<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, who just also happens to be Trump’s son-in-law, had a few words of criticism for LeBron James and the other NBA players who refused to take the court in protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kushner said the players are fortunate they are wealthy enough to “take a night off from work,” suggesting they’re not actually doing anything to solve the problem, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/27/kushner-knocks-nba-protests-invites-lebron-to-white-house/">New York Post</a> reports.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Look, I think that the NBA players are very fortunate that they have the financial position where they’re able to take a night off from work without having to have the consequences to themselves financially,” Jared Kushner said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “So they have that luxury, which is great.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kushner told Politico in a separate interview that he plans to reach out to LeBron James and invite him to the White House to discuss policies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If LeBron James reaches out to the White House or we reach out to him, we’re happy to talk with him and say let’s both agree on what we both want to accomplish and let’s come up with a common pathway to get there,” Kushner said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kushner made it clear that the NBA players, who have recently displayed a lot of activism, can do more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I think that they’ve put a lot of slogans out. But I think what we need to do is turn that from slogans and signals to actual action that’s going to solve the problem,” Kushner said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kushner is speaking out following the <a href="https://dev.theshaderoom.com/various-teams-across-major-league-sports-boycott-their-games-in-the-wake-of-the-jacob-blake-shooting/">mass boycotts</a> of the NBA by its players. The decision by the Milwaukee Bucks to postpone their game with the Orlando Magic Wednesday night led the NBA to postpone all three of Wednesday’s playoff games.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After a push by the Lakers and Clippers players to end the season, it seems the NBA decided that the remainder of the season will go on.</span></p>
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