Lakers’ Dwight Howard Releases Statement on Sitting Out

The NBA plans to resume the season and Dwight Howard thinks of sitting it out. The Los Angeles Lakers’ player said they don’t need any basketball “till we get things resolved.” Well, this is a completely different thing.

Howard’s agent provided the statement to CNN, and the player explained his reasons to say this. Will players go to Orlando next month?

Dwight Howard joines Kyrie Irving regarding the sitting out

“I agree with Kyrie [Irving]. Basketball, or entertainment period, isn’t needed at this moment, and will only be a distraction. Sure it might not distract us, the players, but we have resources at hand [the] majority of our community don’t have. And the smallest distraction for them can start a trickle down effect that may never stop. Especially with the way the climate is now. I would love nothing more than to win my very first NBA Championship. But the unity of my people would be an even bigger championship, that’s just to (sic) beautiful to pass up.

“What better time than now for us to be focusing on our families. This is a rare opportunity that, I believe, we as a community should take full advantage of. When have we ever had this amount of time to sit and be with our families. This is where our unity starts. At home! With family! European colonization stripped us of our rich history, and we have yet to sit down and figure us out. The less distractions, the more we can put into action into rediscovering ourselves. Nations come out of families. Black/African American is not a nation or nationality. It’s time our families became their own nations. No basketball till we get things resolved.”

Howard and Avery Bradley joined Kyrie Irving who talked to many NBA players to discuss the potential resumption.

“I don’t support going into Orlando,” Irving told the players. “I’m not with the systematic racism and the bull—-. Something smells a little fishy. Whether we want to admit it or not, we are targeted as black men every day we wake up.”

This is a rather intricate phase, and we really don’t know anything about its future development.