The first time a police officer pulled a gun on DeMar DeRozan he was 15, he thinks; he and two friends were just riding bikes. Kyle Lowry had it happen too: he was 13, maybe, and he says they were just being kids. Fred VanVleet was 13 when he and his teenage older brothers were pulled over for speeding, and the police officer just pulled the gun out, didn’t point it at them, just held it as they spoke. VanVleet never forgot.
As sports has been pulled into the gasoline-and-matches soaked orbit of the President of the United States, the arguments are by their nature bigger, balder, stupider.