Plenty of stories swirl around this restarted NBA season. It’s impossible for there not to be, when you consider the state of the world we’re living in. The need, then, to make this about more than basketball has been there from the start.
You can tell this simply from the players’ interactions with media: the repeated assertion to talk about racial and social injustices, the obvious desire to be part of a national (and international) protest of the gross and unfair.
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson was the perfect mouthpiece for this just yesterday, centring his comments on the need for media to spread the players’ message.