On August 26, 2020, some professional athletes in the United States began to go on strike for their respective sports contests in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. After the video of Blake's shooting in which he was seriously injured went viral, protests and riots broke out in the city of Kenosha and elsewhere. As a result of the shooting of Blake and the protests which followed, on August 26, professional athletes refused to play in their scheduled sports events, beginning with the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Some athletes in the NBA, Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), and Major League Soccer (MLS) decided not to play their games on August 26. Also on that day, the Women's Tennis Association Cincinnati Masters organizers postponed the tournament for one day to August 27, 2020. The strikes extended into August 27 and 28 when players from the National Hockey League (NHL) walked out of their playoff games. In response to the athlete strikes, nine National Football League (NFL) teams canceled their scheduled practices on August 27, 2020. The athlete strikes occurred as part of the broader racial unrest in the United States in 2020 and 2021. Background On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man, was murdered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by a white police officer who was arresting Floyd for allegedly using a counterfeit bill. Floyd's murder sparked national and international protests against police brutality, lack of police accountability, and racism. As a result of Floyd's murder, NBA players began wearing T-shirts with the words I Can't Breathe while warming up before their NBA games. The precedent for the NBA allowing the players to protest wearing the I Can't Breathe T-shirt was set in 2014 after the police killing of Eric Garner. Professional athletic strikes In response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, professional athletes in the United States walked out of and refused to play in their scheduled sporting events. The broader protests were organized under the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, which advocates non-violent civil disobedience to protest against police brutality and racially motivated violence against black people. The Black Lives Matter logo was displayed on the National Basketball Association (NBA) courts during the 2020 playoffs. When the NBA restarted the 2019–20 season in July 2020, NBA players knelt during the national