Bill Bradley, former U.S. Senator and two-time NBA champion, released a statement Sunday responding to President Donald Trump's recent comments and tweets regarding protests in the NBA and NFL.
"My entire life has been founded on the knowledge that sports is a model of what's best about America and about humanity: a model of discipline, aspiration, selflessness, and excellence.
"Those who would denigrate those values, who would use our shared love of the game to divide us, show a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes us great as a country, and as human beings - not to mention a fundamental understanding of what sports is actually about.