--- title: WNBA Players Walk Off Court During the National Anthem description: The WNBA's season began with players walking off the court during the anthem played, in a message for racial justice. canonical: https://time.com/5871954/wnba-national-anthem-breonna-taylor/ author: Sanya Mansoor article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-07-26T18:07:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T17:39:02.000Z article:section: Sports og:title: WNBA Players Walk Off Court During the National Anthem and Dedicate Delayed Season to Breonna Taylor og:description: "[I]t's ridiculous that justice and freedom are just not offered to everybody equally" og:url: https://time.com/5871954/wnba-national-anthem-breonna-taylor/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a9e69d1d822feec/698a10bf4ee262fae7317c1d/GettyImages-1250715710.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Juneteenth Marked With Celebrations And Marches In Cities Across America og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WNBA Players Walk Off Court During the National Anthem and Dedicate Delayed Season to Breonna Taylor twitter:description: "[I]t's ridiculous that justice and freedom are just not offered to everybody equally" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4a9e69d1d822feec/698a10bf4ee262fae7317c1d/GettyImages-1250715710.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # WNBA Players Walk Off Court Before the National Anthem and Dedicate Delayed Season to Breonna Taylor > Sponsored content. 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Members of the Washington Wizards and Washington Mystics basketball teams march to the MLK Memorial to support Black Lives Matter and mark the Juneteenth holiday June 19, 2020 in Washington, D.C.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Sanya Mansoor](https://time.com/author/sanya-mansoor/)  ## Sanya Mansoor Updated: Dec 12, 2023 5:39 PM UTCPublished: Jul 26, 2020 6:07 PM UTC The WNBA’s season began Saturday with players from the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty walking off the court before the national anthem played, in a message for racial justice as protests around the country continue. The players jointly then dedicated 26 seconds of silence and the entire season to Breonna Taylor. “We are dedicating this season to Breonna Taylor — an outstanding EMT who was murdered over 130 days ago in her home,” Layshia Clarendon, a player for New York Liberty said before the game began. [Taylor was shot](https://time.com/5853502/beyonce-breonna-taylor-kentucky-letter-protests/) and killed by Louisville Metro police after they entered her Kentucky home in March. > [](https://twitter.com/espn/status/1287232705734881287) Clarendon also said the season would be dedicated to the “Say Her Name Campaign — a campaign committed to saying the names and fighting for justice for [Black women” who are “so often forgotten](https://time.com/5847970/police-brutality-black-women-girls/) in this fight for justice.” “We will say her name: Sandra Bland, [Atatiana Jefferson](https://time.com/5701182/fort-worth-police-department-community-distrust/), [Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells](https://time.com/5853325/black-trans-women-killed-riah-milton-dominique-remmie-fells-trump/) and Breonna Taylor,” Clarendon said. “We will be a voice for the voiceless.” > [](https://twitter.com/espn/status/1287057606272520192) After Clarendon’s remarks, players for both teams — who were wearing jerseys with Taylor’s full name inscribed on the back — observed a 26-second long silence for the EMT, signifying the age when she was killed. Clarendon [told ESPN](https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/%5F/id/29536768/storm-liberty-honor-breonna-taylor-prior-wnba-opener) that “kneeling doesn’t even feel like enough to protest.” “I don’t want to hear the anthem, I don’t want to stand out there. I don’t want to be anywhere near it, because it’s ridiculous that justice and freedom are just not offered to everybody equally,” she said. > [](https://twitter.com/WNBA/status/1287207223303770112) Nneka Ogwumike, a player for the Los Angeles Sparks, [said](https://twitter.com/WNBA/status/1287207223303770112?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) Taylor’s mother and Georgia politician Stacey Abrams had previously spoken with members of the WNBA. “We just hope we’re doing what we discussed on that call: upholding her name, celebrating her and obviously bringing awareness,” Ogwumike said. “Black women are so often forgotten in this world and in a league where we have 70% and plus black women, this is our reality.” The WNBA was one of several sport leagues across the world that had its schedule disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic and [announced](https://www.wnba.com/news/wnba-announces-plan-to-tip-off-2020-season/) in June that the season would include “22 regular-season games followed by a traditional playoff format” to be played without fans at the venues. “We have always been at the forefront of initiatives with strong support of #BlackLivesMatter, #SayHerName, the LGBTQ+ community, gun control, voting rights, #MeToo, mental health and the list goes on,” said Women’s National Basketball Players Association president Nneka Ogwumike in a June 15 statement. “This is not only necessary from a humanitarian perspective, but it may be one of the biggest opportunities that this league has and will ever have.” **Correction, July 27** _The original version of this story_ _misstated when players from the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty walked off the court. 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