LOS ANGELES—Chris Boucher needed to say something because so few others are.
He had learned — long after the fact just like so many others — that American basketball star Brittney Griner was in a Russian jail and the Raptors forward was shocked with the lack of an outcry about it.
He had the chance last weekend and he took it because it was important to him to do it, to shine at least a little bit more light on the issue because in the insular world of pro sports, it wasn’t being publicized enough.