Multiple NBA teams found ways to send a message on a day that saw violent protesters storm the United States Capitol.
Three games that took place on the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 6 featured the basketball players taking a knee in quiet protest.
Prior to the showdown between the Golden State Warriors and Los Angeles Clippers, Stephen Curry and the rest of the players kneeled during the national anthem and held a moment of silence. Steph and several other Warriors teammates wore "Black Lives Matter" T-shirts while warming up.
Almost all of the players on the Boston Celtics and Miami Heat kneeled during the anthem ahead of their game as well.
The members of the Milwaukee Bucks and Detroit Pistons took a knee immediately after their tip-off. ESPN reported that the Bucks opted to kneel for a span of seven seconds to symbolize the seven times that Jacob Blake was shot by a police officer in August in Kenosha, Wisc. This followed prosecutors announcing on Jan. 5 that the officers involved in the shooting will not be charged.
The Celtics and Heat issued a joint statement saying that they opted to play the game "to try to bring joy into people's lives" but that they still wanted to use the platform to highlight ongoing injustice.