NBA 2K20 paused its online play for two hours and provided free Black Lives Matter and I Can't Breathe in-game shirts to players, according to a tweet by ESPN. This comes in the wake of the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the protests that followed.
The video in the tweet shows a group of players walking around in-game wearing the shirts--an event further collaborated by other Twitter users, as seen below. 2K Games had previously announced that they increased funding for their 2K Foundations Program by $1 million to expand "its mission to help fight racial injustice and inequalities in black communities across the globe."
NBA 2K paused online play for 2 hours and provided its players with free Black Lives Matter & I Can’t Breathe shirts today in honor of George Floyd.
— ESPN (@espn) June 4, 2020
(via floyd_773/Instagram) pic.twitter.com/en68yTVuDI
In honor of George Floyd all online play will be suspended from 2PM - 4PM EST in #NBA2K20 pic.twitter.com/ViJC3ldDOg
— 2K News🤫 (@2K20Insider) June 4, 2020
Other companies, like EA, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo, have all released statements calling for an end to racism.
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