The women’s pro-basketball team the Los Angeles Sparks left the floor and skipped the national anthem ahead of their WNBA playoff game in Minneapolis on Sunday.

The host team, Minnesota Lynx, lined up on the free-throw line in front of their bench with their arms locked in unity moments before Game 1 of the best-of-3 finals.

Once the anthem was finished, the defending-champion Sparks returned.

WNBA Commissioner Lisa Borders told reporters before the game that she expected a protest.

“Our players are some of the most socially conscious that you will ever find,” she said. “You have seen that in the years before I got here, and I’m sure it will continue in the future.”

The host Lynx are no strangers to protest, either.

They drew the ire of local cops last year when they wore t-shirts during warm-ups supporting the Black Lives Matter movement and decrying the police slayings of African-Americans Alton Sterling and Philando Castile.