Bang.
Bang, bang, bang.
Bang, bang.
Bang.
Seven shots fired by a cop into the back of an unarmed Black man, another gruesome and saddening, maddening, incomprehensible video to digest.
This time in Kenosha, Wisc. This time the victim was Jacob Blake.
This time. Until there’s a next time.
More of the same sickening reality.
And professional basketball players — fathers and husbands and sons — left to lay bare their feelings and explain the unexplainable, to fight a tiring but vital fight.
“Coming down here and making the choice to play was supposed to not be in vain, but it’s just starting to feel like everything we’re doing is just going through the motions and nothing’s really changing.