1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:17,974 --> 00:00:21,456 [ basketball bouncing ] 4 00:00:21,586 --> 00:00:23,632 [ birds tweeting ] 5 00:00:43,434 --> 00:00:46,220 MICHELE ROBERTS: Hundreds of thousands of young kids every day 6 00:00:46,350 --> 00:00:48,178 dream of being an NBA player. 7 00:00:48,309 --> 00:00:51,007 [ cheering and applause ] 8 00:00:54,184 --> 00:00:57,231 Obviously, most of the players look like me. 9 00:00:59,581 --> 00:01:01,670 Most of the players are African American. 10 00:01:04,019 --> 00:01:07,023 Many of the players come from humble backgrounds, 11 00:01:07,154 --> 00:01:09,199 as do I, 12 00:01:09,330 --> 00:01:11,810 and all of them have had 13 00:01:11,941 --> 00:01:14,944 to work really hard 14 00:01:15,075 --> 00:01:18,774 and defy odds to get to where they are. 15 00:01:18,904 --> 00:01:20,732 ANNOUNCER: LeBron James... 16 00:01:22,733 --> 00:01:24,126 LeBRON JAMES: You know, this is 17 00:01:24,257 --> 00:01:25,737 a longtime dream to finally accomplish this. 18 00:01:25,868 --> 00:01:27,391 I'm shaking right now. 19 00:01:27,522 --> 00:01:28,739 CHRIS PAUL: You know, if you step on my toes, 20 00:01:28,870 --> 00:01:30,263 I'mma tell you about it. 21 00:01:30,394 --> 00:01:31,700 ANNOUNCER: Basketball fans are 22 00:01:31,830 --> 00:01:33,919 waiting to see how you're going to do. 23 00:01:36,052 --> 00:01:38,794 ROBERTS: It makes me all the more protective 24 00:01:38,924 --> 00:01:42,102 of what they've achieved and their power. 25 00:01:54,983 --> 00:01:58,161 MARC SPEARS: I can't explain this year, man. 26 00:01:58,292 --> 00:02:01,033 And, uh, you know, we used-- we used to... 27 00:02:01,164 --> 00:02:03,601 I don't know how you answer that question. 28 00:02:05,212 --> 00:02:08,128 It's like that, uh... 29 00:02:08,258 --> 00:02:10,173 I feel like every time you turn around the corner, 30 00:02:10,304 --> 00:02:13,002 you're getting punched in the face. 31 00:02:13,133 --> 00:02:15,091 Nah, I ain't gonna get hit again. Bam! 32 00:02:16,919 --> 00:02:18,267 ANNOUNCER: With the first pick 33 00:02:18,399 --> 00:02:21,445 in the 2019 NBA Draft, 34 00:02:21,576 --> 00:02:25,232 the New Orleans Pelicans select Zion Williamson 35 00:02:25,362 --> 00:02:27,103 from Duke University. 36 00:02:27,234 --> 00:02:31,194 The Memphis Grizzlies select Ja Morant. 37 00:02:31,325 --> 00:02:33,283 RJ Barrett. De'Andre Hunter. 38 00:02:33,414 --> 00:02:36,416 Matisse Thybulle from the University of Washington. 39 00:02:37,766 --> 00:02:39,420 MATISSE THYBULLE: You get drafted, right? 40 00:02:39,550 --> 00:02:41,248 Walk up, whole time you're just thinking, like, 41 00:02:41,378 --> 00:02:42,858 don't trip, like, make sure to look 42 00:02:42,988 --> 00:02:44,555 in the right direction at the camera. 43 00:02:44,686 --> 00:02:46,775 And then you get off the stage, and it was, like, 44 00:02:46,905 --> 00:02:48,777 the best way I could describe it was a media gauntlet. 45 00:02:48,907 --> 00:02:50,561 INTERVIEWER: How your mom Elizabeth 46 00:02:50,692 --> 00:02:52,563 still inspires you to this day-- what does it mean 47 00:02:52,694 --> 00:02:55,392 to walk across that stage in honor of her? 48 00:02:58,656 --> 00:03:00,789 I wish she was here to see it. 49 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:03,008 I mean, my mom's a doctor, she took care of people, 50 00:03:03,139 --> 00:03:05,185 so I try to give back as much as I can. 51 00:03:05,315 --> 00:03:06,621 And now being in the NBA, 52 00:03:06,751 --> 00:03:08,492 I think I'll have even more of a stage 53 00:03:08,623 --> 00:03:10,015 to do that now, so... 54 00:03:10,146 --> 00:03:11,756 Before you know it, it's 2:00 in the morning. 55 00:03:11,887 --> 00:03:13,454 Like, okay, we need you to be in Philly 56 00:03:13,584 --> 00:03:14,977 at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow. 57 00:03:15,107 --> 00:03:17,065 And I'm like, "What?" 58 00:03:17,197 --> 00:03:18,459 Let's dance. 59 00:03:18,589 --> 00:03:20,200 [ crowd cheering ] 60 00:03:20,374 --> 00:03:23,246 ♪ 61 00:03:24,769 --> 00:03:26,902 Yeah, it was almost like the first day of school again. 62 00:03:27,032 --> 00:03:28,164 INTERVIEWER: What's it gonna be like seeing yourself in the game? 63 00:03:28,295 --> 00:03:29,818 That might be the craziest part. 64 00:03:32,037 --> 00:03:34,997 Yeah, it has been a tough year. 65 00:03:35,127 --> 00:03:36,999 Things are as uncertain now as they have ever been. 66 00:03:37,129 --> 00:03:39,523 -No justice! -CROWD: No peace! 67 00:03:39,654 --> 00:03:41,569 -No justice! -No peace! 68 00:03:41,699 --> 00:03:43,701 REPORTER: The NBA is back! 69 00:03:43,832 --> 00:03:46,182 COMMENTATOR: Gets turned around, Delon Wright, blocked! 70 00:03:46,313 --> 00:03:47,618 Epic play by Gobert. 71 00:03:47,749 --> 00:03:50,012 I'll just say that humanity has been... 72 00:03:50,142 --> 00:03:52,144 really been out of our comfort zone right now. 73 00:03:52,275 --> 00:03:53,668 -Coronavirus. -Coronavirus. -Coronavirus. 74 00:03:53,798 --> 00:03:55,931 -This is their new hoax. -...is likely to spread. 75 00:03:56,061 --> 00:03:57,672 COMMENTATOR: Danny Green! 76 00:03:59,064 --> 00:04:00,675 DANNY GREEN: If we can get through this year 77 00:04:00,805 --> 00:04:03,981 and actually come out on top as an organization, man... 78 00:04:04,113 --> 00:04:05,592 We could make it through this season. 79 00:04:05,723 --> 00:04:06,897 We could not make it through this season, like, 80 00:04:07,029 --> 00:04:09,074 who knows what's going to happen? 81 00:04:09,205 --> 00:04:11,163 COMMENTATOR: Donovan Mitchell going to the roof right here. 82 00:04:14,036 --> 00:04:16,691 COMMENTATOR: What a shot by Jaylen Brown! 83 00:04:16,821 --> 00:04:18,432 The bubble experience, it was a little different. 84 00:04:18,562 --> 00:04:21,043 Um, you know, it helped me see a lot of things, 85 00:04:21,173 --> 00:04:23,393 uh, for what they really are, with no distractions. 86 00:04:23,524 --> 00:04:25,700 -No justice! -CROWD: No peace! 87 00:04:25,830 --> 00:04:28,006 There's such a spotlight on-- on every situation. 88 00:04:28,137 --> 00:04:29,660 COMMENTATOR: Alley-oop to McGee, slam dunk! 89 00:04:29,791 --> 00:04:32,272 And Haslem scored the goal. 90 00:04:32,402 --> 00:04:34,230 2nd COMMENTATOR: Solo! 91 00:04:34,361 --> 00:04:36,101 COMMENTATOR: Wow! What a game for Matisse Thybulle! 92 00:04:36,232 --> 00:04:37,929 THYBULLE: My rookie year was 93 00:04:38,060 --> 00:04:39,714 definitely an experience, one to remember. 94 00:04:39,844 --> 00:04:42,325 We were, like, we knew it was gonna be a little crazy, 95 00:04:42,456 --> 00:04:43,848 but we definitely didn't expect-- 96 00:04:43,979 --> 00:04:45,197 there's no way we could have expected 97 00:04:45,328 --> 00:04:46,590 what actually happened. 98 00:04:46,721 --> 00:04:48,984 COMMENTATOR: For the win! Yeah! 99 00:04:51,552 --> 00:04:53,684 2nd COMMENTATOR: Wow, the crowd on their feet. 100 00:04:53,815 --> 00:04:55,382 That's what they came to see. 101 00:04:55,512 --> 00:04:56,992 [ overlapping reporters in various languages ] 102 00:04:57,122 --> 00:04:58,428 REPORTER: ...have identified the cause 103 00:04:58,559 --> 00:05:00,430 of the mysterious pneumonia... 104 00:05:02,650 --> 00:05:04,347 DANILO GALLINARI: Just because of what was going on 105 00:05:04,478 --> 00:05:07,611 in-in China first and how quick the virus 106 00:05:07,742 --> 00:05:09,700 was spreading all over Europe 107 00:05:09,831 --> 00:05:12,703 and hitting-- hitting Italy first. 108 00:05:12,834 --> 00:05:17,099 Nobody was prepared for, uh, a tragedy of this magnitude. 109 00:05:17,229 --> 00:05:19,362 And so I was like, well, it's gonna take-- 110 00:05:19,493 --> 00:05:22,104 it's gonna take just a couple of weeks, and we're gonna be 111 00:05:22,234 --> 00:05:23,888 in the same situation in the States. 112 00:05:24,019 --> 00:05:26,978 We have lost nobody to coronavirus 113 00:05:27,109 --> 00:05:29,285 -in the United States. -[ cheering and applause ] 114 00:05:29,416 --> 00:05:31,592 We had an administration in the White House 115 00:05:31,722 --> 00:05:33,724 that was telling us things are gonna be all right. 116 00:05:33,855 --> 00:05:35,943 It's certainly not as serious as it appears. 117 00:05:36,074 --> 00:05:37,859 Are there worries about a pandemic at this point? 118 00:05:37,989 --> 00:05:39,687 No, not at all, and we're-- 119 00:05:39,817 --> 00:05:41,776 we have it totally under control. 120 00:05:41,906 --> 00:05:43,299 We were, like, 30 days ahead 121 00:05:43,430 --> 00:05:45,736 because we were reading Italian newspapers. 122 00:05:45,867 --> 00:05:48,086 We were talking to our relatives back home. 123 00:05:48,217 --> 00:05:52,352 GALLINARI: In Italy, the restrictions were different than the States. 124 00:05:52,482 --> 00:05:54,615 My mom was by herself, 125 00:05:54,745 --> 00:05:57,487 and she was not able to get out of the house 126 00:05:57,618 --> 00:05:59,359 for almost three months. 127 00:05:59,489 --> 00:06:01,926 Uh, I can't imagine, you know, uh, 128 00:06:02,057 --> 00:06:04,407 a life, uh, without getting out 129 00:06:04,538 --> 00:06:06,366 your apartment, your house. 130 00:06:09,499 --> 00:06:11,936 ZURETTI: Those people in the U.S. were just discounting 131 00:06:12,067 --> 00:06:14,286 even the possibility that the virus would actually come. 132 00:06:14,417 --> 00:06:17,028 Because, yeah, we shut down the flights. 133 00:06:18,595 --> 00:06:21,163 It was so, uh, naive 134 00:06:21,293 --> 00:06:24,645 to think that the virus was not already all over the place. 135 00:06:25,733 --> 00:06:27,299 REPORTER: And there are fears 136 00:06:27,430 --> 00:06:29,563 the coronavirus has now reached the United States. 137 00:06:29,693 --> 00:06:32,261 2nd REPORTER: ...increases every day, so this is very worrying. 138 00:06:32,392 --> 00:06:34,742 All right, so the coronavirus is making its impact felt 139 00:06:34,872 --> 00:06:36,483 -across the world of sports. -And they have shut down 140 00:06:36,613 --> 00:06:38,136 the Italian Soccer League, they shut down Chinese 141 00:06:38,267 --> 00:06:39,877 -Basketball Association-- -Maybe we're gonna have 142 00:06:40,008 --> 00:06:41,705 the games, which is what they've done in Europe, 143 00:06:41,836 --> 00:06:43,228 but you're not gonna be able to have fans in there. 144 00:06:43,359 --> 00:06:44,621 Ain't got the fans in the crowd, 145 00:06:44,752 --> 00:06:46,362 that's who I play for; if I show up 146 00:06:46,493 --> 00:06:47,972 to an arena, and there ain't no fans in there, 147 00:06:48,103 --> 00:06:49,583 -I ain't playing. -...administration has 148 00:06:49,713 --> 00:06:52,629 taken the most aggressive action in modern history. 149 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,762 What is the next step? 'Cause if one player-- 150 00:06:54,892 --> 00:06:57,025 one player-- comes down with the virus... 151 00:06:57,155 --> 00:07:00,332 Everything was foggy at that particular moment in time, 152 00:07:00,463 --> 00:07:01,986 and it was incredibly scary. 153 00:07:02,117 --> 00:07:03,640 I'm not an idiot. I could tell there's 154 00:07:03,771 --> 00:07:05,294 nothing unique about Americans that's gonna 155 00:07:05,425 --> 00:07:07,165 stop this thing from coming to us. 156 00:07:07,296 --> 00:07:09,167 It wasn't if it was gonna affect our game. 157 00:07:09,298 --> 00:07:11,431 It was-- It was simply a question of when. 158 00:07:17,175 --> 00:07:19,439 I mean, we just gotta be prepared for anything. 159 00:07:19,568 --> 00:07:21,484 And at the same time, 160 00:07:21,615 --> 00:07:23,878 keep living, keep doing what we do. 161 00:07:24,008 --> 00:07:27,316 COMMENTATOR: The first two games between these teams were in Utah. 162 00:07:27,447 --> 00:07:29,797 2nd COMMENTATOR: Now, they don't have the services of Rudy Gobert. 163 00:07:29,927 --> 00:07:32,321 Now, that guy's not here tonight. 164 00:07:32,452 --> 00:07:34,279 Rudy Gobert, he's out with an illness. 165 00:07:38,153 --> 00:07:40,024 COMMENTATOR: Now Chris Paul went in... 166 00:07:40,155 --> 00:07:42,810 poked his head in to try to get a little more information. 167 00:07:42,940 --> 00:07:45,073 As soon as I walk on the court, 168 00:07:45,203 --> 00:07:47,641 I don't see the-- the referees in their spots. 169 00:07:49,556 --> 00:07:52,123 COMMENTATOR: And you see the teams heading back to the locker room. 170 00:07:53,342 --> 00:07:54,604 I knew something was-- was wrong. 171 00:07:54,735 --> 00:07:57,738 My head went right to the virus. 172 00:08:01,263 --> 00:08:03,178 ...tonight has been postponed. 173 00:08:03,308 --> 00:08:04,919 You are all safe. 174 00:08:05,049 --> 00:08:07,225 Thank you for coming out tonight. 175 00:08:07,356 --> 00:08:09,140 MARK CUBAN: I mean, it's not within the realm of possibilities. 176 00:08:09,271 --> 00:08:12,013 It's just, it seemed more like out of a movie than reality. 177 00:08:14,102 --> 00:08:15,843 We shut it down. 178 00:08:15,973 --> 00:08:20,324 The NBA suspended its season after a player on the Utah Jazz 179 00:08:20,456 --> 00:08:22,763 tested positive for coronavirus. 180 00:08:22,893 --> 00:08:25,330 RUDY GOBERT: And, yeah, I was the first NBA player to test positive. 181 00:08:25,461 --> 00:08:28,116 Instead of saying that the-the COVID caused 182 00:08:28,246 --> 00:08:29,900 the shutdown of NBA, all the headlines were saying 183 00:08:30,030 --> 00:08:31,598 that Rudy Gobert caused it. 184 00:08:31,728 --> 00:08:35,210 ZURETTI: From Rudy Gobert to the bubble. 185 00:08:36,298 --> 00:08:38,256 How unfair is that? 186 00:08:38,387 --> 00:08:40,128 REPORTER: Now we're hearing, uh, Donovan Mitchell, 187 00:08:40,258 --> 00:08:41,825 after Rudy Gobert. 188 00:08:41,956 --> 00:08:43,958 Donovan Mitchell had no symptoms. 189 00:08:44,088 --> 00:08:46,874 Solo in here, playing video games all day 190 00:08:47,004 --> 00:08:48,615 and, um, can't wait to get back out there 191 00:08:48,745 --> 00:08:50,442 and play in front of the best fans in the world. 192 00:08:50,573 --> 00:08:52,488 So we need role models, like Gobert now, 193 00:08:52,619 --> 00:08:55,709 to come out and say, hey, I didn't take this seriously. 194 00:08:57,188 --> 00:08:59,408 I wish I would've took this thing more seriously. 195 00:08:59,539 --> 00:09:01,758 And I hope everyone else is gonna do so. 196 00:09:02,933 --> 00:09:05,109 It was strange, a strange feeling. 197 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:07,068 You know, this-- this whole thing happened 198 00:09:07,198 --> 00:09:09,113 so-- so suddenly. 199 00:09:09,244 --> 00:09:10,593 Immediately as a player, you start thinking about, 200 00:09:10,724 --> 00:09:12,203 well, what's gonna happen to my contract? 201 00:09:12,334 --> 00:09:13,944 How we gonna practice? How we gonna just stay in shape? 202 00:09:14,075 --> 00:09:15,467 And then is the game gonna be able to continue? 203 00:09:15,598 --> 00:09:16,904 How are we gonna work through this? 204 00:09:17,034 --> 00:09:18,296 Can you kind of take me through 205 00:09:18,427 --> 00:09:19,994 the way Wednesday played out? 206 00:09:20,124 --> 00:09:22,300 I was like, this is about to get real, you know? 207 00:09:22,431 --> 00:09:24,433 Life was not normal after that. 208 00:09:24,564 --> 00:09:26,174 ADAM SILVER: I think that there was a clear consensus, 209 00:09:26,304 --> 00:09:27,828 I think we're at the point now that... 210 00:09:27,958 --> 00:09:30,004 that this has been declared a pandemic. 211 00:09:30,134 --> 00:09:32,615 [ distant police sirens ] 212 00:09:42,059 --> 00:09:44,061 ♪ 213 00:09:51,329 --> 00:09:53,549 It was a nightmare. 214 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:55,377 I'm from New York, so my family, 215 00:09:55,507 --> 00:09:57,945 every week, there was, you know, two or three people that we knew 216 00:09:58,075 --> 00:10:01,339 were passing away. 217 00:10:01,426 --> 00:10:04,516 SMITH: Uh, for a multi-billion-dollar industry 218 00:10:04,647 --> 00:10:07,041 to completely shut down, 219 00:10:07,171 --> 00:10:11,219 that's when you knew COVID-19, the coronavirus pandemic, 220 00:10:11,349 --> 00:10:14,048 had reached astronomical proportions 221 00:10:14,178 --> 00:10:17,051 and that it was going to ravage the lives 222 00:10:17,181 --> 00:10:19,488 not just of Americans 223 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:21,272 but everyone across this globe. 224 00:10:21,403 --> 00:10:23,884 As a basketball fan, I'm depressed. 225 00:10:24,014 --> 00:10:26,582 As a human being and as an American citizen, 226 00:10:26,713 --> 00:10:27,975 I'm getting to the point 227 00:10:28,105 --> 00:10:29,367 where I'm scared as hell. 228 00:10:32,762 --> 00:10:35,199 SHAQUILLE O'NEAL: Uh, what was your thought process in saying, 229 00:10:35,330 --> 00:10:37,158 okay, we're going to suspend, as opposed to 230 00:10:37,288 --> 00:10:38,855 cancel the rest of the season? 231 00:10:38,986 --> 00:10:41,118 I think the goal-- and been talking a lot 232 00:10:41,249 --> 00:10:43,120 to Michele Roberts, the Players Association, 233 00:10:43,251 --> 00:10:44,818 just talked to Chris Paul, the president of the union, 234 00:10:44,948 --> 00:10:46,341 again earlier tonight-- 235 00:10:46,471 --> 00:10:48,038 coming together, what makes sense here 236 00:10:48,169 --> 00:10:50,911 without compromising anyone's safety? 237 00:10:53,609 --> 00:10:55,742 ROBERTS: Then the phone calls started from the players. 238 00:10:55,872 --> 00:10:58,483 I always love talking to players, but frankly, 239 00:10:58,614 --> 00:11:01,182 I didn't talk to players at this-- at this level, ever. 240 00:11:01,312 --> 00:11:03,663 And I was fielding 15 player calls a day. 241 00:11:03,793 --> 00:11:06,578 As time went on and more people were dying, 242 00:11:06,709 --> 00:11:09,494 and then this myth of, under 30, you're safe, 243 00:11:09,625 --> 00:11:13,324 began to reveal itself as being exactly that, a myth, 244 00:11:13,455 --> 00:11:14,935 then the players were, well, 245 00:11:15,065 --> 00:11:16,458 you know, what do you mean, return to play? 246 00:11:16,588 --> 00:11:18,503 I'm not trying to die for basketball. 247 00:11:18,634 --> 00:11:19,853 Maybe this is too much, y'all. 248 00:11:19,983 --> 00:11:21,550 We don't-- We don't need to go play. 249 00:11:21,681 --> 00:11:23,683 And I remember we called Michele, 250 00:11:23,813 --> 00:11:25,293 "We ain't gonna do this. 251 00:11:25,423 --> 00:11:27,425 We ain't gonna do this. Like, it's too much." 252 00:11:27,556 --> 00:11:29,471 She said, "All right, fellas, that's cool. 253 00:11:29,601 --> 00:11:31,560 But this, this, this, this, and this." 254 00:11:31,691 --> 00:11:34,041 REPORTER: There are gonna be hundreds if not thousands 255 00:11:34,171 --> 00:11:36,043 of people who lose their paychecks. 256 00:11:36,173 --> 00:11:37,914 I mean, this is gonna have a big impact 257 00:11:38,045 --> 00:11:39,742 not just for those of us who like to watch 258 00:11:39,873 --> 00:11:42,049 but for those people for whom it's their livelihood. 259 00:11:42,179 --> 00:11:44,181 ROBERTS: And when we did the math, 260 00:11:44,312 --> 00:11:46,183 it was pretty obvious that there was gonna be 261 00:11:46,314 --> 00:11:47,489 a substantial financial hit. 262 00:11:47,619 --> 00:11:49,186 You know, I could be like, 263 00:11:49,317 --> 00:11:51,406 look, man, I got enough money. I don't care what we do. 264 00:11:51,536 --> 00:11:53,277 Whatever, I'm gonna be good. But that ain't-- 265 00:11:53,408 --> 00:11:55,671 that ain't how this work, you know, 'cause we're a union. 266 00:11:55,802 --> 00:11:57,325 We got a full body of players, 267 00:11:57,455 --> 00:11:59,806 and we got young guys who came in our league 268 00:11:59,936 --> 00:12:02,939 who didn't foresee anything like this. 269 00:12:03,070 --> 00:12:05,550 Our players' average stay in the NBA is-- 270 00:12:05,681 --> 00:12:08,858 is under-- it's about 4.2 years. 271 00:12:08,989 --> 00:12:12,035 Some of us are not gonna be around for a while. 272 00:12:12,166 --> 00:12:13,733 There's so many more issues 273 00:12:13,863 --> 00:12:16,561 than players being able to play here, okay? 274 00:12:16,692 --> 00:12:18,999 The pandemic has affected everyone 275 00:12:19,129 --> 00:12:22,045 who needs something to root for, uh, 276 00:12:22,176 --> 00:12:24,308 something to get up in the morning to look forward to. 277 00:12:24,439 --> 00:12:26,354 If the games ever stop, Rome stops. 278 00:12:26,484 --> 00:12:29,836 If Americans don't have the joy of sports 279 00:12:29,966 --> 00:12:32,186 and entertainment, this country may go berserk. 280 00:12:32,316 --> 00:12:34,405 Assuming they can figure out a way to do it mechanically, 281 00:12:34,536 --> 00:12:36,276 there will be a restart, yes? 282 00:12:37,582 --> 00:12:38,801 -The bubble. -The bubble. -The bubble. 283 00:12:38,932 --> 00:12:41,412 -The bubble. -They were like, "What?!" 284 00:12:41,543 --> 00:12:43,284 What did you think first when you heard about the bubble? 285 00:12:43,414 --> 00:12:45,025 I mean, it sounded crazy. 286 00:12:45,155 --> 00:12:48,028 The environment outside is so unsafe 287 00:12:48,158 --> 00:12:50,073 that you have to seal yourself in a bubble to play? 288 00:12:50,204 --> 00:12:51,988 JOE ROGOWSKI: We had to deal with the virus, 289 00:12:52,119 --> 00:12:53,990 and that was our number one priority, our number one issue. 290 00:12:54,121 --> 00:12:55,992 So we had to get the players' perspective, we had to get 291 00:12:56,123 --> 00:12:57,820 the medical community's perspective, 292 00:12:57,951 --> 00:12:59,517 we had to get the league's perspective, 293 00:12:59,648 --> 00:13:01,128 um, and just coming together and-- 294 00:13:01,258 --> 00:13:04,827 and trying to create this $100 million bubble. 295 00:13:04,958 --> 00:13:07,264 You know how many skeptics were out there 296 00:13:07,395 --> 00:13:10,311 telling them they couldn't do it-- it couldn't be done? 297 00:13:10,441 --> 00:13:13,793 JaVALE McGEE: I did have a hesitation going into the bubble, 298 00:13:13,923 --> 00:13:16,708 um, just because I... I don't like closed spaces. 299 00:13:16,839 --> 00:13:19,189 I don't like restrictions. 300 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:22,453 It was like over 100 pages of the health protocols. 301 00:13:22,584 --> 00:13:24,629 ROGOWSKI: I think that helped, 302 00:13:24,760 --> 00:13:26,893 um, with a lot of the anxiety of the players, 303 00:13:27,023 --> 00:13:28,242 and it helped educate them. 304 00:13:28,372 --> 00:13:29,896 I mean, I didn't read it. 305 00:13:30,026 --> 00:13:30,940 It's almost like the Apple Terms and Conditions. 306 00:13:31,071 --> 00:13:32,507 You're like, yeah, I accept. 307 00:13:32,637 --> 00:13:34,465 But there were countless conversation 308 00:13:34,596 --> 00:13:36,728 about which barbers would come 309 00:13:36,859 --> 00:13:38,078 into the bubble. 310 00:13:38,208 --> 00:13:40,080 -[ electric razor buzzing ] -Whoo! 311 00:13:40,210 --> 00:13:41,603 Make sure you guys have ice. 312 00:13:42,865 --> 00:13:44,693 We need, uh, semis of ice. 313 00:13:44,824 --> 00:13:45,955 -Aah! -Whoo! 314 00:13:46,086 --> 00:13:47,696 See what it takes to be great? 315 00:13:47,827 --> 00:13:49,611 I love wine. Had a lot of cases of wine 316 00:13:49,741 --> 00:13:51,656 -shipped to the bubble. -[ clicks tongue ] 317 00:13:51,787 --> 00:13:53,484 I knew most of the players wanted to be in Vegas, 318 00:13:53,615 --> 00:13:55,399 uh, but they knew they wouldn't be able 319 00:13:55,530 --> 00:13:58,968 to keep these dudes contained if they were in Vegas. 320 00:13:59,099 --> 00:14:00,709 So, as a result of that, 321 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:03,146 you know, they had them in Orlando, at Mickey Mouse. 322 00:14:07,150 --> 00:14:09,457 ♪ 323 00:14:09,587 --> 00:14:12,199 ROGOWSKI: Fortunately, at that time, Disney was shut down as well. 324 00:14:12,329 --> 00:14:13,983 They were aware of what the needs 325 00:14:14,114 --> 00:14:15,898 of an NBA team environment would be. 326 00:14:16,029 --> 00:14:17,900 Disney was able to implement it for us. 327 00:14:18,031 --> 00:14:20,555 The NBA believes once we get down to Orlando 328 00:14:20,685 --> 00:14:22,296 in that bubble, that things will be safe 329 00:14:22,426 --> 00:14:24,037 and that this will work. 330 00:14:24,167 --> 00:14:28,041 I frankly did not plan to come for any length of time 331 00:14:28,171 --> 00:14:30,521 when the players started saying, 332 00:14:30,651 --> 00:14:32,306 "Michele, you coming, right?" 333 00:14:32,436 --> 00:14:35,744 I said, "Yeah, I'm coming." I guess I'm coming. 334 00:14:37,877 --> 00:14:40,967 GOBERT: None of us really knew if it was gonna be safe or not, 335 00:14:41,097 --> 00:14:42,707 but with time and with, you know, 336 00:14:42,838 --> 00:14:45,797 having the conversations, we felt more and more confident 337 00:14:45,928 --> 00:14:48,365 that this thing could-- could-- could happen. 338 00:14:48,496 --> 00:14:50,237 Just as we were starting to get in a rhythm and, like, 339 00:14:50,367 --> 00:14:52,108 okay, this is how we can be helpful... 340 00:14:56,199 --> 00:14:58,332 OFFICER: Let me see your hands. 341 00:14:58,462 --> 00:15:00,421 GEORGE FLOYD: I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 342 00:15:00,551 --> 00:15:01,857 -Let me see your other hand. -Please, please, Mr. Officer-- 343 00:15:01,988 --> 00:15:03,772 -Both hands. -I didn't do nothing. 344 00:15:03,903 --> 00:15:05,600 -Put your hands up right now. -Hey, please, please-- 345 00:15:05,730 --> 00:15:06,862 -Let me see your other hand. -I didn't do nothing. 346 00:15:06,993 --> 00:15:08,995 All right. What'd I do, though? 347 00:15:09,125 --> 00:15:11,040 WOMAN: Look how they ignore people out here. 348 00:15:11,171 --> 00:15:12,955 Got him kneed on the ground. 349 00:15:13,086 --> 00:15:14,826 -[ Floyd groaning ] -He crying... 350 00:15:14,957 --> 00:15:19,092 FLOYD: I'm in pain. Please, please... 351 00:15:19,222 --> 00:15:21,311 Please, I can't breathe. 352 00:15:21,442 --> 00:15:23,052 Please, man. 353 00:15:23,183 --> 00:15:25,054 Please, somebody help me... 354 00:15:25,185 --> 00:15:28,362 [ Floyd groaning ] 355 00:15:28,492 --> 00:15:30,494 WOMAN: How long y'all gotta hold him down? 356 00:15:30,625 --> 00:15:32,192 OFFICER: Why you don't do drugs, kids. 357 00:15:32,322 --> 00:15:34,281 MAN: It ain't about drugs, bro. 358 00:15:34,411 --> 00:15:36,022 WOMAN: Nah, y'all don't gotta put... 359 00:15:36,151 --> 00:15:37,284 Right. 360 00:15:37,414 --> 00:15:39,199 MAN: He is human, bro. 361 00:15:39,329 --> 00:15:41,026 Bro, you got him down, man. Let him breathe, least. 362 00:15:41,157 --> 00:15:42,811 FLOYD: I can't breathe. 363 00:15:42,942 --> 00:15:44,595 2nd MAN: I've been trying to help out... 364 00:15:44,726 --> 00:15:46,728 [ ragged sobs ] 365 00:15:48,251 --> 00:15:50,123 3rd MAN: One of my homeys died the same way back... 366 00:15:50,253 --> 00:15:53,300 -FLOYD: I'm about to die... -OFFICER: Relax. 367 00:15:53,474 --> 00:15:55,563 ♪ 368 00:16:00,220 --> 00:16:02,483 You know, at my age, I've-- this is not news, 369 00:16:02,613 --> 00:16:04,659 and that's what's so-- so frustrating. 370 00:16:04,789 --> 00:16:07,183 It's not news. And so when I saw it, 371 00:16:07,314 --> 00:16:09,751 I said, you know, kinda, here we go again. 372 00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:12,928 That was, um... 373 00:16:13,059 --> 00:16:16,497 that was hard to stomach, you know? 374 00:16:16,627 --> 00:16:18,760 And I-- I think it... 375 00:16:18,890 --> 00:16:20,805 I think it shocked the world 376 00:16:20,936 --> 00:16:25,332 that this was done so nonchalantly, a person's life 377 00:16:25,462 --> 00:16:27,377 was taken away. 378 00:16:27,508 --> 00:16:30,076 KILLER MIKE: It's not easy to watch a, um, a man 379 00:16:30,206 --> 00:16:32,904 kneel on the neck of a man. 380 00:16:33,035 --> 00:16:35,211 When George Floyd-- when everybody watched that video, 381 00:16:35,342 --> 00:16:38,127 I was overwhelmed with emotion, of course. 382 00:16:38,258 --> 00:16:41,522 It was incredibly sad. It was incredibly depressing, 383 00:16:41,651 --> 00:16:43,306 but to say that that's something 384 00:16:43,437 --> 00:16:45,004 that's normal, that wasn't normal. 385 00:16:45,134 --> 00:16:46,701 Even with the most heinous things 386 00:16:46,831 --> 00:16:49,617 that we have experienced in American history. 387 00:16:51,009 --> 00:16:52,881 I don't know if we can recall 388 00:16:53,012 --> 00:16:55,230 somebody leaning on the neck of a Black man 389 00:16:55,362 --> 00:17:00,105 for eight minutes and 46 seconds while the cameras are rolling. 390 00:17:05,372 --> 00:17:07,852 I don't know if we can say definitively 391 00:17:07,983 --> 00:17:09,940 that we've ever seen anything close to that. 392 00:17:11,855 --> 00:17:14,162 Having said all of that, 393 00:17:14,294 --> 00:17:17,775 the other things are unfortunately 394 00:17:17,906 --> 00:17:21,127 yet incredulously normal. 395 00:17:21,257 --> 00:17:23,172 I'm here for my baby. [ sobbing ] 396 00:17:23,303 --> 00:17:26,175 And I'm here for George. 397 00:17:26,306 --> 00:17:29,352 Because I want justice for him. 398 00:17:29,483 --> 00:17:31,267 PAUL: Try to shelter your kids 399 00:17:31,398 --> 00:17:33,878 from certain experiences, but you contemplate, 400 00:17:34,009 --> 00:17:35,402 should I show this to my kids? 401 00:17:35,532 --> 00:17:37,447 Right? Like, is it too much for her? 402 00:17:37,578 --> 00:17:39,754 Is this too heavy to show an eight-year-old little girl? 403 00:17:39,884 --> 00:17:42,017 But we showed her. We showed her. 404 00:17:42,148 --> 00:17:45,020 And so as my daughter, as she watched the video 405 00:17:45,151 --> 00:17:47,414 and she saw what happened, she cried. 406 00:17:47,544 --> 00:17:49,329 She said, "Is this gonna happen to Chris?" 407 00:17:49,459 --> 00:17:51,157 And that's my son. 408 00:17:51,287 --> 00:17:53,246 INTERVIEWER: What do you want people to know? 409 00:17:53,376 --> 00:17:54,812 Mm... 410 00:17:54,943 --> 00:17:56,945 kinda that I miss him. 411 00:17:58,642 --> 00:18:00,470 PAUL: No matter what you do, right? 412 00:18:00,601 --> 00:18:02,733 You can just be into lifting weights. 413 00:18:02,864 --> 00:18:04,561 You might just be tall, right? 414 00:18:04,692 --> 00:18:06,911 But you're just always looked at as a threat, 415 00:18:07,042 --> 00:18:08,739 and that's not a good feeling. 416 00:18:11,133 --> 00:18:12,743 We're all sitting in quarantine and feeling helpless 417 00:18:12,874 --> 00:18:14,484 like we couldn't do anything. 418 00:18:14,615 --> 00:18:17,096 And, um... 419 00:18:17,226 --> 00:18:20,055 the idea struck to me was that I wanted to go 420 00:18:20,186 --> 00:18:24,755 be in a place and protest, where I felt like my voice 421 00:18:24,886 --> 00:18:26,801 and my presence mattered most. 422 00:18:26,931 --> 00:18:29,717 And the first place that came to mind was Georgia. 423 00:18:29,847 --> 00:18:32,023 -LEADER: No justice! -CROWD: No peace! 424 00:18:32,154 --> 00:18:36,245 -No justice! No justice! -No peace! No peace! 425 00:18:36,376 --> 00:18:38,247 REPORTER: Throughout the country, 426 00:18:38,378 --> 00:18:40,336 more protests today from New York to California, 427 00:18:40,467 --> 00:18:43,252 tens of thousands remembering George Floyd 428 00:18:43,383 --> 00:18:44,906 and demanding change. 429 00:18:45,036 --> 00:18:46,777 2nd REPORTER: For the 12th night in a row, 430 00:18:46,908 --> 00:18:48,388 a coast-to-coast call to action. 431 00:18:48,518 --> 00:18:50,085 3rd REPORTER: Nationwide protests... 432 00:18:50,216 --> 00:18:51,652 4th REPORTER: ...for not just George Floyd 433 00:18:51,782 --> 00:18:53,262 but also Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. 434 00:18:53,393 --> 00:18:55,960 Similar scenes not only in Minneapolis, 435 00:18:56,091 --> 00:18:58,093 but Denver we saw yesterday. 436 00:18:58,224 --> 00:19:00,400 -New York City. -Straight to the White House. 437 00:19:00,530 --> 00:19:02,053 4th REPORTER: This is in Atlanta, Georgia. 438 00:19:02,184 --> 00:19:04,404 -Across four continents. -From Brazil to Iran. 439 00:19:04,534 --> 00:19:06,232 -In the heart of London. -In Berlin. 440 00:19:06,362 --> 00:19:08,538 The protests were largely peaceful. 441 00:19:08,669 --> 00:19:10,018 Being an NBA player don't exclude me 442 00:19:10,149 --> 00:19:12,499 from no conversations at all. 443 00:19:12,629 --> 00:19:14,153 First and foremost, I'm a Black man. 444 00:19:14,283 --> 00:19:15,937 And I'm a member of this community. 445 00:19:17,286 --> 00:19:20,420 THYBULLE: It's one thing to make a tweet, 446 00:19:20,550 --> 00:19:22,117 but it's another thing to actually go out there 447 00:19:22,248 --> 00:19:24,380 and embody what you're-- what you're saying. 448 00:19:24,511 --> 00:19:28,254 JAMES BALDWIN: The reason that Black people are in the streets 449 00:19:28,384 --> 00:19:29,864 has to do with the lives 450 00:19:29,994 --> 00:19:31,866 they are forced to lead in this country. 451 00:19:31,996 --> 00:19:33,476 [ crowd chanting ] 452 00:19:33,607 --> 00:19:35,696 And they're forced to lead these lives 453 00:19:35,826 --> 00:19:38,133 by the indifference 454 00:19:38,264 --> 00:19:40,744 and the, um, apathy 455 00:19:40,875 --> 00:19:44,748 and a certain kind of ignorance, a very willful ignorance, 456 00:19:44,879 --> 00:19:46,663 on the part of their co-citizens. 457 00:19:46,794 --> 00:19:49,144 At the end of the day, we want this world to be a safe place. 458 00:19:49,275 --> 00:19:50,841 We want this world to be a free place. 459 00:19:50,972 --> 00:19:52,887 And we want our kids to grow up better than we did. 460 00:19:53,017 --> 00:19:55,368 BALDWIN: I want... 461 00:19:55,498 --> 00:19:57,457 exactly what you want. 462 00:19:57,587 --> 00:19:59,894 And you know what you want. 463 00:20:00,024 --> 00:20:02,113 -What do we want? -CROWD: Justice! 464 00:20:02,244 --> 00:20:03,985 -When do we want it? -Now! 465 00:20:04,115 --> 00:20:05,900 -What do we want? -Justice! 466 00:20:06,030 --> 00:20:07,771 -When do we want it? -Now! 467 00:20:07,902 --> 00:20:09,686 This is not just your fight, okay? 468 00:20:09,817 --> 00:20:11,427 This is everybody's fight. 469 00:20:11,558 --> 00:20:15,170 This should be about, uh, everyone's against racism. 470 00:20:15,301 --> 00:20:19,174 I got a grandfather that marched next to Dr. King in the '60s. 471 00:20:19,305 --> 00:20:21,524 And he was amazing, he would be proud to see us all here. 472 00:20:21,655 --> 00:20:23,004 LEADER: Louder! 473 00:20:23,134 --> 00:20:24,571 -CROWD: I can't breathe! -LEADER: What? 474 00:20:24,701 --> 00:20:26,834 -I can't breathe! -What? 475 00:20:26,964 --> 00:20:28,618 -I can't breathe! -I can't breathe! 476 00:20:28,749 --> 00:20:29,880 I can't breathe! 477 00:20:30,011 --> 00:20:32,622 -I can't breathe! -I can't breathe! 478 00:20:32,753 --> 00:20:34,798 STEPHEN JACKSON: They're not going to demean the character of George Floyd. 479 00:20:34,929 --> 00:20:36,322 -That's right. Mm-hmm. -My twin. 480 00:20:36,452 --> 00:20:38,541 A lot of times, when police do things 481 00:20:38,672 --> 00:20:40,978 that they know that's wrong, the first thing they try to do 482 00:20:41,109 --> 00:20:43,416 is cover it up and bring up your background 483 00:20:43,546 --> 00:20:45,853 to make it seem like the bullshit that they did 484 00:20:45,983 --> 00:20:48,856 -was worthy. -[ scattered affirmations ] 485 00:20:48,986 --> 00:20:50,858 When was murder ever worthy? 486 00:20:50,988 --> 00:20:53,252 [ crowd murmuring ] 487 00:20:53,382 --> 00:20:55,645 We are the community of Black Life Freedom! 488 00:20:55,776 --> 00:20:58,257 UDONIS HASLEM: These situations with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, 489 00:20:58,387 --> 00:21:01,434 um, and-- and just the list can continue to just go on and on. 490 00:21:01,564 --> 00:21:03,479 There definitely has to be justice for George-- 491 00:21:03,610 --> 00:21:05,264 I love this city, I love these people. 492 00:21:05,394 --> 00:21:06,874 And I'm standing with y'all on everything 493 00:21:07,004 --> 00:21:08,658 that y'all believe in and what we believe in, 494 00:21:08,789 --> 00:21:10,443 and we gonna do it the right way. 495 00:21:10,573 --> 00:21:11,966 People that don't understand fully right now, 496 00:21:12,096 --> 00:21:13,620 but they're trying to understand, 497 00:21:13,750 --> 00:21:15,056 and they want to be a part of change, man, 498 00:21:15,186 --> 00:21:16,492 embrace those people and teach 'em. 499 00:21:16,623 --> 00:21:18,189 You know what I'm saying? Don't-- 500 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:19,974 Don't, um, outcast them because we're no different 501 00:21:20,104 --> 00:21:22,368 than the people who we're trying to, you know, fight against 502 00:21:22,498 --> 00:21:24,892 and who we're complaining about if we do that. 503 00:21:25,022 --> 00:21:26,720 We condemn what happened in Minneapolis. 504 00:21:26,850 --> 00:21:29,549 I took my helmet off, they laid their batons down. 505 00:21:29,679 --> 00:21:32,813 I want to make this a parade, not a protest. 506 00:21:32,943 --> 00:21:35,119 [ cheering ] 507 00:21:35,250 --> 00:21:38,645 It was actually one of the, um, moments 508 00:21:38,775 --> 00:21:42,823 in-- in 2020 where there was a feeling of great unity. 509 00:21:42,953 --> 00:21:44,259 -CROWD: I know! -LEADER: Change is here! 510 00:21:44,390 --> 00:21:46,653 CROWD: Change is here! 511 00:21:46,783 --> 00:21:50,961 JULIUS ERVING: And, uh, we need more feelings of great unity, 512 00:21:51,092 --> 00:21:53,312 but we need less things to be the triggers. 513 00:21:53,442 --> 00:21:57,577 CROWD: George Floyd! George Floyd! 514 00:21:57,707 --> 00:22:00,057 That changed the world. 515 00:22:08,022 --> 00:22:09,763 INTERVIEWER: Kimberly, I'll just roll camera. 516 00:22:09,893 --> 00:22:11,547 -We'll jump right in. -JONES: Okay, let's go. 517 00:22:11,678 --> 00:22:13,897 All right, let's roll cameras A and B, and sound. 518 00:22:14,028 --> 00:22:16,683 MAN: One second... 519 00:22:16,813 --> 00:22:18,859 JONES: My name is Kimberly Jones. 520 00:22:18,989 --> 00:22:20,208 I am a writer/activist. 521 00:22:20,339 --> 00:22:21,992 I am originally from Chicago, 522 00:22:22,123 --> 00:22:25,605 but I've been living a long time here in A-town. 523 00:22:25,735 --> 00:22:28,085 And yeah, I'm just-- I'm-- I'm just here 524 00:22:28,216 --> 00:22:30,349 for the elevation of my people. 525 00:22:32,046 --> 00:22:34,527 This movement that we call the Black Lives Matter movement 526 00:22:34,657 --> 00:22:37,747 is really the Black Deaths Matter movement. 527 00:22:37,878 --> 00:22:40,707 Because we haven't begun to tap into Black lives. 528 00:22:40,837 --> 00:22:42,273 Because if you're talking about Black lives, 529 00:22:42,404 --> 00:22:43,710 you have to talk about the living. 530 00:22:43,840 --> 00:22:46,626 Then you have to talk about health care, 531 00:22:46,756 --> 00:22:49,716 education, homeownership, 532 00:22:49,846 --> 00:22:53,241 equity, mass incarceration. 533 00:22:53,372 --> 00:22:55,025 This is lives. 534 00:22:55,156 --> 00:22:58,725 This is dealing in making sure there is safety and equity 535 00:22:58,855 --> 00:23:00,857 and equality for Black lives. 536 00:23:00,988 --> 00:23:03,860 We're in the streets every day fighting for recognition 537 00:23:03,991 --> 00:23:06,254 and justice for Black death. 538 00:23:08,212 --> 00:23:09,997 When they isolate these stories, 539 00:23:10,127 --> 00:23:14,654 it makes it seem like it's not as severe as it really is. 540 00:23:16,438 --> 00:23:19,441 There's been over 470 murders at the hands of law enforcement 541 00:23:19,572 --> 00:23:21,312 of Black and Indigenous people 542 00:23:21,443 --> 00:23:24,315 in the last 20 years in the state of Minnesota. 543 00:23:24,446 --> 00:23:26,579 And they sweep them under the rug, 544 00:23:26,709 --> 00:23:28,929 and everybody moves on. 545 00:23:29,059 --> 00:23:30,626 BIANCA AUSTIN: And that's what we're big on in Breonna's case. 546 00:23:30,757 --> 00:23:33,150 Because nobody has been held accountable 547 00:23:33,281 --> 00:23:34,674 for anything, you know? 548 00:23:34,804 --> 00:23:36,327 So it's just like a real 549 00:23:36,458 --> 00:23:39,287 slap in the face for a young lady to be killed 550 00:23:39,418 --> 00:23:41,550 in her own home and nobody be held accountable for it. 551 00:23:41,681 --> 00:23:43,247 [ indistinct chatter ] 552 00:23:43,378 --> 00:23:46,120 WOMAN: Oh, Bree... Oh, my God. 553 00:23:46,250 --> 00:23:47,817 TOSHIRA GARRAWAY: I have a relationship 554 00:23:47,948 --> 00:23:50,907 with Emmett Till's family. 555 00:23:50,994 --> 00:23:53,736 His family looked at the pictures of my son's father, 556 00:23:53,867 --> 00:23:56,957 the way that he was found, and she's the one that said, 557 00:23:57,087 --> 00:23:59,263 "This is a modern-day lynching. 558 00:23:59,394 --> 00:24:01,352 This reminds me of Emmett Till." 559 00:24:01,483 --> 00:24:04,138 And that is what these murders are. 560 00:24:06,270 --> 00:24:09,360 JONES: My mother-- not my grandmother, 561 00:24:09,491 --> 00:24:11,145 not my great-grandmother-- 562 00:24:11,275 --> 00:24:14,235 remembers watching someone get hung 563 00:24:14,365 --> 00:24:17,107 and still just wants equality for her grandkids 564 00:24:17,238 --> 00:24:20,459 when she should really want to burn this bitch to the ground. 565 00:24:20,589 --> 00:24:23,331 REPORTER: The protestors on the street right now 566 00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:25,594 need to remember that the citywide curfew 567 00:24:25,725 --> 00:24:29,250 takes effect at 8:00 tonight. 568 00:24:29,380 --> 00:24:33,602 You're not honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. 569 00:24:33,733 --> 00:24:35,691 and the civil rights movement. 570 00:24:35,822 --> 00:24:38,477 If you want change in America, go and register to vote. 571 00:24:40,261 --> 00:24:41,567 Go home. 572 00:24:44,570 --> 00:24:47,007 I'm not one to lose hope. 573 00:24:47,137 --> 00:24:48,791 I keep on hoping. 574 00:24:48,922 --> 00:24:50,445 -Go inside now! -Get inside! 575 00:24:50,576 --> 00:24:52,229 -Get in the house! -[ screaming ] 576 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:54,841 MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: The realistic fact is 577 00:24:54,971 --> 00:24:57,670 that we still have a long, long way to go. 578 00:24:59,062 --> 00:25:02,152 We have many more difficult days ahead. 579 00:25:02,283 --> 00:25:04,328 MAN: Stop firing your fucking gun! 580 00:25:04,459 --> 00:25:05,939 That dream that I had that day 581 00:25:06,069 --> 00:25:09,333 has at many points turned into a nightmare. 582 00:25:10,987 --> 00:25:13,468 WOMAN: Why do you burn down your own neighborhood? 583 00:25:14,513 --> 00:25:15,862 It's not ours! 584 00:25:15,992 --> 00:25:18,386 We don't own anything! 585 00:25:18,517 --> 00:25:22,303 SHERRIE DEANS: I-I can't express what a complex time this was. 586 00:25:22,433 --> 00:25:24,697 And-and you're starting to see all of the elements 587 00:25:24,827 --> 00:25:27,047 of systemic racism just laid bare. 588 00:25:27,177 --> 00:25:29,005 MAN: Tell me why I'm under arrest, sir. 589 00:25:29,136 --> 00:25:30,964 Why-why am I under arrest, sir? 590 00:25:31,094 --> 00:25:33,662 REPORTER: Uh, our correspondent, Omar Jimenez, 591 00:25:33,793 --> 00:25:36,796 was also led away in handcuffs, as was his producer. 592 00:25:36,926 --> 00:25:38,319 MAN: I've never seen anything like this. 593 00:25:38,449 --> 00:25:40,147 And then we walk into the room and say, 594 00:25:40,277 --> 00:25:42,366 "Hey, you guys want to go back and play basketball?" 595 00:25:48,764 --> 00:25:51,985 I was definitely skeptical about a return to action. 596 00:25:52,115 --> 00:25:53,987 Looking at where we were at, as a nation 597 00:25:54,117 --> 00:25:55,989 and as a country as a whole, I just felt like it-- 598 00:25:56,119 --> 00:25:58,078 it might not be the right thing to do at that time. 599 00:25:58,208 --> 00:26:02,125 I definitely did think that us playing 600 00:26:02,256 --> 00:26:05,651 could also play into the part of us being a distraction. 601 00:26:05,781 --> 00:26:07,522 It could've been used 602 00:26:07,653 --> 00:26:10,046 as an attention-grabber the other way. 603 00:26:11,613 --> 00:26:13,659 ROBERTS: I completely sympathize with this notion 604 00:26:13,789 --> 00:26:15,269 that, you know... I'm-I'm not in the mood 605 00:26:15,399 --> 00:26:17,097 for basketball right now. 606 00:26:17,227 --> 00:26:19,882 I'm in the mood to do something about stopping 607 00:26:20,013 --> 00:26:22,189 these-these crazy police officers 608 00:26:22,319 --> 00:26:23,886 from shooting people that look like me. 609 00:26:24,017 --> 00:26:27,890 No question but that that was a legitimate concern. 610 00:26:28,021 --> 00:26:30,501 I think it's two different perspectives on this as players: 611 00:26:30,632 --> 00:26:32,547 You choose to not come back and play 612 00:26:32,678 --> 00:26:34,375 because you think this is silencing us 613 00:26:34,505 --> 00:26:36,159 by playing basketball and coming down here 614 00:26:36,290 --> 00:26:38,684 and not protesting and not demanding justice 615 00:26:38,814 --> 00:26:40,337 before basketball. 616 00:26:40,468 --> 00:26:41,948 You don't want to put your profession before, 617 00:26:42,078 --> 00:26:43,558 uh, what's going on in the real world. 618 00:26:43,689 --> 00:26:45,342 But then there's a-- there's another group of us, 619 00:26:45,473 --> 00:26:48,041 which is the group I fall into, um, that thinks 620 00:26:48,171 --> 00:26:49,782 coming down here with all the light, 621 00:26:49,912 --> 00:26:51,566 with all the visibility on what we're doing down here 622 00:26:51,697 --> 00:26:53,437 and all the eyes, we can use our platform 623 00:26:53,568 --> 00:26:55,222 to actually have a greater purpose. 624 00:26:55,352 --> 00:26:58,834 Sports plays such a major role in our society. 625 00:26:58,965 --> 00:27:01,097 I think sometimes it's overlooked. 626 00:27:01,228 --> 00:27:02,490 COLIN KAEPERNICK: ...continue to stand with the people 627 00:27:02,621 --> 00:27:03,622 that are being oppressed. 628 00:27:03,752 --> 00:27:05,406 When there's significant change 629 00:27:05,536 --> 00:27:07,756 and I feel like that flag represents 630 00:27:07,887 --> 00:27:10,498 what it's supposed to represent, I'll stand. 631 00:27:10,629 --> 00:27:12,718 I feel like understanding that 632 00:27:12,848 --> 00:27:14,633 and using that to the right capacity 633 00:27:14,763 --> 00:27:18,245 is what sports is supposed to be about. 634 00:27:18,375 --> 00:27:20,073 FRED HAMPTON: You have to understand 635 00:27:20,203 --> 00:27:21,944 that people have to pay the price for peace. 636 00:27:36,350 --> 00:27:39,353 [ laughing ] 637 00:27:39,483 --> 00:27:41,007 Wait a minute, I'm right here, right? 638 00:27:41,137 --> 00:27:43,226 MAN: Yes, sir, yes. 639 00:27:43,357 --> 00:27:45,446 Yeah, if you don't mind, once you sit down with him... 640 00:27:46,839 --> 00:27:49,189 I-I've said on occasions, I feel fortunate 641 00:27:49,319 --> 00:27:51,757 to have fallen from the tree of two freedom fighters 642 00:27:51,887 --> 00:27:54,237 that are Chairman Fred Hampton, also Akua Njeri, 643 00:27:54,368 --> 00:27:56,196 formerly known as Deborah Johnson. 644 00:27:56,326 --> 00:27:57,937 Um, I'm honored and I'm humbled 645 00:27:58,067 --> 00:28:01,767 to be a Panther cub, by birth and by battle. 646 00:28:01,897 --> 00:28:03,943 Anyone who believes that this system, 647 00:28:04,073 --> 00:28:06,554 as police or-- or law-- any form of law enforcement, 648 00:28:06,685 --> 00:28:08,599 whatever, that they want to stop crime, 649 00:28:08,730 --> 00:28:10,558 you believe Don King want to stop boxing. 650 00:28:10,689 --> 00:28:12,691 'Cause, reality, it's an economy. 651 00:28:12,821 --> 00:28:15,606 It's a livelihood based on us fighting amongst each other. 652 00:28:22,570 --> 00:28:24,006 HAMPTON JR.: The Black Panther Party see the differences 653 00:28:24,137 --> 00:28:25,573 between our people are reconcilable. 654 00:28:25,704 --> 00:28:27,096 However, differences between the people 655 00:28:27,227 --> 00:28:28,924 and the state are irreconcilable. 656 00:28:29,055 --> 00:28:30,883 So there's a difference between a war and a revolution. 657 00:28:31,013 --> 00:28:32,841 A war is two occupying armies. 658 00:28:32,972 --> 00:28:35,017 They suit up, and they boot up, and they get down to get down. 659 00:28:35,148 --> 00:28:36,976 A revolution, on the other hand, you win the mass-- 660 00:28:37,106 --> 00:28:38,760 the participation of the masses of the people. 661 00:28:41,545 --> 00:28:43,678 I think we should utilize NBA players, 662 00:28:43,809 --> 00:28:45,375 athletes in general, artists, 663 00:28:45,506 --> 00:28:47,290 get these messages going on in the community. 664 00:28:47,421 --> 00:28:49,423 I don't think we can afford the luxury to look 665 00:28:49,553 --> 00:28:51,599 for perfect allies. 666 00:28:51,730 --> 00:28:54,515 MAN: We're trying to figure out... 667 00:28:54,645 --> 00:28:59,302 I remember in 1996 or 1997, 668 00:28:59,433 --> 00:29:02,479 um, we defended Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf 669 00:29:02,610 --> 00:29:07,093 when he refused to stand for the national anthem. 670 00:29:07,223 --> 00:29:08,616 COMMENTATOR: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, 671 00:29:08,747 --> 00:29:10,574 a devout Muslim, 672 00:29:10,705 --> 00:29:12,663 has been suspended by the NBA... 673 00:29:12,794 --> 00:29:14,665 You can't stand for God and be for oppression. 674 00:29:14,796 --> 00:29:17,016 MAN: America is the reason why, uh, 675 00:29:17,146 --> 00:29:18,452 he's making the big bucks, 676 00:29:18,582 --> 00:29:20,106 and, I mean, he should at least respect that. 677 00:29:20,236 --> 00:29:21,585 You know, it really doesn't affect anybody else, 678 00:29:21,716 --> 00:29:23,283 so he should be able to do what he wants to. 679 00:29:23,413 --> 00:29:25,633 MAN: I don't like it. I'm a soldier. 680 00:29:25,764 --> 00:29:27,504 But, hey, that's his personal opinion, 681 00:29:27,635 --> 00:29:29,332 and that's the opinion that I fight to defend. 682 00:29:29,463 --> 00:29:33,684 People forget that this was long before Colin Kaepernick. 683 00:29:33,815 --> 00:29:36,862 And the union has always had a strong commitment 684 00:29:36,992 --> 00:29:41,692 to defending players who wish to convey a message. 685 00:29:41,823 --> 00:29:43,999 Through the years, that commitment has evolved 686 00:29:44,130 --> 00:29:47,481 to the point where it is now off the charts. 687 00:29:47,611 --> 00:29:49,831 We love to play. Like, we want to play this game, 688 00:29:49,962 --> 00:29:52,181 but at the same time, you have COVID, 689 00:29:52,312 --> 00:29:54,357 and you have the social injustice. Should we? 690 00:29:54,488 --> 00:29:55,924 You know, basketball lasts only but so long. 691 00:29:56,055 --> 00:29:57,708 And these things that we're dealing with 692 00:29:57,839 --> 00:29:59,536 or our families or our communities are dealing with 693 00:29:59,667 --> 00:30:01,190 are something we're gonna have to deal with forever. 694 00:30:01,321 --> 00:30:02,670 At a certain point, you realize there's 695 00:30:02,801 --> 00:30:04,150 more to life than basketball. 696 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,456 ROBERTS: I said, guys, understand that 697 00:30:06,587 --> 00:30:08,589 whether you restart or not, 698 00:30:08,719 --> 00:30:12,854 there's gonna be another Black man killed by the police. 699 00:30:12,985 --> 00:30:14,900 That you can't prevent it by not playing, 700 00:30:15,030 --> 00:30:17,990 and understand you can't prevent it by playing. 701 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,514 This is going to happen again. 702 00:30:20,644 --> 00:30:22,995 Then they do what... what-what adults do. 703 00:30:23,125 --> 00:30:25,040 They say, okay. 704 00:30:25,171 --> 00:30:28,261 Okay, I think this makes sense. Let's vote. 705 00:30:28,391 --> 00:30:30,350 And we restarted the season. 706 00:30:34,745 --> 00:30:36,530 -McGEE: Gigi, where Daddy going? -Basketball game. 707 00:30:36,660 --> 00:30:38,619 Daddy going to a basketball game? 708 00:30:38,749 --> 00:30:40,795 For how long? 709 00:30:40,926 --> 00:30:43,450 A long time, huh? 710 00:30:43,580 --> 00:30:45,974 I'm gonna miss you. 711 00:30:46,105 --> 00:30:50,979 It was fun, and now you're taking it away from us. 712 00:30:51,110 --> 00:30:53,939 I'm excited to go to Orlando for the bubble, 713 00:30:54,069 --> 00:30:57,420 but I'm not excited to go to Orlando for the bubble. 714 00:30:57,551 --> 00:31:00,989 I was going to the airport, literally to go away to be 715 00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:02,904 on a campus for three months 716 00:31:03,035 --> 00:31:04,993 and, at the time, they didn't tell us if our family was 717 00:31:05,124 --> 00:31:06,734 ever gonna ever be able to come. 718 00:31:07,996 --> 00:31:09,650 But there's one goal and one goal only. 719 00:31:09,780 --> 00:31:11,478 What goal is that, Gigi? 720 00:31:11,608 --> 00:31:14,220 To win a championship, whoo! 721 00:31:14,350 --> 00:31:16,744 Whoo! 722 00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:18,615 It was a surreal feeling, 723 00:31:18,746 --> 00:31:20,313 but I've been making sacrifices my whole life. 724 00:31:20,443 --> 00:31:22,054 I-I need to do this for my family, 725 00:31:22,184 --> 00:31:24,404 and I need to do this for the organization. 726 00:31:32,368 --> 00:31:34,718 Let's go and win a championship, baby. 727 00:31:37,025 --> 00:31:39,419 Day one on my trip to the bubble. 728 00:31:39,549 --> 00:31:41,595 The bubble, the bubble, the bubble. 729 00:31:41,725 --> 00:31:43,423 CJ McCOLLUM: You know, me personally, 730 00:31:43,553 --> 00:31:45,077 I voted not to go to the bubble. 731 00:31:45,207 --> 00:31:46,687 I voted no to a lot of stuff. 732 00:31:46,817 --> 00:31:48,036 But if you look at the rest of the league, 733 00:31:48,167 --> 00:31:49,820 you look at the rest of staff, 734 00:31:49,951 --> 00:31:51,910 the NBA in general, how many people would have 735 00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:54,782 been affected by the billions of dollars lost in income, 736 00:31:54,913 --> 00:31:57,654 I think the collective of guys, they care enough 737 00:31:57,785 --> 00:31:59,700 to do what's best. 738 00:31:59,874 --> 00:32:01,920 ♪ 739 00:32:15,977 --> 00:32:17,892 ZURETTI: How can we actually play in the bubble? 740 00:32:18,023 --> 00:32:20,373 The bubble doesn't exist. 741 00:32:20,503 --> 00:32:22,288 The bubble has holes. 742 00:32:22,418 --> 00:32:24,638 The bubble bursts just with one finger. 743 00:32:24,768 --> 00:32:27,902 The initial screening process was in all the local markets. 744 00:32:28,033 --> 00:32:30,078 That was to hopefully identify anybody 745 00:32:30,209 --> 00:32:32,472 before they even got on the plane to come to Orlando. 746 00:32:32,602 --> 00:32:34,126 During that two-week time, 747 00:32:34,256 --> 00:32:36,389 we did identify, I would say, over 30 players, 748 00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:38,957 that were positive, in their markets. 749 00:32:39,087 --> 00:32:41,437 Oh, God. For those that don't know, 750 00:32:41,568 --> 00:32:43,700 part of my job as being a rookie 751 00:32:43,831 --> 00:32:46,225 is getting Chick-Fil-A 752 00:32:46,355 --> 00:32:47,922 for all the players on the plane. 753 00:32:48,053 --> 00:32:52,231 And even in a state of pandemic... 754 00:32:54,276 --> 00:32:56,322 ...that job still sticks. 755 00:32:56,452 --> 00:32:58,106 -Thank you. -ROGOWSKI: So all the teams 756 00:32:58,237 --> 00:32:59,934 flew here on a private plane. 757 00:33:00,065 --> 00:33:02,067 All the staff on the private plane was also tested 758 00:33:02,197 --> 00:33:05,244 so that you knew you had a clean plane coming in. 759 00:33:05,374 --> 00:33:07,507 We can't dap each other up? 760 00:33:07,637 --> 00:33:10,771 I mean, everybody passed the test, right? 761 00:33:10,901 --> 00:33:12,512 Can we at least dap each other up? 762 00:33:12,642 --> 00:33:14,601 All right, I'll give you a dap. 763 00:33:14,731 --> 00:33:16,733 But again, all it takes is one person, 764 00:33:16,864 --> 00:33:19,475 and, you know, who knows? 765 00:33:19,606 --> 00:33:22,261 MAN: The NBA believes once we get down to Orlando, 766 00:33:22,391 --> 00:33:24,002 in that bubble, that things will be safe 767 00:33:24,132 --> 00:33:25,916 and that this will work. 768 00:33:26,047 --> 00:33:28,745 I am more optimistic than I was before 769 00:33:28,876 --> 00:33:30,965 that the NBA will not only restart its season 770 00:33:31,096 --> 00:33:32,532 but complete its season. 771 00:33:32,662 --> 00:33:36,318 Yeah, welcome back, y'all, welcome back. 772 00:33:36,492 --> 00:33:38,407 ♪ Welcome back, welcome back ♪ 773 00:33:38,581 --> 00:33:40,322 ♪ Welcome back ♪ 774 00:33:40,453 --> 00:33:42,237 [ laughing ] 775 00:33:42,411 --> 00:33:43,934 ♪ Welcome back ♪ 776 00:33:44,109 --> 00:33:45,849 ♪ Yeah, man, how you doing? You good? ♪ 777 00:33:46,024 --> 00:33:48,113 ♪ I know you like that... ♪ 778 00:33:48,243 --> 00:33:49,766 I know you're gonna like it! 779 00:33:49,940 --> 00:33:51,116 ♪ Welcome back, man ♪ 780 00:33:51,290 --> 00:33:53,074 ♪ Welcome, welcome, welcome ♪ 781 00:33:55,207 --> 00:33:57,078 ♪ Welcome back ♪ 782 00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:01,821 ♪ Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome back... ♪ 783 00:34:01,952 --> 00:34:03,650 Every other row... 784 00:34:03,779 --> 00:34:06,479 it was really spaced out on the bus. 785 00:34:06,609 --> 00:34:09,263 "These seats are closed. Please do not use." 786 00:34:09,438 --> 00:34:12,833 ♪ Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome back ♪♪♪ 787 00:34:12,962 --> 00:34:14,529 WORKER: Say "ah" for me. 788 00:34:17,359 --> 00:34:19,274 I know, nobody likes that one. 789 00:34:19,404 --> 00:34:20,928 That's it, you are all done, my friend. 790 00:34:21,058 --> 00:34:22,408 -You have a great night now. -Thank you. 791 00:34:22,538 --> 00:34:24,192 I don't shake hands. I do this, but thank you. 792 00:34:24,323 --> 00:34:25,672 No, I want to shake your hand. 793 00:34:25,801 --> 00:34:27,455 -What about a hug? -No, I'm good. 794 00:34:27,587 --> 00:34:29,458 [ laughter ] 795 00:34:29,589 --> 00:34:31,243 MAN: First and foremost, I want to really just 796 00:34:31,373 --> 00:34:33,288 thank you for the sacrifice that you're all making. 797 00:34:33,419 --> 00:34:35,203 So we are working with some of the leading 798 00:34:35,334 --> 00:34:37,553 health experts in the world to make this 799 00:34:37,683 --> 00:34:40,730 the most safest environment that we possibly can. 800 00:34:42,341 --> 00:34:44,212 -[ laughing ] -Good job, Nellie. 801 00:34:45,518 --> 00:34:46,910 [ hawks ] 802 00:34:47,041 --> 00:34:50,175 Oh, ugh. 803 00:34:50,305 --> 00:34:52,481 Shit, all right, boogies. 804 00:34:52,612 --> 00:34:54,527 I feel like this setup is just... 805 00:34:54,657 --> 00:34:56,572 just so amazing, you know? 806 00:34:56,703 --> 00:35:00,315 I did not think they could just put up this kind of bubble. 807 00:35:00,446 --> 00:35:03,362 ROGOWSKI: Once you got in, just to add another layer, 808 00:35:03,492 --> 00:35:06,495 we had the players do another 48 hours of quarantine 809 00:35:06,626 --> 00:35:08,758 -in which they were tested. -Got your test? 810 00:35:08,889 --> 00:35:10,325 -Yes, ma'am. -All right. 811 00:35:10,456 --> 00:35:11,979 -Can I place this on your arm? -Yep. 812 00:35:12,110 --> 00:35:13,589 ENES FREEDOM: I feel like this bubble is 813 00:35:13,720 --> 00:35:15,461 the safest place on Earth right now. 814 00:35:15,591 --> 00:35:17,593 They knew they had to isolate before they even got here. 815 00:35:17,724 --> 00:35:19,421 They had to go quarantine before they even got here. 816 00:35:19,552 --> 00:35:21,423 And then once they got here, they were gonna be asked 817 00:35:21,554 --> 00:35:23,773 to do additional quarantine. But now we have a clean bubble, 818 00:35:23,904 --> 00:35:25,471 so it was, I-I-I think, done 819 00:35:25,601 --> 00:35:27,037 as well as we could from the beginning. 820 00:35:28,038 --> 00:35:29,431 -Ah, man. -[ beeping ] 821 00:35:29,562 --> 00:35:31,216 Day one. 822 00:35:31,346 --> 00:35:34,132 Literally going into 48-hour quarantine right now. 823 00:35:35,959 --> 00:35:37,744 -Hi. Welcome. -Hello. 824 00:35:37,874 --> 00:35:39,920 -Thank you for being here. -Thank you. 825 00:35:40,050 --> 00:35:42,836 -Have a good day. -Yeah, thank you. You too. 826 00:35:49,538 --> 00:35:53,499 Home sweet home. 827 00:36:03,073 --> 00:36:04,640 THABO SEFOLOSHA: I made a strong stance, you know, 828 00:36:04,771 --> 00:36:06,599 by not going into the bubble. 829 00:36:07,991 --> 00:36:10,646 Obviously, you know, the-the social issue was 830 00:36:10,777 --> 00:36:12,518 a big part of it. 831 00:36:14,346 --> 00:36:16,174 But I personally have a problem when 832 00:36:16,304 --> 00:36:18,872 the owner of my team is donating for the reelection 833 00:36:19,002 --> 00:36:21,091 of a president that's clearly divisive 834 00:36:21,222 --> 00:36:23,529 and anti what I represent. 835 00:36:23,659 --> 00:36:26,096 So, for that, you know, I think it's... 836 00:36:26,227 --> 00:36:28,142 it's bigger than basketball, and-- 837 00:36:28,273 --> 00:36:31,058 and I was excited at first, you know, to go back, and... 838 00:36:31,189 --> 00:36:33,191 being with them, and, uh, you know, I was... 839 00:36:33,321 --> 00:36:35,105 I was kinda looking forward to the experience. 840 00:36:39,022 --> 00:36:40,763 It was hard, you know, obviously, 841 00:36:40,894 --> 00:36:43,201 leaving my teammates behind and-and deciding not to... 842 00:36:43,331 --> 00:36:44,941 not to make it, but it's-it's one 843 00:36:45,072 --> 00:36:47,596 that I made for my family and-and for myself. 844 00:36:51,992 --> 00:36:54,473 ♪ 845 00:36:54,603 --> 00:36:57,650 MAN: They're nearing. The testers. 846 00:36:57,780 --> 00:37:00,043 -Open the-- ah. -Ah. 847 00:37:00,174 --> 00:37:02,220 I know. 848 00:37:02,350 --> 00:37:03,960 Up. 849 00:37:05,527 --> 00:37:06,963 -You're all set. -Thank you. 850 00:37:08,530 --> 00:37:10,793 -Breakfast is here. -McGEE: The first 48 hours, 851 00:37:10,924 --> 00:37:12,882 we couldn't leave our rooms, 852 00:37:13,013 --> 00:37:15,755 so it was premade food that they would leave at our door, 853 00:37:15,885 --> 00:37:17,713 knock on our door and run away. 854 00:37:17,844 --> 00:37:19,411 So we'd open the door, 855 00:37:19,541 --> 00:37:21,239 and they'd be gone already, and we'd grab our food. 856 00:37:21,369 --> 00:37:22,936 -Sack lunches are here, baby. -You know what I'm saying? 857 00:37:23,066 --> 00:37:24,720 There ya go, look, look, there ya go. 858 00:37:25,765 --> 00:37:27,506 Oh, wow. Nope. 859 00:37:27,636 --> 00:37:30,422 Yep, yep, yep, nope. 860 00:37:30,552 --> 00:37:33,251 Yep, yep, oh yeah. 861 00:37:35,383 --> 00:37:37,559 We're professional athletes and all that, right? 862 00:37:37,690 --> 00:37:39,518 But they be over here crying, talking about somebody 863 00:37:39,648 --> 00:37:41,520 can't stay healthy, and their body breaking down, 864 00:37:41,650 --> 00:37:43,739 and all this other... 865 00:37:43,870 --> 00:37:45,959 [ sighing ] Just sayin', bro. 866 00:37:46,089 --> 00:37:47,613 We is in Orlando. 867 00:37:47,743 --> 00:37:49,484 Mm, mm. 868 00:37:49,615 --> 00:37:52,095 -Mm-mm. -ROBERTS: It was pretty clear 869 00:37:52,226 --> 00:37:54,228 that if we were going to ask the players 870 00:37:54,359 --> 00:37:57,144 to be essentially removed from the world, 871 00:37:57,275 --> 00:37:59,233 we could give them little to complain about. 872 00:37:59,364 --> 00:38:00,887 But we couldn't cut corners. 873 00:38:01,017 --> 00:38:02,932 I mean, you-you could, 874 00:38:03,063 --> 00:38:05,021 but it wasn't gonna make for a very happy campus. 875 00:38:05,152 --> 00:38:07,241 Of course, they did find things to complain about 876 00:38:07,372 --> 00:38:08,938 in the first few weeks, namely food. 877 00:38:10,766 --> 00:38:13,291 That look like a goddamn flying saucer. 878 00:38:13,421 --> 00:38:15,075 And then we upped the ante. 879 00:38:16,555 --> 00:38:18,992 MAN: Mm, real food, they weren't playing. 880 00:38:20,428 --> 00:38:22,865 They not playing at all. 881 00:38:22,996 --> 00:38:27,217 Okay, this is my first step out of quarantine. 882 00:38:27,348 --> 00:38:29,829 Ah, freedom. 883 00:38:29,959 --> 00:38:31,961 [ laughing ] 884 00:38:32,092 --> 00:38:33,833 -Welcome out. -It's day one. 885 00:38:33,963 --> 00:38:35,313 Are you ready for school? 886 00:38:35,443 --> 00:38:37,532 -We're going to school! -Oh! 887 00:38:37,663 --> 00:38:39,012 Oh, that's bright. 888 00:38:39,142 --> 00:38:40,796 Feels good to feel the sun again. 889 00:38:40,927 --> 00:38:43,059 What type of bird is that, bro? 890 00:38:44,322 --> 00:38:46,062 What?! 891 00:38:47,977 --> 00:38:49,805 Ah, nah... 892 00:38:49,936 --> 00:38:51,677 Oh, man. 893 00:38:51,807 --> 00:38:54,201 Hit your MagicBand whenever you come in or out. 894 00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:55,637 -[ chiming ] -Perfect. Green means go. 895 00:38:55,768 --> 00:38:57,335 -Is that good? -Yes, sir. 896 00:39:00,338 --> 00:39:01,774 What's up? 897 00:39:01,904 --> 00:39:04,167 A.C.! 898 00:39:04,298 --> 00:39:07,780 They put courts in the ballroom. 899 00:39:07,910 --> 00:39:10,652 A.C., man, no home court advantage on this court. 900 00:39:10,783 --> 00:39:12,915 Yo, this is crazy. 901 00:39:14,874 --> 00:39:16,571 Hey, stay-- whoa, that's-- 902 00:39:16,702 --> 00:39:18,704 that's five and a half feet-- oh, shit. 903 00:39:18,834 --> 00:39:20,836 It's a good day one, y'all. 904 00:39:22,490 --> 00:39:24,144 Okay, it's real nice in here. 905 00:39:24,274 --> 00:39:25,537 We got stands even though we can't have no fans. 906 00:39:25,667 --> 00:39:27,103 That don't make sense, but hey. 907 00:39:28,409 --> 00:39:30,498 I've-I've seen worse. 908 00:39:30,629 --> 00:39:32,500 Boy always got his muscles out. 909 00:39:32,631 --> 00:39:34,633 So, we gotta sit this far apart? 910 00:39:34,763 --> 00:39:38,332 -Six feet, yeah. -This is some bullshit. 911 00:39:38,463 --> 00:39:40,552 I know the players look at it as a unique experience 912 00:39:40,682 --> 00:39:43,337 and have, you know, more of that team dynamic 913 00:39:43,468 --> 00:39:45,861 without any distractions that go on with everyday life. 914 00:39:45,992 --> 00:39:47,559 -One, two, three. -ALL: Defense! 915 00:39:47,689 --> 00:39:50,605 Um, it's allowed teams to, uh, bond together, 916 00:39:50,736 --> 00:39:52,999 and that's been a pleasant surprise. 917 00:39:56,655 --> 00:39:58,483 REPORTER: How's the adjustment been, 918 00:39:58,613 --> 00:40:00,136 just overall your thoughts on life 919 00:40:00,267 --> 00:40:02,617 inside the bubble right now? 920 00:40:02,748 --> 00:40:04,576 DWIGHT POWELL: This is one of the closest groups socially 921 00:40:04,706 --> 00:40:07,143 that I've been a part of, as far as an NBA team. 922 00:40:07,274 --> 00:40:09,537 This is going to be our family the next three months. 923 00:40:09,668 --> 00:40:11,365 [ indistinct chatter ] 924 00:40:11,496 --> 00:40:13,454 The amenities turned out to be a big hit. 925 00:40:14,542 --> 00:40:16,326 -Whoa! -Every now and then, 926 00:40:16,457 --> 00:40:17,719 people airball, all right? Shut up. 927 00:40:17,850 --> 00:40:19,155 There was a lot of golf. 928 00:40:20,330 --> 00:40:21,506 Comin' in hot. 929 00:40:21,636 --> 00:40:23,812 -Whoa! -[ laughter ] 930 00:40:23,943 --> 00:40:25,727 Does anyone know what they're doing? 931 00:40:25,858 --> 00:40:27,425 ROBERTS: A lot of fishing. 932 00:40:27,555 --> 00:40:29,427 -To Miami! -[ laughing ] 933 00:40:29,557 --> 00:40:31,211 [ engine stalling ] 934 00:40:31,341 --> 00:40:33,169 This boat is stranded. 935 00:40:33,300 --> 00:40:35,215 2020 in a nutshell. 936 00:40:35,345 --> 00:40:37,130 Got a life vest. 937 00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:39,262 I'm too close to home not to get there. 938 00:40:39,393 --> 00:40:41,047 How many weeks has it been, 12? 939 00:40:41,177 --> 00:40:42,744 Nah, man, it's been two. It's like, "Oh, all right, 940 00:40:42,875 --> 00:40:44,529 let's go play some Ping-Pong." 941 00:40:44,659 --> 00:40:45,965 INTERVIEWER: Is it true that you're the best 942 00:40:46,095 --> 00:40:47,575 Ping-Pong player in the bubble? 943 00:40:49,882 --> 00:40:53,276 I haven't lost yet, so yes, I think I'm the best one. 944 00:40:54,669 --> 00:40:56,149 We go to the pool a lot. 945 00:40:56,279 --> 00:40:57,716 Tacko's swim class. 946 00:40:57,846 --> 00:41:00,022 Those two are trying to teach me how to swim. 947 00:41:00,153 --> 00:41:01,763 Almost there, bro. 948 00:41:01,894 --> 00:41:03,156 There you go. 949 00:41:03,286 --> 00:41:04,853 -We're going! -Almost. 950 00:41:04,984 --> 00:41:06,028 [ cheering ] 951 00:41:06,159 --> 00:41:07,508 What's good? 952 00:41:07,639 --> 00:41:11,599 -You know what today is? -Taco Tuesday! 953 00:41:11,730 --> 00:41:13,645 [ screeching ] 954 00:41:13,775 --> 00:41:15,734 On your marks, get set, go! 955 00:41:15,864 --> 00:41:18,301 -Whoo! -We losing! Too much bacon! 956 00:41:18,432 --> 00:41:21,348 [ overlapping shouts ] 957 00:41:21,479 --> 00:41:24,046 It's not that hard. It's not that difficult. 958 00:41:24,177 --> 00:41:26,875 You know what I mean, it's... we're living in a bloody resort. 959 00:41:27,006 --> 00:41:29,312 Whoo! 960 00:41:29,443 --> 00:41:32,620 It still ain't home, but it made the landing a lot softer. 961 00:41:32,751 --> 00:41:34,230 [ screaming ] 962 00:41:38,278 --> 00:41:40,367 -Okay! -Okay. 963 00:41:40,498 --> 00:41:43,109 [ clapping ] 964 00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:44,893 REPORTER: Tased and arrested, 965 00:41:45,024 --> 00:41:47,505 a Milwaukee Bucks rookie ended up in jail overnight 966 00:41:47,635 --> 00:41:49,898 after an incident in a Walgreens parking lot. 967 00:41:52,161 --> 00:41:53,772 REPORTER: Surveillance video shows 968 00:41:53,902 --> 00:41:55,861 at least six police vehicles surrounding a car. 969 00:41:55,991 --> 00:41:57,776 2nd REPORTER: Milwaukee police say an officer 970 00:41:57,906 --> 00:42:00,039 was doing a business check here when they noticed 971 00:42:00,169 --> 00:42:03,216 Brown's vehicle parked across two handicapped parking spaces, 972 00:42:03,346 --> 00:42:05,261 which you can't see on the surveillance footage. 973 00:42:05,392 --> 00:42:07,263 REPORTER: The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office 974 00:42:07,394 --> 00:42:10,615 sent us this mugshot of Brown dated today, January 26th. 975 00:42:10,745 --> 00:42:12,268 2nd REPORTER: A source says Brown got 976 00:42:12,399 --> 00:42:13,966 into an altercation with officers, 977 00:42:14,096 --> 00:42:16,142 which led to him being taken to the ground 978 00:42:16,272 --> 00:42:17,578 and taken to the Milwaukee County Jail 979 00:42:17,709 --> 00:42:19,493 for resisting an officer. 980 00:42:19,624 --> 00:42:21,800 Now, the Bucks have not told me whether or not he will face 981 00:42:21,930 --> 00:42:24,280 any disciplinary action moving forward, 982 00:42:24,411 --> 00:42:26,631 including whether or not he will suit up tonight. 983 00:42:26,761 --> 00:42:28,720 Delta Five, Scene One, AV Marker. 984 00:42:31,113 --> 00:42:32,767 It was just supposed to be a simple ticket home, 985 00:42:32,898 --> 00:42:34,639 but I know this is a reality. 986 00:42:34,769 --> 00:42:37,685 Like, what can I do so this, you know, doesn't happen? 987 00:42:37,816 --> 00:42:39,644 REPORTER: According to the police report, 988 00:42:39,774 --> 00:42:42,734 the officer asks Brown repeatedly to step back, 989 00:42:42,864 --> 00:42:46,302 but Brown refuses, becoming, quote, "very aggressive." 990 00:42:46,433 --> 00:42:49,044 The situation just escalated from a parking ticket 991 00:42:49,175 --> 00:42:51,351 to, you know, what it was. 992 00:42:51,481 --> 00:42:52,961 REPORTER: "A Taser had to be employed 993 00:42:53,092 --> 00:42:55,660 to get Brown in control with handcuffs." 994 00:42:55,790 --> 00:42:57,226 They Tased me, arrested me, 995 00:42:57,357 --> 00:42:58,619 and they booked me for the night. 996 00:42:58,750 --> 00:43:00,882 You know, that-- that was that. 997 00:43:02,754 --> 00:43:04,494 REPORTER: Eighteen hours later, he would play in this game 998 00:43:04,625 --> 00:43:06,409 against the Brooklyn Nets. 999 00:43:06,540 --> 00:43:08,194 He could be seen during warm-ups 1000 00:43:08,324 --> 00:43:10,588 with visible bruises and marks on his face. 1001 00:43:10,718 --> 00:43:13,329 I had a solid game, but I could feel, you know, 1002 00:43:13,460 --> 00:43:15,462 a couple guys looking at me 'cause they could see 1003 00:43:15,593 --> 00:43:16,898 the-the scars and everything, 1004 00:43:17,029 --> 00:43:18,770 my face swollen, and all of that. 1005 00:43:18,900 --> 00:43:21,120 I would say a lot of people was on the fence. 1006 00:43:21,250 --> 00:43:22,643 They thought, you know, I helped escalate 1007 00:43:22,774 --> 00:43:24,950 the situation, this, that, and the third. 1008 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:26,560 POLICE CHIEF: The men and women of the Milwaukee Police Department 1009 00:43:26,691 --> 00:43:28,431 are dedicated to protecting and serving 1010 00:43:28,562 --> 00:43:30,259 the citizens of Milwaukee. 1011 00:43:30,390 --> 00:43:32,914 Understand that we have hundreds of interactions 1012 00:43:33,045 --> 00:43:34,655 with citizens each day, 1013 00:43:34,786 --> 00:43:36,962 and those contacts end positively. 1014 00:43:37,092 --> 00:43:40,792 You know, my pops being a cop, like, growing up, I mean... 1015 00:43:40,922 --> 00:43:42,445 him being a cop, it definitely-- 1016 00:43:42,576 --> 00:43:44,056 I had respect for him and some of the guys 1017 00:43:44,186 --> 00:43:46,058 that he was cool with because I seen 1018 00:43:46,188 --> 00:43:48,408 what they did once they put down those uniforms. 1019 00:43:48,538 --> 00:43:49,757 They helped the community. 1020 00:43:49,888 --> 00:43:50,758 They helped the kids in the community. 1021 00:43:50,889 --> 00:43:52,412 Being a Black kid growing up 1022 00:43:52,542 --> 00:43:54,196 in a Black home, you're taught a lot of things 1023 00:43:54,327 --> 00:43:55,807 on how to maneuver life, you know, 1024 00:43:55,937 --> 00:43:57,852 how to behave in public, how to behave 1025 00:43:57,983 --> 00:43:59,593 when you're pulled over, and I think you-- 1026 00:43:59,724 --> 00:44:02,291 you consciously think about that as you go through life. 1027 00:44:03,771 --> 00:44:05,686 DOC RIVERS: My dad was a police officer 1028 00:44:05,817 --> 00:44:07,470 in the area called Maywood. 1029 00:44:07,601 --> 00:44:09,342 Maywood was predominantly Black. 1030 00:44:09,472 --> 00:44:12,998 There were a bunch of white suburbs all around us. 1031 00:44:13,128 --> 00:44:15,130 Especially in the time that I grew up in Chicago, 1032 00:44:15,261 --> 00:44:16,915 it was a very segregated city. 1033 00:44:17,045 --> 00:44:20,962 And it was an interesting thing, I felt safe in Maywood. 1034 00:44:21,093 --> 00:44:23,922 I felt I could go anywhere in Maywood. 1035 00:44:24,052 --> 00:44:26,141 But my dad always told me, 1036 00:44:26,272 --> 00:44:29,231 if you leave Maywood, you've gotta be very careful. 1037 00:44:29,362 --> 00:44:31,320 BOY: Don't make yourself look like 1038 00:44:31,451 --> 00:44:33,322 you're about to do anything or don't cause a scene 1039 00:44:33,453 --> 00:44:34,976 because people can look at you 1040 00:44:35,107 --> 00:44:36,935 and just think you're about to go do something 1041 00:44:37,065 --> 00:44:39,067 just because you're Black. 1042 00:44:39,198 --> 00:44:41,417 JONES: Why I was talking to 14-year-old Black and Brown students 1043 00:44:41,548 --> 00:44:43,898 who had already experienced police brutality. 1044 00:44:44,029 --> 00:44:46,248 These kids ain't graduated high school. 1045 00:44:46,379 --> 00:44:49,164 And they already told me how the safety officers 1046 00:44:49,295 --> 00:44:50,818 at their school treat them 1047 00:44:50,949 --> 00:44:54,909 and the officers in their community treat them. 1048 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,694 They're children. 1049 00:44:56,824 --> 00:44:58,173 WOMAN: How do you feel? 1050 00:44:58,304 --> 00:45:00,262 I kind of-- I panic sometimes. 1051 00:45:00,393 --> 00:45:02,395 Now I'm just trying to pace it 1052 00:45:02,525 --> 00:45:04,092 and get the panic off me. 1053 00:45:04,223 --> 00:45:05,615 -Yeah? -Yeah. 1054 00:45:05,746 --> 00:45:07,574 So I was walking my dog at night, 1055 00:45:07,705 --> 00:45:10,533 and then this police car drove-drove by. 1056 00:45:10,664 --> 00:45:12,710 And they just, like, flashed a flashlight at me, 1057 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:14,276 and they looked like they were about to stop. 1058 00:45:14,407 --> 00:45:16,061 When they first looked at me, I just, like, 1059 00:45:16,191 --> 00:45:17,845 pulled my hoodie down, 'cause I know that 1060 00:45:17,976 --> 00:45:19,934 that's one thing that they'll, like, think of 1061 00:45:20,065 --> 00:45:22,067 if you have your hoodie on and all that. 1062 00:45:22,197 --> 00:45:24,243 So I just tried to, like, 1063 00:45:24,373 --> 00:45:27,246 think of reasons to make them keep going. 1064 00:45:28,813 --> 00:45:30,640 McGEE: Just culturally, 1065 00:45:30,771 --> 00:45:32,512 we don't look at it as it's racism. 1066 00:45:32,642 --> 00:45:36,472 We look at it as this is how it is. 1067 00:45:38,910 --> 00:45:40,738 And we really don't even realize, like, 1068 00:45:40,868 --> 00:45:43,610 every time I see a cop, I feel... 1069 00:45:43,741 --> 00:45:46,395 I get tense, I get... I get nervous, 1070 00:45:46,526 --> 00:45:49,659 and I don't have a drug or a gun in my car. 1071 00:45:49,790 --> 00:45:53,272 So I should have the same confidence a white man has. 1072 00:45:53,402 --> 00:45:57,363 Do white people even notice when the police are by them? 1073 00:45:57,493 --> 00:45:58,668 Because I stop breathing. 1074 00:45:58,799 --> 00:45:59,757 Mm-hmm. 1075 00:45:59,887 --> 00:46:01,062 I'm literally like, 1076 00:46:01,193 --> 00:46:02,585 let me turn my music down 1077 00:46:02,716 --> 00:46:04,413 because I'm in my car that I'm paying for... 1078 00:46:04,544 --> 00:46:05,893 Right. 1079 00:46:06,024 --> 00:46:07,677 ...to make sure that I don't get shot. 1080 00:46:07,808 --> 00:46:09,505 My father was a policeman. 1081 00:46:09,636 --> 00:46:11,203 He told me one thing. 1082 00:46:11,333 --> 00:46:14,249 When the cops stop you, do what they tell you. 1083 00:46:14,380 --> 00:46:16,643 MAN: Keep your hands on that steering wheel 1084 00:46:16,774 --> 00:46:19,559 at all times. 1085 00:46:19,689 --> 00:46:23,041 When he come to that car, it's, "Yes, sir. No, sir." 1086 00:46:23,171 --> 00:46:25,783 I'd rather, you know, go file a complaint 1087 00:46:25,913 --> 00:46:30,700 than sit there and have to bury my son or my daughter. 1088 00:46:30,831 --> 00:46:33,268 I have a lot of family in law enforcement, 1089 00:46:33,399 --> 00:46:35,531 and I had one who told me, yeah, there-there's 1090 00:46:35,662 --> 00:46:38,230 some crooked cops who, 1091 00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,754 you know, use the union to back them. 1092 00:46:40,885 --> 00:46:43,235 It intimidates a lot of other people on the force 1093 00:46:43,365 --> 00:46:45,411 that want to do good things. 1094 00:46:45,541 --> 00:46:48,327 So I drive slow. 1095 00:46:48,457 --> 00:46:52,853 I have LSU Alumni on the back of my car 1096 00:46:52,984 --> 00:46:55,638 because somebody told me once, 1097 00:46:55,769 --> 00:46:58,206 you know, if you put your college on the back of there, 1098 00:46:58,337 --> 00:46:59,904 they-they... they may be more likely 1099 00:47:00,034 --> 00:47:01,688 to leave you alone. 1100 00:47:01,819 --> 00:47:03,429 'Cause they're like, well, at least this dude's educated. 1101 00:47:03,559 --> 00:47:05,779 You know, after what happened to me in New York, 1102 00:47:05,910 --> 00:47:09,174 um, I-I just have a different view, I guess, 1103 00:47:09,304 --> 00:47:11,176 on the-the judicial system. 1104 00:47:11,306 --> 00:47:13,918 -[ siren wailing ] -They're not doing anything! 1105 00:47:14,048 --> 00:47:16,224 -They didn't do nothing! -They didn't do anything! 1106 00:47:16,355 --> 00:47:18,357 REPORTER: NBA forward Thabo Sefolosha 1107 00:47:18,487 --> 00:47:21,447 is suing the city of New York and five of its police officers 1108 00:47:21,577 --> 00:47:23,492 following an incident that landed him 1109 00:47:23,623 --> 00:47:25,799 and teammate Pero Antic in jail. 1110 00:47:25,930 --> 00:47:28,802 [ overlapping voices ] 1111 00:47:30,412 --> 00:47:32,023 REPORTER: Sefolosha has filed a civil lawsuit 1112 00:47:32,153 --> 00:47:34,068 after suffering a broken fibula 1113 00:47:34,199 --> 00:47:35,678 and ligament damage that caused him 1114 00:47:35,809 --> 00:47:37,115 to end his season. 1115 00:47:37,245 --> 00:47:39,769 Black people are viewed as poor, mostly. 1116 00:47:39,900 --> 00:47:42,294 You know, I was in a nice neighborhood in New York City. 1117 00:47:42,424 --> 00:47:45,688 Uh... the easy target at that time was probably me. 1118 00:47:45,819 --> 00:47:50,041 If something happened to him, there's a less likely chance, 1119 00:47:50,171 --> 00:47:53,522 you know, that he has a father with money to pay for a lawyer 1120 00:47:53,653 --> 00:47:55,655 or that he has his own money for a lawyer. 1121 00:47:55,785 --> 00:47:57,222 And-and that's, I'm sure, 1122 00:47:57,352 --> 00:47:58,963 you know, part of the-- of the problem. 1123 00:47:59,093 --> 00:48:00,921 INTERVIEWER: You faced a series of charges, 1124 00:48:01,052 --> 00:48:03,315 but you were offered a plea deal. 1125 00:48:03,445 --> 00:48:04,925 -Mm-hmm. -But instead, 1126 00:48:05,056 --> 00:48:06,361 you went to trial. 1127 00:48:06,492 --> 00:48:08,407 Why didn't you take the deal? 1128 00:48:08,537 --> 00:48:10,278 Because it wasn't right. It wasn't right. 1129 00:48:10,409 --> 00:48:12,280 But you risked going to jail. 1130 00:48:12,411 --> 00:48:14,804 And that's why we talk about that systemic problem, you know? 1131 00:48:14,935 --> 00:48:17,633 The-the judicial system shocked me almost more than-- 1132 00:48:17,764 --> 00:48:20,114 than what the police officer did to me in New York, 1133 00:48:20,245 --> 00:48:22,769 you know, in the streets. I was very lucky and fortunate 1134 00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:25,598 to be able to fight it, but a lot of people are not. 1135 00:48:25,728 --> 00:48:27,339 And I think it's-- it's really destructing, 1136 00:48:27,469 --> 00:48:29,080 uh, a whole community. 1137 00:48:30,864 --> 00:48:32,910 ♪ 1138 00:48:34,737 --> 00:48:36,652 SPEARS: One thing I think that has been 1139 00:48:36,783 --> 00:48:39,090 very instrumental in changing things 1140 00:48:39,220 --> 00:48:41,440 is the cops have to wear body cameras. 1141 00:48:41,570 --> 00:48:44,617 And it's interesting now 1142 00:48:44,747 --> 00:48:47,533 'cause when something does happen, 1143 00:48:47,663 --> 00:48:50,014 we wait for it, we wait for it, we wait for it. 1144 00:48:50,144 --> 00:48:52,451 When-when we hear that it's questionable, 1145 00:48:52,581 --> 00:48:54,540 okay, when's the body cam video coming out? 1146 00:48:56,237 --> 00:48:58,500 OFFICER: How you doing? Got a driver's license? 1147 00:48:58,631 --> 00:49:00,198 Can I get another squad here? 1148 00:49:00,328 --> 00:49:01,808 Can you explain this to me? 1149 00:49:01,939 --> 00:49:04,289 You have an entirely empty parking lot, 1150 00:49:04,419 --> 00:49:05,986 and you parked across two-- 1151 00:49:06,117 --> 00:49:07,596 I pull-- I pulled up, parked right here. 1152 00:49:07,727 --> 00:49:09,424 I was getting out right here. 1153 00:49:09,555 --> 00:49:11,905 I-I definitely salute those who do their job the right way 1154 00:49:12,036 --> 00:49:13,646 and, you know, help out in the community. 1155 00:49:13,776 --> 00:49:15,691 OFFICER: You came here by yourself? 1156 00:49:15,822 --> 00:49:17,389 STERLING BROWN: But for those who abuse their power 1157 00:49:17,519 --> 00:49:19,304 and try to, you know, show that they somebody 1158 00:49:19,434 --> 00:49:21,175 once they put on that badge, you know, 1159 00:49:21,306 --> 00:49:23,047 you ain't got no respect from a lot of us. 1160 00:49:23,177 --> 00:49:25,136 REPORTER: We do have some breaking news now. 1161 00:49:25,266 --> 00:49:27,529 Police have just released body cam video 1162 00:49:27,660 --> 00:49:29,923 of an altercation officers had with a member 1163 00:49:30,054 --> 00:49:32,099 of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team. 1164 00:49:32,230 --> 00:49:33,709 2nd REPORTER: That started with a parking violation. 1165 00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:35,668 I was standing there with my hands in my pockets 1166 00:49:35,798 --> 00:49:38,714 the whole time, the whole 20, 30 minutes. 1167 00:49:38,845 --> 00:49:40,499 It was cold outside. 1168 00:49:40,629 --> 00:49:42,588 That's when they, you know, escalated. 1169 00:49:42,718 --> 00:49:44,894 OFFICER: Get your hands out of your pockets now. 1170 00:49:45,025 --> 00:49:46,809 Hold on, I got stuff in my hands, 1171 00:49:46,940 --> 00:49:48,159 you want me to drop-- 1172 00:49:48,289 --> 00:49:49,987 -Come on, man. -All right, cuff him up. 1173 00:49:50,117 --> 00:49:51,858 -REPORTER: Brown was unarmed. -Somebody got a Taser? 1174 00:49:51,989 --> 00:49:54,904 REPORTER: Recordings from four different body cameras 1175 00:49:55,035 --> 00:49:57,559 show officers had Sterling Brown surrounded 1176 00:49:57,690 --> 00:50:00,910 before they took him to the ground and Tased him. 1177 00:50:01,041 --> 00:50:03,870 OFFICER: Taser, Taser, Tase him! 1178 00:50:04,001 --> 00:50:06,525 -[ groaning ] -Cuff him up, cuff him up. 1179 00:50:06,655 --> 00:50:08,309 REPORTER: The video appears to contradict 1180 00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:10,529 an initial police account that reportedly said 1181 00:50:10,659 --> 00:50:12,270 Brown was uncooperative. 1182 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:14,054 STERLING BROWN: They punchin', they kickin'. 1183 00:50:14,185 --> 00:50:16,578 The cop that Tased me, he drew his gun at first. 1184 00:50:16,709 --> 00:50:18,667 So, if I would've pushed one of those officers off, 1185 00:50:18,798 --> 00:50:19,886 he would've pulled the trigger 1186 00:50:20,017 --> 00:50:21,714 and would've been over with for me. 1187 00:50:21,844 --> 00:50:23,759 I wouldn't be here right now, you know, able to tell my story. 1188 00:50:23,890 --> 00:50:25,631 OFFICER: Put your hands behind your back. 1189 00:50:25,761 --> 00:50:27,502 STERLING BROWN: They are behind my back. 1190 00:50:27,633 --> 00:50:29,591 OFFICER: Mr. Brown, are you the Bucks player, man? 1191 00:50:29,722 --> 00:50:31,202 What you think? 1192 00:50:32,986 --> 00:50:35,771 Come on, now. You stepping on my ankle for what? 1193 00:50:38,818 --> 00:50:40,733 REPORTER: What started as one officer 1194 00:50:40,863 --> 00:50:44,432 engaging with a Black man over a routine parking violation 1195 00:50:44,563 --> 00:50:47,479 turned violent in an instant. 1196 00:50:49,220 --> 00:50:51,918 PLAYER: Defense, you gotta remember defense out here. 1197 00:50:56,662 --> 00:50:58,185 McGEE: Gigi, you miss Daddy? 1198 00:50:58,316 --> 00:50:59,317 Yeah! 1199 00:50:59,447 --> 00:51:01,623 Oh, man, I miss you too. 1200 00:51:01,754 --> 00:51:04,191 [ sighing ] 1201 00:51:06,019 --> 00:51:08,935 Gotta call my-- my baby right now. 1202 00:51:09,066 --> 00:51:11,633 Let you see that. 1203 00:51:11,764 --> 00:51:14,158 [ line ringing ] 1204 00:51:14,288 --> 00:51:16,116 [ woman baby-babbling ] 1205 00:51:16,247 --> 00:51:18,075 Hey, Nola! 1206 00:51:18,205 --> 00:51:19,641 [ wife baby-babbling ] 1207 00:51:19,772 --> 00:51:21,034 THYBULLE: Be normal. 1208 00:51:21,165 --> 00:51:22,514 [ laughter ] 1209 00:51:22,644 --> 00:51:24,168 Okay, I will be normal, I will be normal. 1210 00:51:24,298 --> 00:51:26,996 I will, see? 1211 00:51:27,127 --> 00:51:30,217 What are you doing? I said be normal! 1212 00:51:30,348 --> 00:51:32,524 [ laughing ] How you doing, my boy? 1213 00:51:32,654 --> 00:51:34,134 -You ready? -Yeah! 1214 00:51:34,265 --> 00:51:37,616 Tsh! Tsh! Tsh! 1215 00:51:37,746 --> 00:51:40,009 Uh, uh! 1216 00:51:40,140 --> 00:51:43,361 -Mwah! -Yeah! 1217 00:51:43,491 --> 00:51:45,798 My baby! I love you, baby. 1218 00:51:45,928 --> 00:51:48,801 -I love you, baby! -[ laughter ] 1219 00:51:48,975 --> 00:51:51,064 ♪ 1220 00:52:06,253 --> 00:52:08,821 REPORTER: It was a test for Commissioner Adam Silver. 1221 00:52:08,951 --> 00:52:10,779 In a statement, Silver said, "I respect 1222 00:52:10,910 --> 00:52:13,260 "our teams' unified act of peaceful protest 1223 00:52:13,391 --> 00:52:15,306 "for social justice. 1224 00:52:15,436 --> 00:52:17,438 A unified front top to bottom." 1225 00:52:17,569 --> 00:52:19,266 COMMENTATOR: Stuffs it, and is fouled! 1226 00:52:19,397 --> 00:52:21,050 -Oh! -An incredible play! 1227 00:52:21,181 --> 00:52:22,704 MAN: We've been out of sports for months. 1228 00:52:22,835 --> 00:52:24,619 BEN PICKMAN: They're playing without fans. 1229 00:52:24,750 --> 00:52:26,404 This is a once in a lifetime, once in a generation event 1230 00:52:26,534 --> 00:52:29,276 that will probably, hopefully, never happen again. 1231 00:52:29,407 --> 00:52:32,758 I'm just as excited as every NBA fan in the world right now. 1232 00:52:32,888 --> 00:52:35,326 REPORTER: The league is publicly supporting Black Lives Matter. 1233 00:52:35,456 --> 00:52:37,719 Players are wearing messages on their jerseys. 1234 00:52:37,850 --> 00:52:39,504 PLAYER: It really resonates. 1235 00:52:39,634 --> 00:52:41,027 We're playing for much more than just a game. 1236 00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:42,681 POWELL: I think it was imperative 1237 00:52:42,811 --> 00:52:44,422 that we have something to remind everyone 1238 00:52:44,552 --> 00:52:47,076 that we have not removed ourself from that conversation. 1239 00:52:47,207 --> 00:52:49,340 We've seen LeBron James and several other 1240 00:52:49,470 --> 00:52:51,646 current players focus on voting issues. 1241 00:52:51,777 --> 00:52:53,387 Time to get changed. 1242 00:52:53,518 --> 00:52:57,783 I don't give a damn what is on the back of somebody's jersey. 1243 00:52:57,913 --> 00:52:59,480 INTERVIEWER: So once that ball went up 1244 00:52:59,611 --> 00:53:01,178 and you guys started playing, how did it feel? 1245 00:53:01,308 --> 00:53:03,049 You know, not having a crowd... 1246 00:53:06,357 --> 00:53:08,533 ...it's a... a bit different at times. 1247 00:53:08,663 --> 00:53:11,492 COMMENTATOR: Rudy Gobert gets things started for Utah. 1248 00:53:11,623 --> 00:53:13,146 JAMAL CRAWFORD: It's, like, the purity of basketball, 1249 00:53:13,277 --> 00:53:16,454 'cause it's just you, your team, and the court. 1250 00:53:16,584 --> 00:53:18,456 COMMENTATOR: Look close, th-there's Weezy 1251 00:53:18,586 --> 00:53:20,327 right there, throw up the deuces. 1252 00:53:20,458 --> 00:53:22,155 Can they-- the players, they can't see 1253 00:53:22,286 --> 00:53:23,939 those people in the stands, can they? 1254 00:53:24,070 --> 00:53:25,202 They're virtual. 1255 00:53:25,332 --> 00:53:26,594 What do you mean they can't see 'em? 1256 00:53:26,725 --> 00:53:28,074 COMMENTATOR: Williamson with that... 1257 00:53:28,205 --> 00:53:29,467 Congratulations on your first win, Zion. 1258 00:53:29,597 --> 00:53:30,816 Am I supposed to be looking at somebody? 1259 00:53:30,946 --> 00:53:32,687 -You can look at me. -[ laughter ] 1260 00:53:32,818 --> 00:53:34,646 It's been amazing that we've been able to use the media, 1261 00:53:34,776 --> 00:53:37,692 TV, to our advantage of-- of pushing a message. 1262 00:53:37,823 --> 00:53:39,433 We want to make sure that 1263 00:53:39,564 --> 00:53:42,567 Daniel Cameron will arrest the cops involved 1264 00:53:42,697 --> 00:53:44,830 with Breonna Taylor's death. 1265 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:47,180 That's really why we came to play. 1266 00:53:47,311 --> 00:53:49,400 That's good, that's gonna be my answer for every question. 1267 00:53:49,530 --> 00:53:51,010 If you come up and interview me after a game, 1268 00:53:51,140 --> 00:53:52,664 you can ask me whatever you want to, 1269 00:53:52,794 --> 00:53:55,057 but I can tell you whatever I want to tell you. 1270 00:53:55,188 --> 00:53:58,060 I think it's a real evolution 1271 00:53:58,191 --> 00:53:59,888 of the-the civil rights movement. 1272 00:54:00,019 --> 00:54:02,108 They damned if they do, damned if they don't, 1273 00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,328 but at least they're recognizing 1274 00:54:04,458 --> 00:54:07,200 that this matters by putting it on their platform, 1275 00:54:07,331 --> 00:54:09,376 which millions of people are gonna see. 1276 00:54:09,507 --> 00:54:14,381 How many times in our lifetime have we seen symbolic gestures 1277 00:54:14,512 --> 00:54:16,427 that have amounted to close to nothing 1278 00:54:16,557 --> 00:54:20,169 in terms of really provoking a change in this country? 1279 00:54:20,300 --> 00:54:21,736 Words create change. 1280 00:54:21,867 --> 00:54:22,955 If you don't have the words, you don't create change-- 1281 00:54:23,085 --> 00:54:24,565 No, action creates change. 1282 00:54:24,696 --> 00:54:27,089 -Whoa! -This is for the win! 1283 00:54:27,220 --> 00:54:30,658 -Got it! Wow! -What a shot. 1284 00:54:30,789 --> 00:54:32,834 Wow. 1285 00:54:32,965 --> 00:54:36,577 ROBERTS: Guys, understand that, whether you restart or not, 1286 00:54:36,708 --> 00:54:39,798 there's gonna be another Black man killed by the police. 1287 00:54:46,761 --> 00:54:49,242 REPORTER: It all followed an incident caught on video, 1288 00:54:49,373 --> 00:54:51,288 which appeared to show police shooting 1289 00:54:51,418 --> 00:54:55,509 29-year-old Jacob Blake multiple times in the back. 1290 00:55:01,036 --> 00:55:02,951 We're here... 1291 00:55:03,082 --> 00:55:04,866 standing for my son 1292 00:55:04,997 --> 00:55:07,304 because he cannot stand for himself. 1293 00:55:11,133 --> 00:55:13,179 I live because of my family. 1294 00:55:13,310 --> 00:55:17,183 I live day to day because of my children. 1295 00:55:17,314 --> 00:55:19,664 With no family, I would have no meaning. 1296 00:55:21,187 --> 00:55:23,755 They are my meaning and my purpose. 1297 00:55:26,540 --> 00:55:28,629 They shot my son... 1298 00:55:29,717 --> 00:55:32,851 ...s-seven times. 1299 00:55:32,981 --> 00:55:35,201 Seven times. 1300 00:55:38,335 --> 00:55:41,947 Like he didn't matter. But my son matters. 1301 00:55:42,077 --> 00:55:43,992 JUSTIN BLAKE: We are angry as hell, 1302 00:55:44,123 --> 00:55:45,516 and everybody should know it. 1303 00:55:45,646 --> 00:55:47,474 And it shouldn't have to be polite, 1304 00:55:47,605 --> 00:55:49,128 and you shouldn't be able to play me like 1305 00:55:49,258 --> 00:55:51,304 the angry Black guy when my nephew was shot 1306 00:55:51,435 --> 00:55:53,393 seven times in the back. 1307 00:55:53,524 --> 00:55:57,441 One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven? 1308 00:55:57,571 --> 00:55:59,617 DONNELL LAUDERDALE: That's my neighbor. He asked me 1309 00:55:59,747 --> 00:56:01,706 if my son could come to his son's birthday party. 1310 00:56:01,836 --> 00:56:04,448 He-he had presents in both his hands. 1311 00:56:04,578 --> 00:56:07,581 I couldn't even cry. I couldn't cry. 1312 00:56:07,712 --> 00:56:10,018 LEADER: Black Lives Matter! 1313 00:56:10,149 --> 00:56:12,151 CROWD: Black Lives Matter! 1314 00:56:12,281 --> 00:56:14,153 LETETRA WIDMAN: They desensitized us. 1315 00:56:14,283 --> 00:56:16,416 So by the time it got to my brother's video, 1316 00:56:16,547 --> 00:56:19,680 it was like, oh... 1317 00:56:19,811 --> 00:56:21,769 I'm not exempt. 1318 00:56:21,900 --> 00:56:25,643 It's become such a weekly event, it-it's almost numbing. 1319 00:56:25,773 --> 00:56:27,688 Here we go again. Here we go again. 1320 00:56:27,819 --> 00:56:29,386 I can't make sense of it anymore, 1321 00:56:29,516 --> 00:56:31,736 and I had been watching 1322 00:56:31,866 --> 00:56:35,522 every single video that is posted. 1323 00:56:35,653 --> 00:56:39,396 I wish I could stop doing that 1324 00:56:39,526 --> 00:56:43,530 because it is making me angry and sad and hopeless. 1325 00:56:43,661 --> 00:56:45,097 OFFICER: Hey, she's down at the end of the hall. 1326 00:56:45,227 --> 00:56:47,099 I'm supposed to... 1327 00:56:48,753 --> 00:56:51,016 ...stand still. 1328 00:56:51,146 --> 00:56:53,235 I'm supposed to behave a certain way, 1329 00:56:53,366 --> 00:56:56,891 but everything inside of me tells me to flee. 1330 00:56:57,022 --> 00:56:59,328 WOMAN: No... don't you do it! 1331 00:56:59,459 --> 00:57:00,895 Don't you do it! 1332 00:57:01,026 --> 00:57:03,898 [ gunfire ] 1333 00:57:04,029 --> 00:57:06,074 JUSTIN BLAKE: Less than a foot and a half 1334 00:57:06,205 --> 00:57:08,337 from three kids on the other side of the door. 1335 00:57:08,468 --> 00:57:10,514 [ laughing ] 1336 00:57:10,644 --> 00:57:12,994 Man, give me a break, cuz, please. 1337 00:57:13,125 --> 00:57:15,083 Ah. 1338 00:57:15,214 --> 00:57:17,477 MAN: Take your time, man. 1339 00:57:18,957 --> 00:57:20,437 PAUL: It's real emotion. 1340 00:57:20,567 --> 00:57:21,960 Like, it's real emotion, 1341 00:57:22,090 --> 00:57:25,398 and, um... [ scoffing ] 1342 00:57:25,529 --> 00:57:27,139 it's hard to know what to say. 1343 00:57:27,269 --> 00:57:29,358 If you were trained to see people, 1344 00:57:29,489 --> 00:57:31,622 generation after generation, 1345 00:57:31,752 --> 00:57:34,538 as property and a nuisance... 1346 00:57:34,668 --> 00:57:36,627 that's what the world was trained to see us as. 1347 00:57:36,757 --> 00:57:40,195 First property, and then a nuisance. 1348 00:57:41,675 --> 00:57:43,982 How can you empathize with those people? 1349 00:57:45,287 --> 00:57:47,420 You don't. Look at the headlines. 1350 00:57:51,946 --> 00:57:53,774 That child, Kyle Rittenhouse, 1351 00:57:53,905 --> 00:57:56,255 was written as a troubled child. 1352 00:57:56,385 --> 00:57:58,562 Trayvon Martin was written as a thug. 1353 00:57:58,692 --> 00:58:02,087 The white boy who shot them kids... dead? 1354 00:58:02,217 --> 00:58:04,916 That was at the gas station a block from here. 1355 00:58:05,046 --> 00:58:06,613 REPORTER: As the crowd scattered, 1356 00:58:06,744 --> 00:58:08,441 the man walked through the middle of the street 1357 00:58:08,572 --> 00:58:10,225 with his hands up as police arrived. 1358 00:58:10,356 --> 00:58:13,707 Though officers did not challenge or apprehend him. 1359 00:58:13,838 --> 00:58:15,448 JUSTIN BLAKE: He crossed state lines 1360 00:58:15,579 --> 00:58:17,276 with a military-style weapon. 1361 00:58:17,406 --> 00:58:19,104 He went home. 1362 00:58:19,234 --> 00:58:22,542 If a Black man shot anybody, went across state lines, 1363 00:58:22,673 --> 00:58:25,545 they would have a task force kicking down the door 1364 00:58:25,676 --> 00:58:27,895 bringing him back to justice. 1365 00:58:28,026 --> 00:58:29,854 LAUDERDALE: That's how you know something wrong 1366 00:58:29,984 --> 00:58:32,857 when people willing to destroy where they live at. 1367 00:58:32,987 --> 00:58:35,033 That's how you know something wrong. 1368 00:58:35,163 --> 00:58:37,035 They gave the white boy $2 million 1369 00:58:37,165 --> 00:58:39,254 to help fund his case. 1370 00:58:39,385 --> 00:58:40,995 JACOB BLAKE, SR.: I've been getting death threats since 1371 00:58:41,126 --> 00:58:43,432 the first week I said something at the news conference. 1372 00:58:44,390 --> 00:58:46,435 Hundred and twenty-two. 1373 00:58:46,566 --> 00:58:48,742 And all I did was 1374 00:58:48,873 --> 00:58:52,050 tell the world my son's a human being. 1375 00:58:52,180 --> 00:58:55,706 LAUDERDALE: We was brought here when we ain't want to be here. 1376 00:58:55,836 --> 00:58:58,447 One of the news guys said, "Well, why don't you go back?" 1377 00:58:58,578 --> 00:59:01,276 Go back where, motherfucker? 1378 00:59:01,407 --> 00:59:04,453 Like, really, we the only race in the United States 1379 00:59:04,584 --> 00:59:07,282 do not know where the fuck we came from. 1380 00:59:07,413 --> 00:59:11,156 The only race that don't know where we came from. 1381 00:59:11,286 --> 00:59:12,897 -[ siren whoops ] -Speaking of the devil. 1382 00:59:13,027 --> 00:59:14,333 Don't look at me. 1383 00:59:15,769 --> 00:59:17,771 I live here. This my neighborhood. 1384 00:59:17,902 --> 00:59:20,252 Shit terrifying. 1385 00:59:20,382 --> 00:59:22,733 See, and they find the shit funny. 1386 00:59:24,386 --> 00:59:26,475 Just do your job. Don't do me. 1387 00:59:27,781 --> 00:59:29,435 BLAKE, SR.: At what particular time 1388 00:59:29,566 --> 00:59:34,048 are we supposed to say enough is enough? 1389 00:59:34,179 --> 00:59:38,139 At what time in the revolution is that gonna be acceptable? 1390 00:59:39,967 --> 00:59:42,317 Or are you still gonna be fearful of me 1391 00:59:42,448 --> 00:59:44,711 to kill me before I can explain to you 1392 00:59:44,842 --> 00:59:47,322 why you don't need to be fearful of me? 1393 00:59:47,453 --> 00:59:50,195 We all tired of just seeing the same thing 1394 00:59:50,325 --> 00:59:52,240 over and over again. 1395 00:59:52,371 --> 00:59:54,721 It's amazing to me... 1396 00:59:54,852 --> 00:59:57,637 why we keep loving this country 1397 00:59:57,768 --> 01:00:01,249 and this country does not love us back. 1398 01:00:01,380 --> 01:00:03,121 You know, it's, uh, it's getting to a point 1399 01:00:03,251 --> 01:00:06,124 where people are getting tired and fed up, man. For real. 1400 01:00:10,998 --> 01:00:12,957 -Go right here? -Yes. 1401 01:00:17,309 --> 01:00:20,660 We... we're going to place a statement as a team today 1402 01:00:20,791 --> 01:00:24,142 and go back and continue to educate ourself 1403 01:00:24,272 --> 01:00:26,231 and get better awareness of what's going on. 1404 01:00:26,361 --> 01:00:29,147 And then we're gonna speak to you guys later, so... 1405 01:00:29,277 --> 01:00:32,019 We're gonna read the statement now. 1406 01:00:32,150 --> 01:00:34,152 All right, the team statement, um, 1407 01:00:34,282 --> 01:00:35,762 "The past four months have shed a light 1408 01:00:35,893 --> 01:00:37,503 "on the ongoing racial injustices 1409 01:00:37,634 --> 01:00:39,331 "facing our African American community. 1410 01:00:39,461 --> 01:00:40,898 "Citizens around the country 1411 01:00:41,028 --> 01:00:42,856 "have used their voices and platforms 1412 01:00:42,987 --> 01:00:44,902 "to speak out against these wrongdoings. 1413 01:00:45,032 --> 01:00:47,644 "Over the last few days in our home state of Wisconsin, 1414 01:00:47,774 --> 01:00:49,820 "we've seen the horrendous video of Jacob Blake 1415 01:00:49,950 --> 01:00:51,822 "being shot in the back seven times 1416 01:00:51,952 --> 01:00:53,562 "by a police officer in Kenosha. 1417 01:00:53,693 --> 01:00:55,173 "Despite the overwhelming plea for change, 1418 01:00:55,303 --> 01:00:57,001 "there has been no action. 1419 01:00:57,131 --> 01:01:00,004 So our focus today cannot be on basketball." 1420 01:01:00,134 --> 01:01:01,832 RIVERS: The players decided 1421 01:01:01,962 --> 01:01:04,182 we needed to take a breath. 1422 01:01:04,312 --> 01:01:06,532 It's not lost to me, the same breath that 1423 01:01:06,663 --> 01:01:08,273 George Floyd was not allowed to take. 1424 01:01:08,403 --> 01:01:11,058 Our players decided we're taking one. 1425 01:01:12,712 --> 01:01:15,149 George Hill ignited it. 1426 01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:18,196 Sterling got the fire hotter. 1427 01:01:18,326 --> 01:01:19,763 REPORTER: The Milwaukee Bucks literally 1428 01:01:19,893 --> 01:01:21,547 decided just before they went out. 1429 01:01:21,678 --> 01:01:23,549 That's how quickly it evolved. 1430 01:01:23,680 --> 01:01:26,378 When the game stopped, everyone was having 1431 01:01:26,508 --> 01:01:29,033 a hard time processing everything that was going on. 1432 01:01:29,163 --> 01:01:31,731 I was shocked. I was shocked, you know? 1433 01:01:31,862 --> 01:01:35,561 I was-- I totally understood right away why they would do it. 1434 01:01:35,692 --> 01:01:37,084 We, like, had a game that night, 1435 01:01:37,215 --> 01:01:39,173 so we was getting our minds right. 1436 01:01:39,304 --> 01:01:41,523 I think I woke up from a nap, somebody knocking on my door, 1437 01:01:41,654 --> 01:01:43,351 like, yo, the Bucks not playing. 1438 01:01:43,482 --> 01:01:45,397 Even though it was right before the game, I can see, boom. 1439 01:01:45,527 --> 01:01:47,486 REPORTER: Russell Westbrook and Chris Paul. 1440 01:01:47,616 --> 01:01:49,053 Here they are leaving. 1441 01:01:49,183 --> 01:01:50,663 Now, the reason why this is important is 1442 01:01:50,794 --> 01:01:52,883 Chris Paul is the president of the NBPA. 1443 01:01:53,013 --> 01:01:55,581 Chris called me and said, "No one's playing." 1444 01:01:55,712 --> 01:01:58,758 I think that was the same night we had the first meeting. 1445 01:01:58,889 --> 01:02:00,238 I think it was the same night. 1446 01:02:00,368 --> 01:02:02,719 These-these days are just blurring. 1447 01:02:02,849 --> 01:02:05,286 There are times where you know the best thing to do 1448 01:02:05,417 --> 01:02:07,593 is keep the peace, keep your head down. 1449 01:02:07,724 --> 01:02:10,291 And there are times where you're called to do something. 1450 01:02:10,422 --> 01:02:12,380 Not playing a game, I mean, 1451 01:02:12,511 --> 01:02:14,339 it seemed like a grain of sand on the beach. 1452 01:02:14,469 --> 01:02:15,862 [ chuckling ] 1453 01:02:15,993 --> 01:02:18,082 But, you know, sometimes a grain of sand 1454 01:02:18,212 --> 01:02:20,954 can do a lot of damage when it multiplies. 1455 01:02:21,085 --> 01:02:23,043 And, uh, it-it sparked something huge. 1456 01:02:23,174 --> 01:02:25,872 Tonight, the NBA postponing all three playoff games. 1457 01:02:26,003 --> 01:02:27,874 An extraordinary move which was then 1458 01:02:28,005 --> 01:02:29,746 followed by the WNBA. 1459 01:02:29,876 --> 01:02:32,357 GREEN: MLB, NFL, soccer, 1460 01:02:32,487 --> 01:02:34,054 everybody stopped playing. 1461 01:02:34,185 --> 01:02:35,795 REPORTER: Take a look at tennis, Naomi Osaka, 1462 01:02:35,926 --> 01:02:38,102 she will also be boycotting in her semifinal match. 1463 01:02:38,232 --> 01:02:40,147 Man, I'm sure back here in the bubble, they're like, 1464 01:02:40,278 --> 01:02:42,323 oh wow, we-- people are listening. 1465 01:02:42,454 --> 01:02:43,890 ELIZABETH WILLIAMS: We stand in solidarity 1466 01:02:44,021 --> 01:02:45,500 with our brothers in the NBA 1467 01:02:45,631 --> 01:02:47,241 and will continue this conversation 1468 01:02:47,372 --> 01:02:48,852 and look to take collective action. 1469 01:02:48,982 --> 01:02:50,462 This was a different level of protest, 1470 01:02:50,592 --> 01:02:53,030 a different level of resistance 1471 01:02:53,160 --> 01:02:55,119 than we've ever seen. 1472 01:02:55,249 --> 01:02:56,860 LeBRON JAMES: We are scared as Black people in America. 1473 01:02:56,990 --> 01:02:58,862 We are-- We are terrified. 1474 01:02:58,992 --> 01:03:01,429 How many times in a Black man's life, 1475 01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:03,518 in my life, have I been told, 1476 01:03:03,649 --> 01:03:06,478 "Oh, not right now, now is not the time"? 1477 01:03:06,608 --> 01:03:10,308 The right time is now. It's always now. 1478 01:03:10,438 --> 01:03:12,658 WIDMAN: Black men have the power 1479 01:03:12,789 --> 01:03:15,139 to end almost every professional sports league 1480 01:03:15,269 --> 01:03:17,750 in the country right now if they wanted to. 1481 01:03:17,881 --> 01:03:19,926 I think it's best for me to support the players 1482 01:03:20,057 --> 01:03:22,407 and just not be here tonight. 1483 01:03:22,537 --> 01:03:24,626 I don't agree with entertaining people 1484 01:03:24,757 --> 01:03:27,368 who are feeding into my demise. 1485 01:03:37,770 --> 01:03:39,337 RIVERS: Some players were mad. 1486 01:03:39,467 --> 01:03:41,861 I said, "Your anger's in the wrong place." 1487 01:03:41,992 --> 01:03:44,429 I said, "The biggest thing we have to do 1488 01:03:44,559 --> 01:03:46,692 "is figure out what we want to do. 1489 01:03:46,823 --> 01:03:49,738 "And listen, the Bucks didn't put you here. 1490 01:03:49,869 --> 01:03:52,002 "The cops put you here. 1491 01:03:52,132 --> 01:03:54,352 All right? Racism put you here." 1492 01:03:54,482 --> 01:03:57,442 INTERVIEWER: Give us your own definition of systematic racism. 1493 01:03:57,572 --> 01:03:59,096 "What's systematic racism"? 1494 01:03:59,226 --> 01:04:01,533 PAT CONNAUGHTON: Just to be frank and honest, 1495 01:04:01,663 --> 01:04:05,363 I always thought saying, you know, I didn't-- 1496 01:04:05,493 --> 01:04:07,974 I don't see color, like, I see all of us as equal 1497 01:04:08,105 --> 01:04:10,542 was a positive thing. 1498 01:04:10,672 --> 01:04:12,196 I had a few of my teammates say, "No, 1499 01:04:12,326 --> 01:04:14,154 "I want you to see the color in me. 1500 01:04:14,285 --> 01:04:15,939 "I want you to see the color in me 1501 01:04:16,069 --> 01:04:17,549 and still treat me the same way." 1502 01:04:17,679 --> 01:04:19,290 I don't even know what systemic racism is. 1503 01:04:19,420 --> 01:04:20,944 I just started hearing that probably, like, 1504 01:04:21,074 --> 01:04:22,423 two, three years ago. 1505 01:04:22,554 --> 01:04:24,121 Racism to me is just racism, period. 1506 01:04:24,251 --> 01:04:26,514 I never even checked the definition of it. 1507 01:04:26,645 --> 01:04:29,039 I come from, like, direct racism where people, 1508 01:04:29,169 --> 01:04:30,605 like, hate you for you. 1509 01:04:30,736 --> 01:04:32,912 Hate you for, like, the way you look, 1510 01:04:33,043 --> 01:04:34,479 the way you walk, the way you dress, 1511 01:04:34,609 --> 01:04:37,003 the way you-- whatever you represent. 1512 01:04:37,134 --> 01:04:39,223 NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: The way that we are taught to think about racism 1513 01:04:39,353 --> 01:04:41,181 is it's just about someone's bad feelings. 1514 01:04:41,312 --> 01:04:44,706 Does someone like me or not? That's frankly irrelevant. 1515 01:04:44,837 --> 01:04:49,015 Racism has always been about economic exploitation and power. 1516 01:04:49,146 --> 01:04:52,497 Slavery was a system of economic exploitation. 1517 01:04:52,627 --> 01:04:54,586 It was turning people into property 1518 01:04:54,716 --> 01:04:56,675 in order to be able to extract 1519 01:04:56,805 --> 01:04:58,590 as much profit as you could from their bodies. 1520 01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,419 The racism came in order to justify 1521 01:05:01,549 --> 01:05:04,944 the economic exploitation, not the reverse. 1522 01:05:05,075 --> 01:05:07,468 WOMAN: ...believe that slavery put a curse on us somehow. 1523 01:05:07,599 --> 01:05:09,514 BALDWIN: Well, it is a curse. 1524 01:05:09,644 --> 01:05:11,342 You know? 1525 01:05:11,472 --> 01:05:13,822 Um, the American sense of reality is dictated 1526 01:05:13,953 --> 01:05:15,737 by what Americans are trying to avoid. 1527 01:05:15,868 --> 01:05:20,003 And if you're trying to avoid reality, how can you face it? 1528 01:05:21,439 --> 01:05:22,875 RIVERS: I've had a lot of things 1529 01:05:23,006 --> 01:05:25,138 that have happened to me in my life. 1530 01:05:27,880 --> 01:05:30,187 Skinheads came in and burned my house down, 1531 01:05:30,317 --> 01:05:32,624 uh, because I was interracially married. 1532 01:05:32,754 --> 01:05:35,409 Locked my animals in a closet on purpose, 1533 01:05:35,540 --> 01:05:38,195 uh, and my house was burned down to the ground, 1534 01:05:38,325 --> 01:05:41,459 for one reason: because of the color of my skin. 1535 01:05:41,589 --> 01:05:45,245 JAYLEN BROWN: There's a lot of stereotypes around Black men. 1536 01:05:45,376 --> 01:05:47,160 We can't control ourselves. 1537 01:05:47,291 --> 01:05:49,597 We are angry, aggressive, or violent. 1538 01:05:49,728 --> 01:05:51,904 We don't care about, you know, 1539 01:05:52,035 --> 01:05:54,559 our own kids or our community. 1540 01:05:54,689 --> 01:05:57,301 The most successful marketing tool ever created 1541 01:05:57,431 --> 01:05:59,346 was to make you fear Black people 1542 01:05:59,477 --> 01:06:01,522 because that's how you keep the white supremacy in place, 1543 01:06:01,653 --> 01:06:04,177 and that's how you keep the economic advancement 1544 01:06:04,308 --> 01:06:06,092 in place for one group of people. 1545 01:06:06,223 --> 01:06:07,659 RIVERS: Think about that. 1546 01:06:07,789 --> 01:06:10,444 If you give anybody a 200-point lead 1547 01:06:10,575 --> 01:06:13,665 to start-- to start the game and then tell me, okay, guys, 1548 01:06:13,795 --> 01:06:15,319 now the game is gonna be equal, 1549 01:06:15,449 --> 01:06:17,669 well, no, the game's not gonna be equal. 1550 01:06:17,799 --> 01:06:19,323 They're up 200. 1551 01:06:19,453 --> 01:06:21,716 They're gonna be in front, generational wealth, 1552 01:06:21,847 --> 01:06:24,502 and then generational poverty is created. 1553 01:06:24,632 --> 01:06:27,374 How can you win? The game is fixed. 1554 01:06:27,505 --> 01:06:29,550 How can you win the game that actually still has 1555 01:06:29,681 --> 01:06:32,510 laws on the books that are designed 1556 01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:34,729 to make sure you don't win? 1557 01:06:34,860 --> 01:06:38,037 That's why you have to look at instances like Tulsa. 1558 01:06:38,168 --> 01:06:41,171 These are places where people built Black economic wealth, 1559 01:06:41,301 --> 01:06:43,782 and they utilized the marketing plan 1560 01:06:43,912 --> 01:06:48,656 to make you fear that crazy rapist Black man... 1561 01:06:48,787 --> 01:06:50,528 in order to make sure 1562 01:06:50,658 --> 01:06:52,617 that the economic structure stayed in place. 1563 01:06:52,747 --> 01:06:55,011 [ fire roaring ] 1564 01:06:57,883 --> 01:07:00,059 KILLER MIKE: In Greenwood, the neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma 1565 01:07:00,190 --> 01:07:02,322 that was Black-ran from top to bottom, 1566 01:07:02,453 --> 01:07:05,499 Black dollars went 36 times before they left the community. 1567 01:07:05,630 --> 01:07:07,632 That legacy deserves to live. 1568 01:07:07,762 --> 01:07:10,548 And if we don't start to take money seriously, 1569 01:07:10,678 --> 01:07:12,767 we're going to repeatedly be denied that. 1570 01:07:14,117 --> 01:07:15,727 ANDRE IGUODALA: The systematic oppression 1571 01:07:15,857 --> 01:07:19,122 has been put in place for us not to have group economics. 1572 01:07:19,252 --> 01:07:21,994 The African American community has the, you know, 1573 01:07:22,125 --> 01:07:23,909 most powerful spending dollar. 1574 01:07:24,040 --> 01:07:27,347 You know, we spend the most money on consumer products, um, 1575 01:07:27,478 --> 01:07:29,262 but if you dive a little deeper, 1576 01:07:29,393 --> 01:07:32,961 we have the least recycled dollar within our community. 1577 01:07:33,092 --> 01:07:34,876 You know, when you talk about recycling your money 1578 01:07:35,007 --> 01:07:36,443 within your own community, 1579 01:07:36,574 --> 01:07:38,097 that's what helps to build proper schools. 1580 01:07:38,228 --> 01:07:40,186 That's what's going to get people to vote. 1581 01:07:40,317 --> 01:07:42,754 That's what's gonna raise the value of the properties. 1582 01:07:42,884 --> 01:07:44,930 That's when you talk about ownership 1583 01:07:45,061 --> 01:07:46,627 and investing in yourself. 1584 01:07:46,758 --> 01:07:48,934 I think what we're really talking about in this country 1585 01:07:49,065 --> 01:07:50,501 is economic development of Black people, 1586 01:07:50,631 --> 01:07:51,719 because I've found that-- 1587 01:07:51,850 --> 01:07:53,373 Economic development of all people. 1588 01:07:53,504 --> 01:07:54,592 Well, we're talking about underprivileged people-- 1589 01:07:54,722 --> 01:07:56,028 How come just Black people? 1590 01:07:56,159 --> 01:07:57,508 How come you only want to do it for Black people? 1591 01:07:57,638 --> 01:07:59,162 How come you don't want to do it for white people? 1592 01:07:59,292 --> 01:08:00,511 Well, I'll-I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why. 1593 01:08:00,641 --> 01:08:01,729 Huh? How come you won't do it for everybody? 1594 01:08:01,860 --> 01:08:02,991 How come it's always Black people? 1595 01:08:03,122 --> 01:08:03,905 Why don't you talk about all people? 1596 01:08:04,036 --> 01:08:04,818 Can I give you an answer? 1597 01:08:04,950 --> 01:08:06,211 Please. 1598 01:08:06,343 --> 01:08:08,214 We were founded on the ideals of freedom 1599 01:08:08,345 --> 01:08:09,823 and the practice of slavery. 1600 01:08:09,955 --> 01:08:14,090 And our inability to deal with that hypocrisy 1601 01:08:14,220 --> 01:08:16,439 is why we saw a Black man 1602 01:08:16,570 --> 01:08:18,094 get lynched on national television 1603 01:08:18,224 --> 01:08:19,834 and why Black Americans have 1604 01:08:19,965 --> 01:08:22,054 continued to take to the streets for centuries. 1605 01:08:22,184 --> 01:08:23,447 -LEADER: ...her name? -CROWD: Breonna Taylor! 1606 01:08:23,577 --> 01:08:25,274 -What's his name? -Jacob Blake! 1607 01:08:26,318 --> 01:08:27,973 -What's his name? -Jacob Blake! 1608 01:08:29,017 --> 01:08:30,323 -What's his name? -Jacob Blake! 1609 01:08:30,454 --> 01:08:32,586 -No justice! -No peace! 1610 01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:34,849 ♪ 1611 01:08:38,418 --> 01:08:40,594 We got a top secret meeting. 1612 01:08:40,724 --> 01:08:42,814 SMITH: I think that, if the Milwaukee Bucks 1613 01:08:42,943 --> 01:08:44,684 stood alone, it would've been absolutely, 1614 01:08:44,816 --> 01:08:46,687 positively disastrous, but the fact that 1615 01:08:46,818 --> 01:08:49,081 they've all come together collectively, I think, 1616 01:08:49,211 --> 01:08:51,648 speaks profoundly about what's transpired. 1617 01:08:53,085 --> 01:08:54,695 So they had the first meeting. 1618 01:08:56,262 --> 01:08:58,134 That was the largest player meeting I-I've attended. 1619 01:08:58,264 --> 01:09:00,613 KLEMPNER: Never have we had the opportunity to say, 1620 01:09:00,745 --> 01:09:02,442 all right, everybody is here. 1621 01:09:02,573 --> 01:09:04,095 I want the Lakers in this corner. 1622 01:09:04,227 --> 01:09:06,010 I want the Raptors in this corner. 1623 01:09:06,142 --> 01:09:07,839 The meetings were serious. 1624 01:09:07,969 --> 01:09:10,015 Like, literally, every team was there. 1625 01:09:10,146 --> 01:09:13,452 HASLEM: It wasn't about the Heat or the Celtics or the Lakers 1626 01:09:13,584 --> 01:09:15,325 or the Mavericks, or none of that. 1627 01:09:15,455 --> 01:09:17,849 It was just about being on the right side of this shit. 1628 01:09:17,979 --> 01:09:19,372 RIVERS: That was a long night. 1629 01:09:19,503 --> 01:09:20,894 And as a coach, I gotta tell you, 1630 01:09:21,026 --> 01:09:22,854 I-I knew the bubble was hard, 1631 01:09:22,983 --> 01:09:24,290 but I didn't appreciate 1632 01:09:24,421 --> 01:09:26,031 how hard the bubble was until that night. 1633 01:09:26,162 --> 01:09:27,858 Guys are pouring out their feelings. 1634 01:09:27,988 --> 01:09:30,077 ROBERTS: And that's when the buzz began. 1635 01:09:30,209 --> 01:09:31,602 You know, what are we-- what are we doing here? 1636 01:09:31,732 --> 01:09:33,299 What's the point? They're still killing us. 1637 01:09:33,430 --> 01:09:34,866 You know, what are we doing here? 1638 01:09:34,996 --> 01:09:36,476 MARC DAVIS: And that, like everything, 1639 01:09:36,607 --> 01:09:38,260 would bring a level of anxiety 1640 01:09:38,390 --> 01:09:40,306 because it's the unknown, and we're not certain. 1641 01:09:40,437 --> 01:09:45,224 And I think, in times of crisis, that's when you really see 1642 01:09:45,355 --> 01:09:47,661 what you have and what you're made out of. 1643 01:09:47,792 --> 01:09:49,620 REPORTER: ...new and interesting insight 1644 01:09:49,750 --> 01:09:52,100 from what happened today in Orlando, 1645 01:09:52,231 --> 01:09:54,407 and even this evening, as the players 1646 01:09:54,538 --> 01:09:57,280 are talking about potentially not just not playing Thursday 1647 01:09:57,410 --> 01:10:00,587 but ending the playoffs altogether, here in 2020. 1648 01:10:00,718 --> 01:10:02,328 MAN: The league is bleeding money 1649 01:10:02,459 --> 01:10:04,156 every day that they're there, and especially 1650 01:10:04,287 --> 01:10:06,114 every day that they're there and not playing games. 1651 01:10:06,245 --> 01:10:08,726 I said, "Excuse me, 1652 01:10:08,856 --> 01:10:10,989 "you don't finish this season, 1653 01:10:11,119 --> 01:10:15,254 "that multibillion-dollar deal you agreed to... 1654 01:10:15,385 --> 01:10:17,300 is null and void." 1655 01:10:17,430 --> 01:10:19,258 REPORTER: ...Players Association, I'm told, 1656 01:10:19,389 --> 01:10:22,218 laid out for the players the financial implications. 1657 01:10:22,348 --> 01:10:24,524 KLEMPNER: I'm going to have to describe 1658 01:10:24,655 --> 01:10:26,874 to the players... 1659 01:10:27,005 --> 01:10:29,442 the financial impact 1660 01:10:29,573 --> 01:10:32,619 of our not playing 1661 01:10:32,750 --> 01:10:34,926 for the remainder of the playoffs. 1662 01:10:38,321 --> 01:10:40,410 I did it. And if there was a hook, 1663 01:10:40,540 --> 01:10:43,108 they would have pulled me off of the stage. 1664 01:10:43,239 --> 01:10:46,329 Um, this was about so much more than money. 1665 01:10:46,459 --> 01:10:47,982 SMITH: When these players 1666 01:10:48,113 --> 01:10:50,811 contemplated canceling play in the bubble, 1667 01:10:50,942 --> 01:10:53,379 it empowers the owner to rip up 1668 01:10:53,510 --> 01:10:54,946 the collective bargaining agreement, 1669 01:10:55,076 --> 01:10:56,600 take into account 1670 01:10:56,730 --> 01:10:59,516 the money already lost because of the pandemic, 1671 01:10:59,646 --> 01:11:03,041 project the money that will be lost in the future 1672 01:11:03,171 --> 01:11:04,825 because of the pandemic, 1673 01:11:04,956 --> 01:11:07,785 your role in compromising their bottom line, 1674 01:11:07,915 --> 01:11:10,266 and then they get to come to you and say, 1675 01:11:10,396 --> 01:11:13,051 "Well, you know what? You were making 35 million, 1676 01:11:13,181 --> 01:11:15,619 now let's drop that to 20." 1677 01:11:15,749 --> 01:11:18,578 REPORTER: Guaranteed lockout, if they go into it. 1678 01:11:18,709 --> 01:11:22,234 And, yeah, LeBron can take that time off, but can... 1679 01:11:22,365 --> 01:11:24,845 can the 12th person on the bench afford to take that time off? 1680 01:11:24,976 --> 01:11:27,413 Not only just the players; we're talking about the staff. 1681 01:11:27,544 --> 01:11:29,067 We're talking about all these people 1682 01:11:29,197 --> 01:11:30,721 that could be affected. 1683 01:11:30,851 --> 01:11:33,637 Again, uh, we were faced with this great decision of, 1684 01:11:33,767 --> 01:11:35,552 should we play, or shouldn't we play? 1685 01:11:35,682 --> 01:11:37,684 Understanding how each person felt was important, 1686 01:11:37,815 --> 01:11:39,382 and then trying to figure out, you know, 1687 01:11:39,512 --> 01:11:40,644 where we go from there. 1688 01:11:40,774 --> 01:11:42,210 It was contentious. 1689 01:11:42,341 --> 01:11:44,735 It was respectful. 1690 01:11:44,865 --> 01:11:46,737 I described it as democracy in action. 1691 01:11:46,867 --> 01:11:50,610 We don't want to be here, just throwing some T-shirts 1692 01:11:50,741 --> 01:11:52,786 and think that's getting the job done. 1693 01:11:52,917 --> 01:11:54,701 REPORTER: These players decided to make a difference, 1694 01:11:54,832 --> 01:11:57,661 but what are they willing to give up to make that difference? 1695 01:11:57,791 --> 01:11:59,445 Families argue all the time. 1696 01:11:59,576 --> 01:12:00,925 I mean, everybody's got a crazy uncle. 1697 01:12:01,055 --> 01:12:02,622 It's no different, Black or white. 1698 01:12:02,753 --> 01:12:04,407 Families are-are a mess. 1699 01:12:04,537 --> 01:12:06,670 MAN: You have the opportunity to make a change 1700 01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:09,194 that you might not ever get again. 1701 01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:11,457 Don't let it go. 1702 01:12:11,588 --> 01:12:13,329 ROBERTS: One of our more senior players, 1703 01:12:13,459 --> 01:12:15,809 I love him to death, and I won't call his name-- 1704 01:12:15,940 --> 01:12:17,376 yes, I will, Udonis-- 1705 01:12:17,507 --> 01:12:20,901 being very, very, uh... candid. 1706 01:12:21,032 --> 01:12:23,513 It was a lot of over here, it was a lot of over there, 1707 01:12:23,643 --> 01:12:25,993 it was a lot of back here, it was a lot of front here. 1708 01:12:26,124 --> 01:12:28,300 It was a lot of whispering, 1709 01:12:28,431 --> 01:12:29,910 crying, whining, complaining. 1710 01:12:30,041 --> 01:12:33,436 And at the end of the day, if we're not together, 1711 01:12:33,566 --> 01:12:37,091 then what was the point of coming here? 1712 01:12:37,222 --> 01:12:39,790 Um, what was the point of any of this? 1713 01:12:39,920 --> 01:12:42,314 I love the fact that everyone wasn't together. 1714 01:12:42,445 --> 01:12:44,882 There's so many different ways you can go with this. 1715 01:12:45,012 --> 01:12:47,275 We're trying to find a mess-- like, a singular message. 1716 01:12:47,406 --> 01:12:49,147 KILLER MIKE: What am I really willing to do? 1717 01:12:49,277 --> 01:12:51,105 Because being willing to do something means 1718 01:12:51,236 --> 01:12:53,064 I have to plot, plan, strategize, 1719 01:12:53,194 --> 01:12:54,805 organize, and mobilize. 1720 01:12:54,935 --> 01:12:57,024 And that's what those players did-- stepped up. 1721 01:12:57,155 --> 01:12:58,852 What is the mission or the goal? 1722 01:12:58,983 --> 01:13:00,201 What actions are we gonna take? 1723 01:13:00,332 --> 01:13:02,073 What are our contingencies? 1724 01:13:02,203 --> 01:13:04,205 SMITH: Maybe you could go up on Capitol Hill, 1725 01:13:04,336 --> 01:13:06,991 bring lobbyists with you 1726 01:13:07,121 --> 01:13:09,515 to push for your causes to be addressed. 1727 01:13:09,646 --> 01:13:11,517 You don't pull that off if your answer is 1728 01:13:11,648 --> 01:13:13,345 to walk off the basketball court 1729 01:13:13,476 --> 01:13:16,217 and alienate the very people 1730 01:13:16,348 --> 01:13:19,220 that have the power to help you. 1731 01:13:19,351 --> 01:13:21,005 TOBIAS HARRIS: People will come at you left and right, 1732 01:13:21,135 --> 01:13:23,007 you do your homework, you talk about anything, 1733 01:13:23,137 --> 01:13:26,837 'cause at the end of the day, whatever you say anyway, 1734 01:13:26,967 --> 01:13:29,143 somebody's gonna have something to say about it. 1735 01:13:29,274 --> 01:13:32,843 REPORTER: Your reaction, sir, to the NBA protest yesterday, 1736 01:13:32,973 --> 01:13:35,367 against another shooting of a Black man by police? 1737 01:13:35,498 --> 01:13:37,891 I think people are a little tired of the NBA, 1738 01:13:38,022 --> 01:13:40,633 frankly, uh, but I don't know too much about the protest. 1739 01:13:40,764 --> 01:13:42,548 But I know their ratings have been very bad, 1740 01:13:42,679 --> 01:13:44,376 and that's too-- that's unfortunate. 1741 01:13:44,507 --> 01:13:46,509 They've become like a political organization, 1742 01:13:46,639 --> 01:13:48,249 and that's not a good thing. 1743 01:13:48,380 --> 01:13:50,034 I don't think that's a good thing for sports 1744 01:13:50,164 --> 01:13:51,731 or for the country. 1745 01:13:51,862 --> 01:13:53,211 DEANS: I'd get the phone calls 1746 01:13:53,341 --> 01:13:56,170 that come into our general hotline, uh, 1747 01:13:56,301 --> 01:14:00,218 with outraged fans saying they're burning jerseys, um, 1748 01:14:00,348 --> 01:14:02,002 and never watching basketball again 1749 01:14:02,133 --> 01:14:03,874 because it's insane for millionaire players 1750 01:14:04,004 --> 01:14:06,398 to be embracing a Marxist organization. 1751 01:14:06,529 --> 01:14:08,356 STERLING BROWN: Sports has always been vocal. 1752 01:14:08,487 --> 01:14:10,489 Now, it might have hit a gap to where, you know, 1753 01:14:10,620 --> 01:14:12,926 certain generations or whatever didn't, 1754 01:14:13,057 --> 01:14:15,929 you know, speak up as much as they, uh, should've. 1755 01:14:16,060 --> 01:14:18,454 But, you know, back in the day when Kareem was, you know, 1756 01:14:18,584 --> 01:14:20,673 still young, and you seen it with Muhammad Ali, 1757 01:14:20,804 --> 01:14:22,458 and a lot of guys, they were vocal 1758 01:14:22,588 --> 01:14:24,416 on these social justice issues 1759 01:14:24,547 --> 01:14:26,853 and, you know, just the Black everyday life issues. 1760 01:14:26,984 --> 01:14:28,855 [ bell clanging ] 1761 01:14:28,986 --> 01:14:32,163 ANNOUNCER: Oh, he's down from that right hand! 1762 01:14:32,293 --> 01:14:34,513 I don't know if he's gonna make this one. 1763 01:14:34,644 --> 01:14:38,082 MAN: He used to be named Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. 1764 01:14:38,212 --> 01:14:40,432 And his business was prizefighting. 1765 01:14:40,563 --> 01:14:41,955 As a fighter, he became, in my opinion 1766 01:14:42,086 --> 01:14:43,217 and certainly in his own, 1767 01:14:43,348 --> 01:14:45,219 the greatest. 1768 01:14:45,350 --> 01:14:48,614 At the age of 25 now, he calls himself Muhammad Ali, 1769 01:14:48,745 --> 01:14:50,398 and he's unemployed as a fighter. 1770 01:14:50,529 --> 01:14:52,226 His title is gone, ripped away by various 1771 01:14:52,357 --> 01:14:55,229 boxing commissions, in the name of patriotism. 1772 01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:59,799 There have been many questions put to me 1773 01:14:59,930 --> 01:15:03,977 why I refuse to be inducted 1774 01:15:04,108 --> 01:15:07,459 into the United States Army. 1775 01:15:07,590 --> 01:15:09,505 He lost the sport he loved to keep fighting 1776 01:15:09,635 --> 01:15:11,463 for not just himself but fighting 1777 01:15:11,594 --> 01:15:13,117 for the people who don't have voices. 1778 01:15:13,247 --> 01:15:14,684 When one man of popularity 1779 01:15:14,814 --> 01:15:16,729 can let the world know the problem, 1780 01:15:16,860 --> 01:15:18,949 he can-- he might lose a few dollars himself 1781 01:15:19,079 --> 01:15:20,951 telling the truth, might lose his life, 1782 01:15:21,081 --> 01:15:22,866 but he's helping millions. 1783 01:15:22,996 --> 01:15:24,824 But if I kept my mouth shut just because 1784 01:15:24,955 --> 01:15:27,305 I can make millions, and then this ain't doing nothing, 1785 01:15:27,435 --> 01:15:29,220 so I just love the freedom and the flesh and blood 1786 01:15:29,350 --> 01:15:31,178 of my people more so than I do the money. 1787 01:15:33,093 --> 01:15:35,661 IGUODALA: What'd they do to him? Shut off his voice, 1788 01:15:35,792 --> 01:15:37,620 and they've been telling us to shut up and-- and dribble 1789 01:15:37,750 --> 01:15:39,447 because they don't want to hear us talk. 1790 01:15:39,578 --> 01:15:41,188 SMITH: And you gotta recognize the fact that 1791 01:15:41,319 --> 01:15:43,626 people who are not on your side and are against you 1792 01:15:43,756 --> 01:15:45,062 and are looking to compromise everything you bring 1793 01:15:45,192 --> 01:15:46,498 to the table look at things that way. 1794 01:15:46,629 --> 01:15:48,282 They looked at it as players 1795 01:15:48,413 --> 01:15:50,067 not minding their business. They didn't get it. 1796 01:15:50,197 --> 01:15:52,765 MAN: I'm going to say something very clear 1797 01:15:52,896 --> 01:15:55,638 to all of the athletes out there. 1798 01:15:55,768 --> 01:15:59,685 We are interested in you entertaining us, period. 1799 01:15:59,816 --> 01:16:01,295 We don't care about your opinions. 1800 01:16:01,426 --> 01:16:02,775 Shut up and dribble. 1801 01:16:02,906 --> 01:16:04,995 You won't even stand up for me in America 1802 01:16:05,125 --> 01:16:06,953 for my religious beliefs, and you want me 1803 01:16:07,084 --> 01:16:08,868 to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even 1804 01:16:08,999 --> 01:16:10,653 stand up for me here at home. 1805 01:16:10,783 --> 01:16:12,045 MAN: Well, guess what, motherfucker. 1806 01:16:12,176 --> 01:16:13,830 I watched the NBA for years. 1807 01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:16,572 You won't get that goddamn money no more. I promise. 1808 01:16:16,702 --> 01:16:19,270 MAN: They're throwing balls around on a court, 1809 01:16:19,400 --> 01:16:22,229 but it's entertainment, right? 1810 01:16:22,360 --> 01:16:25,319 They're not doing anything worthwhile for the world. 1811 01:16:25,450 --> 01:16:27,278 MAN: Trying to spread a false message 1812 01:16:27,408 --> 01:16:29,889 about police brutality. 1813 01:16:30,020 --> 01:16:31,630 Black people are not getting hunted 1814 01:16:31,761 --> 01:16:33,414 by the police in this country. 1815 01:16:33,545 --> 01:16:35,199 TUCKER CARLSON: People go to sports as a refuge 1816 01:16:35,329 --> 01:16:37,027 from things like politics, 1817 01:16:37,157 --> 01:16:39,507 so why would you throw it in the face of viewers? 1818 01:16:39,638 --> 01:16:41,814 Like, what is the point of that? 1819 01:16:41,945 --> 01:16:45,296 MAN: They have made it clear to us that they hate this country. 1820 01:16:45,426 --> 01:16:47,428 Suppose every American-- Mr. Brown, suppose 1821 01:16:47,559 --> 01:16:49,648 every American had decided 1822 01:16:49,779 --> 01:16:51,302 that they were not gonna put on the uniform 1823 01:16:51,432 --> 01:16:53,826 of their country and not fight for us. 1824 01:16:53,957 --> 01:16:56,437 DEANS: You know, everyone-- especially every Black person-- 1825 01:16:56,568 --> 01:16:58,831 knows that every time you expose your pain, 1826 01:16:58,962 --> 01:17:00,528 that comes at a cost, too. 1827 01:17:00,659 --> 01:17:02,226 Obviously, America is a terrible, horrible place 1828 01:17:02,356 --> 01:17:03,793 where you get to earn millions of dollars for playing 1829 01:17:03,923 --> 01:17:05,490 -a child's game. -How are you doing? 1830 01:17:05,621 --> 01:17:07,448 SHAPIRO: In front of adoring audiences. 1831 01:17:07,579 --> 01:17:09,102 WOMAN: He's un-American, and he doesn't deserve 1832 01:17:09,233 --> 01:17:10,626 to be in our country. 1833 01:17:10,756 --> 01:17:12,149 -All white-- all lives matter. -So that's-- 1834 01:17:12,279 --> 01:17:14,412 he's really a sad, pathetic person. 1835 01:17:14,542 --> 01:17:16,588 MAN: I find nothing amusing or interesting 1836 01:17:16,719 --> 01:17:18,590 or tolerable about this man. 1837 01:17:18,721 --> 01:17:21,114 He's a simplistic fool and a pawn. 1838 01:17:21,245 --> 01:17:24,074 He's a disgrace to his country, his race, 1839 01:17:24,204 --> 01:17:26,598 and what he laughingly describes as his profession. 1840 01:17:31,342 --> 01:17:34,432 REPORTER: Michael Jordan, the only Black majority owner 1841 01:17:34,562 --> 01:17:37,043 in the NBA, has become a type of peace broker, 1842 01:17:37,174 --> 01:17:40,177 a voice of reason between players and team ownership. 1843 01:17:40,307 --> 01:17:42,527 He's urging other owners to listen. 1844 01:17:42,658 --> 01:17:44,398 KLEMPNER: It's a one-word answer 1845 01:17:44,529 --> 01:17:47,575 that Chris and Andre are looking for. 1846 01:17:47,706 --> 01:17:49,316 All right? You're coming out of this huddle, 1847 01:17:49,447 --> 01:17:52,015 and you're either in or you're out. 1848 01:17:52,145 --> 01:17:54,408 I was told that the Lakers, the Clippers, 1849 01:17:54,539 --> 01:17:57,063 they were willing to end the season. 1850 01:17:57,194 --> 01:18:00,719 ROBERTS: LeBron left, and his people left with him. 1851 01:18:00,850 --> 01:18:04,941 To make a decision of that type of magnitude 1852 01:18:05,071 --> 01:18:08,771 in about five or six hours is damn near impossible. 1853 01:18:08,901 --> 01:18:11,208 We're not playing until we get these benchmarks, 1854 01:18:11,338 --> 01:18:13,340 uh, accomplished. 1855 01:18:13,471 --> 01:18:15,125 But it-- even at that moment, 1856 01:18:15,255 --> 01:18:17,388 I could tell this was not the end. 1857 01:18:17,518 --> 01:18:18,911 REPORTER: ...a board of governors meeting 1858 01:18:19,042 --> 01:18:21,218 set for 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, 1859 01:18:21,348 --> 01:18:24,003 to get the owners talking and trying to-- 1860 01:18:24,134 --> 01:18:26,353 trying to figure out a way, is there-- 1861 01:18:26,484 --> 01:18:29,792 Can we still salvage this season and move forward? 1862 01:18:34,492 --> 01:18:37,538 ♪ 1863 01:18:44,154 --> 01:18:46,025 KLEMPNER: The next day, they got together. 1864 01:18:47,548 --> 01:18:49,028 And there was a plan. 1865 01:18:53,946 --> 01:18:56,688 RIVERS: You saw raw emotion at the top, 1866 01:18:56,819 --> 01:18:58,951 at the beginning, and then 1867 01:18:59,082 --> 01:19:01,258 all of a sudden, there was a calm. 1868 01:19:01,388 --> 01:19:02,955 But whatever we do, 1869 01:19:03,086 --> 01:19:05,697 we gonna be together, just know that. 1870 01:19:05,828 --> 01:19:08,265 ROBERTS: Then Chris and Andre announced... 1871 01:19:08,395 --> 01:19:10,441 We can have just as much leverage doing both, 1872 01:19:10,571 --> 01:19:12,138 you know, playing and speaking. 1873 01:19:12,269 --> 01:19:14,184 And are we all gonna play? 1874 01:19:14,314 --> 01:19:16,186 And Chris and Andre said, 1875 01:19:16,316 --> 01:19:19,276 "Yes, we are. We are all going to play." 1876 01:19:19,406 --> 01:19:22,670 And everyone looked over at the Lakers and... 1877 01:19:25,848 --> 01:19:27,632 ...we all played. 1878 01:19:27,763 --> 01:19:29,721 If we're really gonna make a statement here, 1879 01:19:29,852 --> 01:19:31,549 if we're really gonna say we're fed up 1880 01:19:31,679 --> 01:19:33,594 about what's happening in our country, 1881 01:19:33,725 --> 01:19:35,248 if we're really gonna say we're not gonna be 1882 01:19:35,379 --> 01:19:37,033 your form of entertainment, 1883 01:19:37,163 --> 01:19:39,165 then you gotta stop playing basketball, period. 1884 01:19:39,296 --> 01:19:41,167 BEN SHAPIRO: ...that every time I turn on a basketball game, 1885 01:19:41,298 --> 01:19:42,865 I have to get a political commentary 1886 01:19:42,995 --> 01:19:45,215 from somebody who's spent five minutes studying the issue. 1887 01:19:45,345 --> 01:19:46,738 COMMENTATOR: You know, everybody in the Black community 1888 01:19:46,869 --> 01:19:48,131 was not proud with Muhammad Ali. 1889 01:19:48,261 --> 01:19:50,742 Because they said, hold on, wait a minute, bro, 1890 01:19:50,873 --> 01:19:52,309 oh, just 'cause you can box? 1891 01:19:52,439 --> 01:19:54,050 I had to go over there. 1892 01:19:54,180 --> 01:19:56,269 They drafted me. What makes you better than me? 1893 01:19:56,400 --> 01:19:58,228 MAN: For these guys to be in the bubble, 1894 01:19:58,358 --> 01:20:00,056 taken away from their kids, their family, 1895 01:20:00,186 --> 01:20:01,753 and then also looked to to change the world. 1896 01:20:01,884 --> 01:20:04,103 It's never gonna be as simple as, if we stop playing, 1897 01:20:04,234 --> 01:20:05,931 they're gonna stop killing us. It's not that. 1898 01:20:09,152 --> 01:20:11,328 ♪ 1899 01:20:18,074 --> 01:20:20,250 WIDMAN: So... great. 1900 01:20:20,380 --> 01:20:22,556 When I seen it, I was really proud of them. 1901 01:20:22,687 --> 01:20:24,994 But I-I'm like-- 1902 01:20:25,124 --> 01:20:27,213 I was like, cool. 1903 01:20:27,344 --> 01:20:29,172 This is good. It's a good start. 1904 01:20:29,302 --> 01:20:30,826 But how long is it gonna last? 1905 01:20:35,308 --> 01:20:38,964 SMITH: If you don't do something exactly the way 1906 01:20:39,095 --> 01:20:42,925 folks think you should do it, 1907 01:20:43,055 --> 01:20:45,797 they measure your approach 1908 01:20:45,928 --> 01:20:48,452 before they even know the results. 1909 01:20:48,582 --> 01:20:50,758 PAUL: We didn't want to just have one moment thing 1910 01:20:50,889 --> 01:20:52,499 and then everything just go away. 1911 01:20:52,630 --> 01:20:55,024 We talked about it. We said, if we are gonna go play, 1912 01:20:55,154 --> 01:20:57,548 then it has to be bigger than a game. 1913 01:20:57,678 --> 01:21:01,595 KLEMPNER: The players decided that we were going to present 1914 01:21:01,726 --> 01:21:03,249 short-term and long-term initiatives. 1915 01:21:03,380 --> 01:21:05,121 We had to show that we were making 1916 01:21:05,251 --> 01:21:07,384 a real immediate impact 1917 01:21:07,514 --> 01:21:11,040 and also that there would be some lasting change. 1918 01:21:11,170 --> 01:21:12,998 REPORTER: We continue to follow news from the NBA 1919 01:21:13,129 --> 01:21:14,957 after players boycotted playoff games 1920 01:21:15,087 --> 01:21:16,523 over the police shooting of Jacob Blake. 1921 01:21:16,654 --> 01:21:18,351 The league now agreeing to work with them 1922 01:21:18,482 --> 01:21:20,832 on social reforms; basketball arenas will be 1923 01:21:20,963 --> 01:21:22,616 converted into voting locations 1924 01:21:22,747 --> 01:21:25,750 to allow for safe, in-person voting on Election Day. 1925 01:21:25,881 --> 01:21:28,100 We started our Social Justice Coalition, right? 1926 01:21:28,231 --> 01:21:29,797 Which is more powerful than any name 1927 01:21:29,928 --> 01:21:31,669 on any jersey will ever be. 1928 01:21:31,799 --> 01:21:33,366 REPORTER: Focusing on civic engagement 1929 01:21:33,497 --> 01:21:35,238 and police and criminal justice reform. 1930 01:21:35,368 --> 01:21:37,066 2nd REPORTER: ...while the league will also promote 1931 01:21:37,196 --> 01:21:39,285 voting information through advertising during the playoffs. 1932 01:21:39,416 --> 01:21:41,287 MAN: A lot of people are saying this is not 1933 01:21:41,418 --> 01:21:42,941 a moment, this is a movement. 1934 01:21:43,072 --> 01:21:44,856 Back on the court, but with a promise. 1935 01:21:44,987 --> 01:21:46,553 CADOGAN: Our criminal justice complex needs reform, 1936 01:21:46,684 --> 01:21:48,251 but how can the NBA be involved from a policy standpoint? 1937 01:21:48,381 --> 01:21:50,035 3rd REPORTER: ...calling on the U.S. Senate 1938 01:21:50,166 --> 01:21:54,126 to finally pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. 1939 01:21:54,257 --> 01:21:56,041 MALCOLM BROGDON: The players specifically had the leverage 1940 01:21:56,172 --> 01:21:57,738 to have pushed for legislation 1941 01:21:57,869 --> 01:21:59,392 on the local, state, and federal level. 1942 01:21:59,523 --> 01:22:01,003 I wish we-- we could have 1943 01:22:01,133 --> 01:22:02,918 dove a little bit deeper in, but that, you know, 1944 01:22:03,048 --> 01:22:04,615 we-we are where we are. 1945 01:22:04,745 --> 01:22:06,834 Players are doing their part, but they said 1946 01:22:06,965 --> 01:22:09,359 in a letter to Adam Silver that it should not be 1947 01:22:09,489 --> 01:22:12,057 the sole responsibility of the Black people, 1948 01:22:12,188 --> 01:22:14,016 the Black players that are hurting, 1949 01:22:14,146 --> 01:22:16,061 to be the voices of this. 1950 01:22:16,192 --> 01:22:18,281 People pass a lot of judgment about what we should do 1951 01:22:18,411 --> 01:22:19,847 or what we shouldn't do. 1952 01:22:19,978 --> 01:22:21,937 But I give our guys a lot of credit, 1953 01:22:22,067 --> 01:22:23,895 because they've been doing a hell of a job. 1954 01:22:24,026 --> 01:22:26,071 A hell of a job down here performing 1955 01:22:26,202 --> 01:22:28,160 and speaking on the different social injustice 1956 01:22:28,291 --> 01:22:29,814 that's going on day in and day out 1957 01:22:29,945 --> 01:22:32,904 while trying to be, uh, a great athlete, 1958 01:22:33,035 --> 01:22:34,688 while trying to be a great husband, 1959 01:22:34,819 --> 01:22:36,560 while trying to be a great father. 1960 01:22:38,605 --> 01:22:41,086 SPEARS: Felt like these dudes was trying to solve the world's problems 1961 01:22:41,217 --> 01:22:44,089 and-- and put the whole weight on the world on their back, 1962 01:22:44,220 --> 01:22:46,613 and that's not possible, man. 1963 01:22:46,744 --> 01:22:48,528 They're not gonna solve the world, 1964 01:22:48,659 --> 01:22:51,662 but you could incrementally make it a better place. 1965 01:22:51,792 --> 01:22:53,533 There's always more you can be doing, 1966 01:22:53,664 --> 01:22:56,449 but if everyone does a little, no one has to do a lot. 1967 01:23:03,195 --> 01:23:05,545 McGEE: I'm literally about to take a nap, 1968 01:23:05,676 --> 01:23:07,808 and I forgot... 1969 01:23:07,939 --> 01:23:09,985 I gotta take a COVID test, man. 1970 01:23:11,377 --> 01:23:13,989 [ sighing ] 1971 01:23:14,119 --> 01:23:15,773 Goddamn. 1972 01:23:15,903 --> 01:23:18,689 -[ chiming ] -[ distant chatter ] 1973 01:23:21,344 --> 01:23:24,651 -Perfect. I'm sorry. -[ laughing ] 1974 01:23:24,782 --> 01:23:26,001 Goddamn. 1975 01:23:26,131 --> 01:23:28,090 Waking up every morning realizing, 1976 01:23:28,220 --> 01:23:30,483 oh, you're still here. 1977 01:23:30,614 --> 01:23:33,356 It takes me about 15 minutes to say, okay, stop it. 1978 01:23:33,486 --> 01:23:36,620 You know, you got your health, you're good, you know, get up. 1979 01:23:36,750 --> 01:23:40,189 That first ten minutes is like, is this ever gonna end? 1980 01:23:40,319 --> 01:23:43,366 I just-- I just need to get the hell out of here. 1981 01:23:43,496 --> 01:23:44,889 REPORTER: Can you talk about what you meant 1982 01:23:45,020 --> 01:23:46,369 by being in a dark place? 1983 01:23:46,499 --> 01:23:48,023 It was just a little bit of everything. 1984 01:23:48,153 --> 01:23:50,938 Um... you know, I... 1985 01:23:51,069 --> 01:23:53,898 underestimated mental health, honestly. 1986 01:23:54,029 --> 01:23:56,031 I definitely take a-a call once a week 1987 01:23:56,161 --> 01:23:57,597 with my, uh, with my therapist now. 1988 01:23:57,728 --> 01:23:59,599 And, um, you know, sometimes there's really 1989 01:23:59,730 --> 01:24:01,166 nothing to talk about 'cause there's not much going on, 1990 01:24:01,297 --> 01:24:03,125 but it's still just an opportunity, 1991 01:24:03,255 --> 01:24:04,735 um, to have an outlet. 1992 01:24:04,865 --> 01:24:06,650 How does this thing work? 1993 01:24:06,780 --> 01:24:09,044 Oh, there we go. 1994 01:24:10,349 --> 01:24:12,177 My dad sent selfies! [ laughing ] 1995 01:24:12,308 --> 01:24:14,353 Of himself! 1996 01:24:14,484 --> 01:24:15,833 THYBULLE: For a lot of people, for myself especially, 1997 01:24:15,963 --> 01:24:17,052 through the pandemic 1998 01:24:17,182 --> 01:24:18,836 and the isolation of everything, 1999 01:24:18,966 --> 01:24:21,012 the thing that helped me the most get through it 2000 01:24:21,143 --> 01:24:23,362 was having family, even if it was distance. 2001 01:24:23,493 --> 01:24:25,625 [ over phone ] I was texting the whole family! 2002 01:24:25,756 --> 01:24:27,758 I'm talking the entire Thybulle clan, man! 2003 01:24:27,888 --> 01:24:30,108 -[ laughing ] -My phone is buzzing! 2004 01:24:30,282 --> 01:24:34,982 ALL: ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪♪♪ 2005 01:24:35,113 --> 01:24:38,812 -[ cheering ] -And many more! 2006 01:24:38,943 --> 01:24:40,771 My fiancée, we should have been married in June, 2007 01:24:40,901 --> 01:24:42,164 but that got pushed back. 2008 01:24:42,294 --> 01:24:45,297 Now, I got my-- my first kid on the way. 2009 01:24:45,428 --> 01:24:47,299 So, any day now and any-any-- 2010 01:24:47,430 --> 01:24:48,996 any hour now, I might get a call. 2011 01:24:49,127 --> 01:24:50,650 A lot of friends were like, well, 2012 01:24:50,781 --> 01:24:54,437 this is not a great time to have a-- to have a baby. 2013 01:24:54,567 --> 01:24:56,613 And I was like, you know, I'm always gonna 2014 01:24:56,743 --> 01:24:59,137 remember my first baby was born in a-- 2015 01:24:59,268 --> 01:25:01,139 a world pandemic. 2016 01:25:01,270 --> 01:25:04,664 McGEE: Some people have come to visit. 2017 01:25:04,795 --> 01:25:07,145 I wonder who it could be. 2018 01:25:08,668 --> 01:25:11,410 Oh, there she is! 2019 01:25:11,541 --> 01:25:13,282 Hello, Gigi. 2020 01:25:13,412 --> 01:25:15,240 -Again! -You want to go again? 2021 01:25:15,371 --> 01:25:17,068 -Yeah. -Go ahead. 2022 01:25:17,199 --> 01:25:19,114 She's growing so fast, 2023 01:25:19,244 --> 01:25:20,680 so I-I did miss, like, at least 2024 01:25:20,811 --> 01:25:22,508 an inch and a half of her growth. 2025 01:25:22,639 --> 01:25:25,294 You got your hair braided-- you got your hair braided, girl? 2026 01:25:25,424 --> 01:25:27,687 -Yeah. -Yeah, I gotta have a kiss. 2027 01:25:27,818 --> 01:25:30,081 Okay, mwah. 2028 01:25:30,212 --> 01:25:32,039 You just definitely can't take it for granted. 2029 01:25:34,433 --> 01:25:37,219 The more we win, the longer we stay, uh, but it's all 2030 01:25:37,349 --> 01:25:38,829 worth it in the end because the-- 2031 01:25:38,959 --> 01:25:40,744 it's an unbelievably satisfying feeling 2032 01:25:40,874 --> 01:25:42,833 to be able to be successful 2033 01:25:42,963 --> 01:25:44,530 and to be able to provide for your family, 2034 01:25:44,661 --> 01:25:45,966 do things for your family. 2035 01:25:46,097 --> 01:25:47,446 -There she is. -Hey. 2036 01:25:47,577 --> 01:25:49,405 My lovely new fiancée. 2037 01:25:49,535 --> 01:25:50,928 There's still a long ways to go, but we've come 2038 01:25:51,058 --> 01:25:52,712 a long ways since before I was born 2039 01:25:52,843 --> 01:25:54,323 to here now, and I've been lucky, 2040 01:25:54,453 --> 01:25:55,976 and I'm blessed to be a part of this 2041 01:25:56,107 --> 01:25:57,500 and be able to play and have the freedoms 2042 01:25:57,630 --> 01:25:59,197 I have now because of the people before me. 2043 01:25:59,328 --> 01:26:00,633 So I'm just trying to embrace that and trying 2044 01:26:00,764 --> 01:26:02,461 to do the same thing for my future 2045 01:26:02,592 --> 01:26:04,420 generation of kids, of grandkids, great-grandkids. 2046 01:26:04,550 --> 01:26:07,205 I mean, it's a sacrifice, but so many more people 2047 01:26:07,336 --> 01:26:09,903 have had to sacrifice so much more, uh, during this crisis. 2048 01:26:10,034 --> 01:26:12,602 We are so close to the end, but some of the players-- 2049 01:26:12,732 --> 01:26:14,952 I mean, even when they have disappointing losses 2050 01:26:15,082 --> 01:26:16,954 in... in their games, 2051 01:26:17,084 --> 01:26:18,825 the first thing they'll say is, "At least I can go home." 2052 01:26:18,956 --> 01:26:20,958 Ready to go home? Happy to go home? 2053 01:26:21,088 --> 01:26:23,787 Little bit happy to go home, be back in my own bed. 2054 01:26:23,917 --> 01:26:25,571 At least I can go home. 2055 01:26:26,616 --> 01:26:27,878 Playoff time. 2056 01:26:28,008 --> 01:26:30,054 Win on three! One, two, three, win! 2057 01:26:30,185 --> 01:26:32,883 COMMENTATOR: And we are underway in the Orlando bubble. 2058 01:26:33,013 --> 01:26:36,843 Jamal Murray with a stroke of genius! 2059 01:26:36,974 --> 01:26:39,019 -[ buzzer ] -That'll do it. 2060 01:26:39,150 --> 01:26:42,936 The Boston Celtics move on by defeating the 76ers. 2061 01:26:43,067 --> 01:26:44,590 Back to Philly we go. 2062 01:26:45,809 --> 01:26:47,245 COMMENTATOR: They still need to score 2063 01:26:47,376 --> 01:26:48,942 even if Gallinari makes the bucket here-- 2064 01:26:49,073 --> 01:26:50,988 And ball game over! 2065 01:26:51,162 --> 01:26:52,946 ♪ Just a trick to smell her scent and try to sneak a touch ♪ 2066 01:26:53,120 --> 01:26:55,862 ♪ Oh, how I wish I could hold her hand... ♪ 2067 01:26:55,993 --> 01:26:57,560 Missed the layup! Gobert got it! 2068 01:26:57,690 --> 01:26:59,257 Mitchell hanging at the other end! 2069 01:26:59,388 --> 01:27:02,304 Two seconds to go! They were that close. 2070 01:27:02,434 --> 01:27:04,784 ANNOUNCER: Utah, 78! 2071 01:27:04,915 --> 01:27:06,830 Nuggets, 80! 2072 01:27:08,266 --> 01:27:10,790 Everybody leaving, huh? Is that it? They leaving? 2073 01:27:10,921 --> 01:27:12,531 COMMENTATOR: As the Boston Celtics 2074 01:27:12,662 --> 01:27:14,272 will now leave the bubble. 2075 01:27:14,403 --> 01:27:15,969 All right. 2076 01:27:17,536 --> 01:27:19,190 -[ buzzer ] -COMMENTATOR: The best team 2077 01:27:19,321 --> 01:27:22,062 in the NBA, the Milwaukee Bucks, lose! 2078 01:27:22,193 --> 01:27:24,804 So long from Orlando! 2079 01:27:24,978 --> 01:27:27,198 ♪ She keeps on passin' me by... ♪ 2080 01:27:27,329 --> 01:27:29,461 COMMENTATOR: Trying to disrupt Rondo, he puts it in. 2081 01:27:29,592 --> 01:27:30,941 Here's Davis, for three and the win. 2082 01:27:31,071 --> 01:27:32,725 Oh, it's good! 2083 01:27:32,856 --> 01:27:36,512 The Lakers are headed back to the NBA Finals. 2084 01:27:36,642 --> 01:27:41,212 We are the last ones in the bubble. That's crazy. 2085 01:27:43,736 --> 01:27:45,477 I don't know. I think I was pretty lucky 2086 01:27:45,608 --> 01:27:47,392 to enter the league when I did. 2087 01:27:47,523 --> 01:27:51,222 Even though there were so many bad things happening 2088 01:27:51,353 --> 01:27:53,311 between the pandemic and the riots 2089 01:27:53,442 --> 01:27:54,921 and the protests. 2090 01:27:55,052 --> 01:27:58,490 And to now be a part of the NBA 2091 01:27:58,621 --> 01:28:00,840 that embodied so much more than basketball, 2092 01:28:00,971 --> 01:28:02,929 I think it's gonna be a huge part 2093 01:28:03,060 --> 01:28:05,715 of how I consider my legacy 2094 01:28:05,845 --> 01:28:07,760 or my mark on this game. 2095 01:28:07,891 --> 01:28:12,591 And to just be a part of the good that came of it. 2096 01:28:13,636 --> 01:28:16,595 [ laughing ] 2097 01:28:16,726 --> 01:28:18,989 -This is too much. -[ laughter ] 2098 01:28:20,338 --> 01:28:21,644 My God, you got... 2099 01:28:21,774 --> 01:28:23,080 This is your home, man, 2100 01:28:23,210 --> 01:28:24,951 this is where you belong, this is it. 2101 01:28:25,082 --> 01:28:27,693 There's no-- I've gotta go cancel all my plans. 2102 01:28:29,608 --> 01:28:32,785 THYBULLE: It's entirely too early to be thinking about this 2103 01:28:32,916 --> 01:28:35,614 or even trying to talk about it, but it just feels like 2104 01:28:35,745 --> 01:28:39,575 I need to be doing something that's contributing to help, 2105 01:28:39,705 --> 01:28:42,186 not just contributing to distract and entertain. 2106 01:28:43,187 --> 01:28:45,232 Oh, and quick question. 2107 01:28:47,191 --> 01:28:48,671 Are you registered to vote yet? 2108 01:28:50,325 --> 01:28:53,545 RIVERS: The moment we leave this bubble, we have a month 2109 01:28:53,676 --> 01:28:55,939 before the election, less than a month. 2110 01:28:56,069 --> 01:28:57,897 We got the polling stations open, 2111 01:28:58,028 --> 01:29:00,422 but our players have to go out to these polls. 2112 01:29:00,552 --> 01:29:02,424 This is one of those states that's a turning state. 2113 01:29:02,554 --> 01:29:04,251 Um, this can make or break the election. 2114 01:29:04,382 --> 01:29:06,558 REPORTER: One of their goals was to increase access 2115 01:29:06,689 --> 01:29:08,908 to voting locations during the pandemic. 2116 01:29:09,039 --> 01:29:11,215 Pro sports team owners agreed. 2117 01:29:11,346 --> 01:29:12,782 HANNAH-JONES: Forcing these owners 2118 01:29:12,912 --> 01:29:14,740 to become part of their communities and saying, 2119 01:29:14,871 --> 01:29:17,526 you're gonna open up these stadiums, uh, for voting. 2120 01:29:17,656 --> 01:29:19,397 We're not gonna see those long lines of people 2121 01:29:19,528 --> 01:29:21,486 not able to vote in the middle of COVID. 2122 01:29:21,617 --> 01:29:23,967 That type of activism did bear fruit. 2123 01:29:24,097 --> 01:29:26,143 Something we've never seen before, which was 2124 01:29:26,273 --> 01:29:28,972 allowed a lot of people who had never voted to vote. 2125 01:29:29,102 --> 01:29:31,061 You know, we knew how important that election was. 2126 01:29:31,191 --> 01:29:32,802 Um, obviously. 2127 01:29:32,932 --> 01:29:36,893 We want all voting to stop. 2128 01:29:37,023 --> 01:29:39,112 We don't want them to find any ballots 2129 01:29:39,243 --> 01:29:41,158 at 4:00 in the morning. 2130 01:29:41,288 --> 01:29:43,639 Americans already casting ballots in record numbers. 2131 01:29:43,769 --> 01:29:47,338 REPORTER: 70% of all the votes cast in 2016. 2132 01:29:47,469 --> 01:29:49,253 Big turnout from Black voters. 2133 01:29:49,384 --> 01:29:51,298 REPORTER: The voter turnout expected to break records. 2134 01:29:51,429 --> 01:29:53,562 Stop the count! Stop the count! 2135 01:29:53,692 --> 01:29:55,302 Stop the count! 2136 01:30:06,270 --> 01:30:08,228 [ electric razor buzzing ] 2137 01:30:08,359 --> 01:30:09,752 McGEE: Coach? 2138 01:30:09,882 --> 01:30:11,580 -What up, 'Vale? -I see you getting clean. 2139 01:30:11,710 --> 01:30:14,234 Oh, you know you gotta get fresh for that national TV. 2140 01:30:14,365 --> 01:30:16,802 That's true. That's true. 2141 01:30:16,933 --> 01:30:18,413 Dad, you strong. 2142 01:30:18,543 --> 01:30:19,588 Am I strong enough? 2143 01:30:19,718 --> 01:30:20,980 Yeah. 2144 01:30:21,111 --> 01:30:21,981 Who's the strongest man in the world? 2145 01:30:22,112 --> 01:30:23,330 You. 2146 01:30:23,461 --> 01:30:24,984 Okay, just making sure you know. 2147 01:30:25,115 --> 01:30:27,509 We've been locked in all season on one goal. 2148 01:30:27,639 --> 01:30:30,033 And we knew what we needed to do. 2149 01:30:30,163 --> 01:30:32,252 Uh, they know that what they're a part of 2150 01:30:32,383 --> 01:30:33,819 is something really historic, 2151 01:30:33,950 --> 01:30:35,995 and if they can successfully finish this, 2152 01:30:36,126 --> 01:30:37,649 right, if they can finish this, 2153 01:30:37,780 --> 01:30:39,825 who doesn't want to be a part of that? 2154 01:30:39,956 --> 01:30:41,827 MAN: Need to go, guys, need to go. 2155 01:30:41,958 --> 01:30:43,176 Bring it in. 2156 01:30:43,307 --> 01:30:45,178 Mamba on three-- one, two, three. 2157 01:30:45,309 --> 01:30:47,311 ALL: Mamba! 2158 01:30:47,442 --> 01:30:49,879 [ distant audience cheering ] 2159 01:30:50,053 --> 01:30:51,881 ♪ 2160 01:30:55,145 --> 01:30:57,669 SMITH: From the moment they arrived in the bubble, 2161 01:30:57,800 --> 01:31:00,324 over the course of 96 days, 2162 01:31:00,455 --> 01:31:03,327 not to have a single positive test-- 2163 01:31:03,458 --> 01:31:07,244 what they pulled off, I think it saved sports. 2164 01:31:07,374 --> 01:31:09,202 Saved it. 2165 01:31:09,333 --> 01:31:12,075 Overall-- not just the league itself, all of sports. 2166 01:31:12,205 --> 01:31:13,729 [ buzzer ] 2167 01:31:13,859 --> 01:31:15,165 COMMENTATOR: And that's it, it's over. 2168 01:31:15,295 --> 01:31:17,820 This historic 2020 NBA championship 2169 01:31:17,950 --> 01:31:20,518 belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers. 2170 01:31:20,649 --> 01:31:22,781 The Lakers conquer the bubble, 2171 01:31:22,912 --> 01:31:24,391 and banner number 17... 2172 01:31:24,522 --> 01:31:25,915 LeBRON JAMES: As the NBA, as the NBPA, 2173 01:31:26,045 --> 01:31:27,830 all our players, everybody had a voice 2174 01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:29,788 on what's going on in America. 2175 01:31:29,919 --> 01:31:32,269 So, uh, we know we want to... we all want to see better days. 2176 01:31:32,399 --> 01:31:35,315 Um, and when we leave here, we gotta continue to push that. 2177 01:31:35,446 --> 01:31:36,795 Yeah! 2178 01:31:36,926 --> 01:31:38,188 Yeah! Yeah! 2179 01:31:38,318 --> 01:31:40,973 -Yeah! -Purple and gold! Yeah! 2180 01:31:41,104 --> 01:31:42,584 [ cheering ] 2181 01:31:42,714 --> 01:31:44,411 Four! Don't talk to me-- close the door over here, 2182 01:31:44,542 --> 01:31:46,065 man, because I'm about to get noisy... 2183 01:31:46,196 --> 01:31:49,199 [ cheering ] 2184 01:31:49,329 --> 01:31:51,941 [ fans chanting ] 2185 01:31:54,552 --> 01:31:56,859 [ fireworks booming ] 2186 01:31:59,078 --> 01:32:02,299 MAN: Yeah! Let's go! 2187 01:32:02,429 --> 01:32:04,693 [ sighing ] 2188 01:32:04,823 --> 01:32:06,608 2020. 2189 01:32:09,349 --> 01:32:11,569 Something good in 2020. 2190 01:32:11,700 --> 01:32:14,616 I'm gonna low-key miss it, though. 2191 01:32:14,746 --> 01:32:16,356 It's a weird thing to say. 2192 01:32:16,487 --> 01:32:18,315 I hated it, I hated the bubble, 2193 01:32:18,445 --> 01:32:20,752 but I'm gonna miss it. 2194 01:32:20,883 --> 01:32:24,364 It's part of the story, man. Crazy, man. 2195 01:32:24,495 --> 01:32:26,062 True blessings. 2196 01:32:26,192 --> 01:32:28,717 We're going home. 2197 01:32:28,847 --> 01:32:30,588 Uh, you know, we're going home. 2198 01:32:30,719 --> 01:32:32,068 REPORTER: There are the Lakers, 2199 01:32:32,198 --> 01:32:33,852 coming down the steps. 2200 01:32:33,983 --> 01:32:35,593 [ overlapping voices ] 2201 01:32:35,724 --> 01:32:38,857 We free! We free! 2202 01:32:40,032 --> 01:32:41,556 SPEARS: I'm sure they're fatigued. 2203 01:32:41,686 --> 01:32:43,296 I-I know they're tired. They want to go home. 2204 01:32:43,427 --> 01:32:45,777 They want to be around their family, their kids, 2205 01:32:45,908 --> 01:32:48,650 their homeys, everybody, and try to get back to normal, 2206 01:32:48,780 --> 01:32:53,045 but I hope they don't leave the fight in the bubble. 2207 01:32:58,050 --> 01:33:00,096 [ helicopter whirring ] 2208 01:33:03,099 --> 01:33:04,753 -LEADER: No justice! -CROWD: No peace! 2209 01:33:05,841 --> 01:33:07,625 -No justice! -No peace! 2210 01:33:07,756 --> 01:33:09,061 No justice! 2211 01:33:09,192 --> 01:33:10,454 -No peace! -No justice! 2212 01:33:10,585 --> 01:33:11,629 No peace! 2213 01:33:11,760 --> 01:33:12,891 No justice! 2214 01:33:13,022 --> 01:33:14,066 No peace! 2215 01:33:14,197 --> 01:33:15,459 No justice! 2216 01:33:15,590 --> 01:33:16,721 No peace! 2217 01:33:16,852 --> 01:33:18,157 -No justice! -No peace! 2218 01:33:18,288 --> 01:33:19,811 No justice! 2219 01:33:19,942 --> 01:33:21,073 No peace! 2220 01:33:21,204 --> 01:33:23,510 -No justice! -No peace! 2221 01:33:23,641 --> 01:33:25,469 REPORTER: And so, all eyes are on Minneapolis. 2222 01:33:25,600 --> 01:33:26,905 We now have... 2223 01:33:28,646 --> 01:33:30,387 AUSTIN: Accountability is something we need as people 2224 01:33:30,517 --> 01:33:33,869 to feel, uh, confident in the justice system. 2225 01:33:33,999 --> 01:33:35,305 LEADER: George Floyd! 2226 01:33:35,435 --> 01:33:36,523 -CROWD: George Floyd! -Say his name. 2227 01:33:36,654 --> 01:33:37,481 -George Floyd! -Say his name. 2228 01:33:37,612 --> 01:33:38,743 George Floyd! 2229 01:33:38,874 --> 01:33:40,353 -Say his name. -George Floyd! 2230 01:33:40,484 --> 01:33:41,703 CHAUNTYLL ALLEN: Accountability is just about 2231 01:33:41,833 --> 01:33:43,574 that one individual case. 2232 01:33:43,705 --> 01:33:47,186 Justice is when we change-- transform this whole system, 2233 01:33:47,317 --> 01:33:50,755 so that we can get democracy like everybody else. 2234 01:33:50,886 --> 01:33:52,888 Justice for all. Equality for all. 2235 01:33:53,018 --> 01:33:55,717 If we do that, we're good. 2236 01:33:55,847 --> 01:33:57,457 REPORTER: As we speak, a jury has decided 2237 01:33:57,588 --> 01:33:59,459 the fate of Derek Chauvin in his murder trial. 2238 01:33:59,590 --> 01:34:02,201 As far as the cops, we're not finna keep taking these hits 2239 01:34:02,332 --> 01:34:04,769 that they-- no, uh... no type of, you know, 2240 01:34:04,900 --> 01:34:07,076 repercussions or consequences coming their way. 2241 01:34:07,206 --> 01:34:08,120 -I am! -CROWD: I am! 2242 01:34:08,251 --> 01:34:10,296 -Somebody! I am! -Somebody! 2243 01:34:10,427 --> 01:34:13,299 MEL REEVES: Malcolm X said, if somebody stabs you 2244 01:34:13,430 --> 01:34:16,389 and you pull the knife out, he says, it's not quite justice. 2245 01:34:16,520 --> 01:34:18,827 You clean the wound, then you have justice. 2246 01:34:18,957 --> 01:34:20,524 MAN: Now we got about a couple minutes 2247 01:34:20,655 --> 01:34:22,482 before the verdict gets read, okay? 2248 01:34:22,613 --> 01:34:24,049 We gonna stick together, 2249 01:34:24,180 --> 01:34:26,138 and we ain't gonna stop until we get change. 2250 01:34:26,269 --> 01:34:27,618 JAY WEBB: And people say Derek Chauvin's on trial? 2251 01:34:27,749 --> 01:34:29,402 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. 2252 01:34:29,533 --> 01:34:32,710 The U.S. Constitution is on trial. 2253 01:34:32,841 --> 01:34:34,581 You can't even get past "We the People." 2254 01:34:34,712 --> 01:34:36,845 We need to go back to "We the People"-- 2255 01:34:36,975 --> 01:34:39,325 [ chuckling ] --and then get to the rest. 2256 01:34:39,456 --> 01:34:41,110 REPORTER: ...Derek Chauvin, and we know people are 2257 01:34:41,240 --> 01:34:43,895 waiting anxiously to hear that verdict. 2258 01:34:51,903 --> 01:34:53,644 MAN: All rise for the jury. 2259 01:35:00,825 --> 01:35:03,045 Members of the jury, I will now read the verdicts 2260 01:35:03,175 --> 01:35:04,742 as they will appear in the permanent records 2261 01:35:04,873 --> 01:35:06,352 of the Fourth Judicial District. 2262 01:35:06,483 --> 01:35:09,268 State of Minnesota, County of Hennepin, 2263 01:35:09,399 --> 01:35:11,531 District Court, Fourth Judicial District. 2264 01:35:11,662 --> 01:35:13,751 State of Minnesota, Plaintiff, versus 2265 01:35:13,882 --> 01:35:15,492 Derek Michael Chauvin, Defendant. 2266 01:35:15,622 --> 01:35:18,103 Verdict, Count One, Court File Number 2267 01:35:18,234 --> 01:35:22,194 27-CR-20-12646. 2268 01:35:23,587 --> 01:35:25,154 We, the jury, in the above-entitled matter, 2269 01:35:25,284 --> 01:35:26,329 as to Count One... 2270 01:35:26,459 --> 01:35:28,679 [ voice fading ] 2271 01:35:34,511 --> 01:35:36,556 [ indistinct chatter ] 2272 01:35:40,517 --> 01:35:43,694 -MAN: Guilty! -[ cheering ] 2273 01:35:47,306 --> 01:35:48,743 MAN: Thank you! 2274 01:35:48,873 --> 01:35:50,919 [ cheering, excited chatter ] 2275 01:35:52,572 --> 01:35:54,052 MAN: Guilty! 2276 01:35:54,183 --> 01:35:55,445 REPORTER: Guilty on all three counts. 2277 01:35:55,575 --> 01:35:56,968 Guilty, second-degree murder. 2278 01:35:57,099 --> 01:35:58,535 Guilty, third-degree murder. 2279 01:35:58,665 --> 01:36:00,276 Guilty, second-degree manslaughter. 2280 01:36:00,406 --> 01:36:02,365 You saw the former police officer there, 2281 01:36:02,495 --> 01:36:04,236 Derek Chauvin, handcuffed, 2282 01:36:04,367 --> 01:36:05,716 -he's going back into jail... -[ overlapping shouts ] 2283 01:36:05,847 --> 01:36:08,197 Guilty on all three counts. 2284 01:36:08,327 --> 01:36:12,157 CROWD: All three counts! All three counts! 2285 01:36:12,288 --> 01:36:15,726 All three counts! All three counts! 2286 01:36:15,857 --> 01:36:18,207 One down, all the rest of the bad ones to go, man. 2287 01:36:18,337 --> 01:36:21,514 -Amazing. -[ laughing ] 2288 01:36:21,645 --> 01:36:24,300 The whole world should not have to rally to get justice 2289 01:36:24,430 --> 01:36:26,476 -for one man. -[ murmurs of agreement ] 2290 01:36:26,606 --> 01:36:28,913 -But that's what happened. -Amen. 2291 01:36:29,044 --> 01:36:31,568 This wasn't a city case, this wasn't one family's case. 2292 01:36:31,698 --> 01:36:34,136 This was the entire world's case. 2293 01:36:36,442 --> 01:36:38,836 I believe in small victories, and I think that 2294 01:36:38,967 --> 01:36:41,012 we as a collective have a lot of power. 2295 01:36:41,143 --> 01:36:43,014 GARRAWAY: They didn't do the right thing 2296 01:36:43,145 --> 01:36:45,147 because it was the right thing to do. 2297 01:36:45,277 --> 01:36:47,758 Because if that was true, they would have done it 2298 01:36:47,889 --> 01:36:50,892 for the rest of our families. 2299 01:36:51,022 --> 01:36:53,503 We had to force their hand. 2300 01:36:53,633 --> 01:36:56,462 -Chauvin! Chauvin! -CROWD: Guilty! Guilty! 2301 01:36:56,593 --> 01:36:58,769 -Chauvin! -Guilty! 2302 01:36:58,900 --> 01:37:02,773 BLAKE, SR.: And we're not going and asking for anything. 2303 01:37:02,904 --> 01:37:04,514 We're demanding. 2304 01:37:04,644 --> 01:37:07,386 You know, we're not asking for our place at the table. 2305 01:37:07,517 --> 01:37:09,780 We're kicking in the door and we're sitting down. 2306 01:37:09,911 --> 01:37:11,913 Somebody gotta get up. 2307 01:37:12,043 --> 01:37:14,176 Somebody's gotta get up. 2308 01:37:14,350 --> 01:37:16,439 ♪ 2309 01:37:30,105 --> 01:37:32,020 JONES: I don't think you can dismantle 2310 01:37:32,150 --> 01:37:34,718 a 400-year system in 40 days, 2311 01:37:34,849 --> 01:37:38,983 in four years, in 40 years, right? 2312 01:37:39,114 --> 01:37:41,159 And I-- and I think it's an insult to our ancestors 2313 01:37:41,290 --> 01:37:43,466 to say that much hasn't changed. 2314 01:37:43,596 --> 01:37:45,511 Much has changed. 2315 01:37:48,427 --> 01:37:50,603 [ faint chanting ] 2316 01:37:50,734 --> 01:37:53,998 JAYLEN BROWN: In the past, there's identified leaders that we've had. 2317 01:37:55,260 --> 01:37:56,783 [ voice muffled ] 2318 01:37:56,914 --> 01:37:58,524 Our leaders had been taken from us, 2319 01:37:58,655 --> 01:38:00,439 and I think that has kind of... 2320 01:38:00,570 --> 01:38:04,748 maybe slowed movements down or stifled them. 2321 01:38:06,271 --> 01:38:08,012 You don't change a country that was founded 2322 01:38:08,143 --> 01:38:10,362 on slavery and anti-blackness overnight. 2323 01:38:10,493 --> 01:38:11,929 But certainly, if you don't have 2324 01:38:12,060 --> 01:38:15,367 high-profile people like athletes 2325 01:38:15,498 --> 01:38:17,979 bringing attention to it, it's not going to change. 2326 01:38:18,109 --> 01:38:19,937 There are other athletes and other Black leaders, 2327 01:38:20,068 --> 01:38:22,418 period, who are using their positions 2328 01:38:22,548 --> 01:38:25,769 of power and influence to wield some practical progress. 2329 01:38:25,900 --> 01:38:27,510 We are looking out for the best interests 2330 01:38:27,640 --> 01:38:29,947 of Black people as a whole in this country. 2331 01:38:30,078 --> 01:38:31,775 MAN: I look at the African American 2332 01:38:31,906 --> 01:38:33,864 being oppressed in this country, and I don't stand for that. 2333 01:38:33,995 --> 01:38:35,953 KAEPERNICK: There is a lot of things that need to change. 2334 01:38:36,084 --> 01:38:38,738 The fact that it has blown up like this, 2335 01:38:38,869 --> 01:38:40,871 I think is a good thing. 2336 01:38:41,002 --> 01:38:42,568 ANNOUNCER: ...on helping change the culture of a sport 2337 01:38:42,699 --> 01:38:44,614 and the course of our nation. 2338 01:38:44,744 --> 01:38:46,355 For his lifetime of achievement 2339 01:38:46,485 --> 01:38:48,357 and for his principled service to mankind, 2340 01:38:48,487 --> 01:38:51,795 the United States honors Muhammad Ali. 2341 01:38:51,926 --> 01:38:54,319 JAYLEN BROWN: A lot of times, the critique on today's generation 2342 01:38:54,450 --> 01:38:56,756 is there is a lack of leadership. 2343 01:38:56,887 --> 01:38:59,194 Um, in this generation, there's not really 2344 01:38:59,324 --> 01:39:02,545 too many people that you can singularly identify 2345 01:39:02,675 --> 01:39:05,896 as the leader of these movements. 2346 01:39:06,027 --> 01:39:09,247 The fact that everybody is a part of it, 2347 01:39:09,378 --> 01:39:10,988 it's harder to pinpoint 2348 01:39:11,119 --> 01:39:13,425 exactly where all this energy is coming from. 2349 01:39:13,556 --> 01:39:16,646 And I think there's some brilliance behind that. 2350 01:39:18,082 --> 01:39:20,171 RIVERS: We had some strong leaders through our generations, 2351 01:39:20,302 --> 01:39:24,523 but it was only the best players that had a microphone. 2352 01:39:24,654 --> 01:39:27,439 Now, all the players have a microphone, 2353 01:39:27,570 --> 01:39:28,919 and they're using it. 2354 01:39:29,050 --> 01:39:30,442 -No justice! -CROWD: No peace! 2355 01:39:30,573 --> 01:39:32,488 -No justice! -No peace! 2356 01:39:32,618 --> 01:39:35,708 THYBULLE: I think it shook a lot of people's idea 2357 01:39:35,839 --> 01:39:37,841 of what the NBA was, 2358 01:39:37,972 --> 01:39:40,061 what, like, entertainers are, what athletes are. 2359 01:39:40,191 --> 01:39:43,586 And I think it gave us a better sense of... 2360 01:39:43,716 --> 01:39:46,458 what we are capable of when we all kinda come together. 2361 01:39:48,112 --> 01:39:50,245 McGEE: Yeah, we're in competition once we cross those lines 2362 01:39:50,375 --> 01:39:52,029 and we get on the court. 2363 01:39:52,160 --> 01:39:53,770 But just as brothers, we all came together 2364 01:39:53,900 --> 01:39:57,426 and-and really focused on just having each other's backs. 2365 01:39:57,556 --> 01:39:59,341 I'm just glad I got to be a part of it 2366 01:39:59,471 --> 01:40:01,299 in at least a minuscule way. 2367 01:40:01,430 --> 01:40:03,519 STERLING BROWN: I had to speak up at the time. 2368 01:40:03,649 --> 01:40:04,955 Really, that's that. 2369 01:40:05,086 --> 01:40:06,435 I'm not, you know, a revolutionary 2370 01:40:06,565 --> 01:40:08,002 or nothing like that, but I am a voice 2371 01:40:08,132 --> 01:40:11,483 for the have-nots because that's where I come from. 2372 01:40:11,614 --> 01:40:13,703 PAUL: I have to try to be a part of the change. 2373 01:40:13,833 --> 01:40:15,357 Even though, if I don't get an opportunity 2374 01:40:15,487 --> 01:40:18,360 to see it fully, then my kids understand it. 2375 01:40:19,404 --> 01:40:21,015 That's the whole play. 2376 01:40:24,235 --> 01:40:26,716 ♪ 2377 01:40:35,116 --> 01:40:37,814 HANNAH-JONES: Sports is important in America 2378 01:40:37,944 --> 01:40:41,078 for the same reason that sport is important in the world. 2379 01:40:42,079 --> 01:40:44,734 It does bring people together. 2380 01:40:44,864 --> 01:40:46,562 You know, you're in the stadium, 2381 01:40:46,692 --> 01:40:48,520 and it doesn't matter what the person next to you 2382 01:40:48,651 --> 01:40:51,741 does for a living, what the person next to you's race is, 2383 01:40:51,871 --> 01:40:54,004 you're all cheering on the same side. 2384 01:40:58,878 --> 01:41:00,402 But that's a superficial unity. 2385 01:41:01,881 --> 01:41:04,623 It is not enough to sit here and cheer together. 2386 01:41:04,754 --> 01:41:06,799 Are we gonna go out of the stadium 2387 01:41:06,930 --> 01:41:09,193 and actually live together? 2388 01:41:09,367 --> 01:41:11,413 ♪ 2389 01:41:22,772 --> 01:41:25,079 JAYLEN BROWN: I am a son. 2390 01:41:26,254 --> 01:41:28,473 I am a friend. 2391 01:41:29,605 --> 01:41:31,737 I am a student. 2392 01:41:32,825 --> 01:41:35,306 And I am an activist. 2393 01:41:35,480 --> 01:41:37,526 ♪ 2394 01:42:00,244 --> 01:42:02,246 ♪ 2395 01:42:32,102 --> 01:42:34,148 ♪ 2396 01:42:56,779 --> 01:42:58,868 ♪ 2397 01:43:26,069 --> 01:43:28,158 ♪