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Dwight Howard and Rajon Rondo initially wanted to cancel the season, per Tania Ganguli and Broderick Turner of the Los Angeles Times.

The two players of the Los Angeles Lakers believed it would be better to end the season and serve the community on the front lines.

“After a night’s sleep, the Lakers met again as a team. Players from other teams filed into the general meeting space late Thursday morning and waited for the Lakers to join them.

Howard and Lakers guard Rajon Rondo, who is from Louisville, Ky., where Taylor was killed, had been the two most prominent players in favor of not finishing the season. That group felt they would better serve the community on the front lines.

But more of them wanted to play with so much on the line financially and the ability to continue having a platform to speak; not to mention the chance to win a championship,” Ganguli and Turner report.

NBA players decided to boycott Wednesday’s and Thursday’s games in order to protest for the shooting of Jacob Blake.

The league will resume the playoffs on Saturday.