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All members of the New York Liberty and the Seattle Storm wore jerseys with Breonna Taylor’s name stitched across the back. They held a 26-second moment of silence — Taylor’s age when she was fatally shot by Louisville police in her home in March — and dedicated the season to her memory. They walked off the court prior to the playing of the national anthem.
“We’re trying to be proactive, create different avenues to be able to continue conversations, to continue to educate guys on different issues, provide different things that we can read or things we can watch,” Anthony Toliver, America’s COVID-19 response has been worse, much worse, than anyone can reasonably expect to wrap their mind around. At least 149,000 Americans are dead, more than 4.3 million people have been infected. The grief alone is incalculable.So far that hasn’t happened. The NBA’s bubble withstood its initial test when players from all across North America made the pilgrimage to Disney World, and no cases of COVID-19 were found within the Orlando campus itself.
In a year where the unthinkable has happened more often than it hasn’t, it would be arrogant to assume knowing the ending to this experiment.
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