Sacramento Kings principal owner Vivek Ranadive took center court after Thursday night's 105-90 victory over the Atlanta Hawks to acknowledge that this night turned into something bigger than basketball.
To the sparse crowd in Golden 1 Center that could attend the game before the entrance was blocked by a human chain of protesters, Ranadive first expressed sympathy to the family of Stephon Clark, who was fatally shot by police in south Sacramento earlier in the week.
"On behalf of the players, the executives, ownership and the entire Kings family, first of all, we wanted to express our deepest sympathies to the family.