dropped out of the tennis tournament to also indicate their support for Black Lives Matter.

There are media reports that Toronto's first game of the second round, scheduled for today, may not happen as the postponement of games yesterday by the NBA could persist into today. There are further talks that the remainder of the NBA playoffs ought to be scrapped.

I, of course, fully support any action that can help bring about change such that we would no longer need to have a BLM movement, but have instead, an All Lives Matter movement.

If the second round of the playoffs for the Raptors does get pushed, or the playoffs cancelled, this will give Kyle Lowry more time to heal his sprained ankle.