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AN ESSAY: Basketball is back in an uncertain world

We're reliving our national nightmare. Again and again and again and again. Last weekend, Jacob Blake was shot seven times — in the back, — in front of his children by police officers in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The shooting left Blake paralyzed and as he recovered in the hospital, he was handcuffed to his bed. After public outcry, officers agreed to take the cuffs off of him as he lay in his hospital bed.

Following the Blake shooting, protesters again came out in the community to express their fears and outrage about the latest shooting of a Black person at the hands of police officers in the United States.