Chris Mannix: "My guess is that it doesn’t get far enough that there’s any kind of boycott amongst the players, but I've been down here since the beginning, since early to mid-July, and there was a change in spirit today. This bubble environment feels broken. I have never seen this type of reaction. Obviously, there have been passionate speeches, if you will, about getting justice for Breonna Taylor, and people talk about George Floyd and what happened there, but what happened over the weekend, I just get the sense that broke a lot of people. I think there were a lot of players that, on some level, didn’t want to come down to Orlando anyway for the reasons that Kyrie and a couple others were pushing for. The fact that they’ve been down here for a month-plus, they’ve been doing what they’ve set out to do, and something like this happened… It just felt like if guys had the option to opt out right now, I bet 25% of the league would do it. Things have changed that dramatically in the last 48 hours." (Full Segment Above)
Listen to Sports Illustrated writer and Fox Sports NBA reporter Chris Mannix join The Odd Couple with Chris Broussard and Rob Parker to discuss how morale at the NBA’s Bubble has plummeted amongst the players in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting in Wisconsin over the weekend.
Check out the interview above as Mannix details the potential of a player boycott in Orlando, and describes how he believes ‘25%’ of the league would opt-out overnight if they had the chance.
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