Although Dwight Howard voiced his very strong feelings about why he thinks to bring back the NBA in a bubble at Walt Disney World may not be the best thing for the league’s very famous and powerful players to do amid a backdrop of social unrest and nearly three weeks of constant protests throughout the country, his agent Charles Briscoe told ESPN’s Dave McMenamin that while Howard made a strong statement, that he has yet to make a decision on whether he will play or not.
“The statement was about social injustice and racism,” Briscoe said. “Yet everybody is still talking about whether basketball should be played. He isn’t saying that basketball shouldn’t be. He’s just saying that you should not be taking attention away from what’s going on in the country to talk about basketball. Basketball is just a sport, at the end of the day. But what’s going on with people dying in the streets, that’s something real. That statement, it had nothing to do with sports. It had everything to do with racism and social injustice.”
So, while on the surface the statement from Howard and Avery Bradley’s participation on the call could seemingly put them at odds with LeBron James and the Lakers, the state of the Lakers, like the future of the league, still has plenty of time to take shape.
