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[ basketball bouncing ]
[ birds tweeting ]
MICHELE ROBERTS: Hundreds of thousands of young kids every day
dream of being an NBA player.
[ cheering and applause ]
Obviously, most of the players look like me.
Most of the players are African American.
Many of the players come from humble backgrounds,
as do I,
and all of them have had
to work really hard
and defy odds to get to where they are.
ANNOUNCER: LeBron James...
LeBRON JAMES: You know, this is
a longtime dream to finally accomplish this.
I'm shaking right now.
CHRIS PAUL: You know, if you step on my toes,
I'mma tell you about it.
ANNOUNCER: Basketball fans are
waiting to see how you're going to do.
ROBERTS: It makes me all the more protective
of what they've achieved and their power.
MARC SPEARS: I can't explain this year, man.
And, uh, you know, we used-- we used to...
I don't know how you answer that question.
It's like that, uh...
I feel like every time you turn around the corner,
you're getting punched in the face.
Nah, I ain't gonna get hit again. Bam!
ANNOUNCER: With the first pick
in the 2019 NBA Draft,
the New Orleans Pelicans select Zion Williamson
from Duke University.
The Memphis Grizzlies select Ja Morant.
RJ Barrett. De'Andre Hunter.
Matisse Thybulle from the University of Washington.
MATISSE THYBULLE: You get drafted, right?
Walk up, whole time you're just thinking, like,
don't trip, like, make sure to look
in the right direction at the camera.
And then you get off the stage, and it was, like,
the best way I could describe it was a media gauntlet.
INTERVIEWER: How your mom Elizabeth
still inspires you to this day-- what does it mean
to walk across that stage in honor of her?
I wish she was here to see it.
I mean, my mom's a doctor, she took care of people,
so I try to give back as much as I can.
And now being in the NBA,
I think I'll have even more of a stage
to do that now, so...
Before you know it, it's 2:00 in the morning.
Like, okay, we need you to be in Philly
at 8:00 a.m. tomorrow.
And I'm like, "What?"
Let's dance.
[ crowd cheering ]
♪
Yeah, it was almost like the first day of school again.
INTERVIEWER: What's it gonna be like seeing yourself in the game?
That might be the craziest part.
Yeah, it has been a tough year.
Things are as uncertain now as they have ever been.
-No justice! -CROWD: No peace!
-No justice! -No peace!
REPORTER: The NBA is back!
COMMENTATOR: Gets turned around, Delon Wright, blocked!
Epic play by Gobert.
I'll just say that humanity has been...
really been out of our comfort zone right now.
-Coronavirus. -Coronavirus. -Coronavirus.
-This is their new hoax. -...is likely to spread.
COMMENTATOR: Danny Green!
DANNY GREEN: If we can get through this year
and actually come out on top as an organization, man...
We could make it through this season.
We could not make it through this season, like,
who knows what's going to happen?
COMMENTATOR: Donovan Mitchell going to the roof right here.
COMMENTATOR: What a shot by Jaylen Brown!
The bubble experience, it was a little different.
Um, you know, it helped me see a lot of things,
uh, for what they really are, with no distractions.
-No justice! -CROWD: No peace!
There's such a spotlight on-- on every situation.
COMMENTATOR: Alley-oop to McGee, slam dunk!
And Haslem scored the goal.
2nd COMMENTATOR: Solo!
COMMENTATOR: Wow! What a game for Matisse Thybulle!
THYBULLE: My rookie year was
definitely an experience, one to remember.
We were, like, we knew it was gonna be a little crazy,
but we definitely didn't expect--
there's no way we could have expected
what actually happened.
COMMENTATOR: For the win! Yeah!
2nd COMMENTATOR: Wow, the crowd on their feet.
That's what they came to see.
[ overlapping reporters in various languages ]
REPORTER: ...have identified the cause
of the mysterious pneumonia...
DANILO GALLINARI: Just because of what was going on
in-in China first and how quick the virus
was spreading all over Europe
and hitting-- hitting Italy first.
Nobody was prepared for, uh, a tragedy of this magnitude.
And so I was like, well, it's gonna take--
it's gonna take just a couple of weeks, and we're gonna be
in the same situation in the States.
We have lost nobody to coronavirus
-in the United States. -[ cheering and applause ]
We had an administration in the White House
that was telling us things are gonna be all right.
It's certainly not as serious as it appears.
Are there worries about a pandemic at this point?
No, not at all, and we're--
we have it totally under control.
We were, like, 30 days ahead
because we were reading Italian newspapers.
We were talking to our relatives back home.
GALLINARI: In Italy, the restrictions were different than the States.
My mom was by herself,
and she was not able to get out of the house
for almost three months.
Uh, I can't imagine, you know, uh,
a life, uh, without getting out
your apartment, your house.
ZURETTI: Those people in the U.S. were just discounting
even the possibility that the virus would actually come.
Because, yeah, we shut down the flights.
It was so, uh, naive
to think that the virus was not already all over the place.
REPORTER: And there are fears
the coronavirus has now reached the United States.
2nd REPORTER: ...increases every day, so this is very worrying.
All right, so the coronavirus is making its impact felt
-across the world of sports. -And they have shut down
the Italian Soccer League, they shut down Chinese
-Basketball Association-- -Maybe we're gonna have
the games, which is what they've done in Europe,
but you're not gonna be able to have fans in there.
Ain't got the fans in the crowd,
that's who I play for; if I show up
to an arena, and there ain't no fans in there,
-I ain't playing. -...administration has
taken the most aggressive action in modern history.
What is the next step? 'Cause if one player--
one player-- comes down with the virus...
Everything was foggy at that particular moment in time,
and it was incredibly scary.
I'm not an idiot. I could tell there's
nothing unique about Americans that's gonna
stop this thing from coming to us.
It wasn't if it was gonna affect our game.
It was-- It was simply a question of when.
I mean, we just gotta be prepared for anything.
And at the same time,
keep living, keep doing what we do.
COMMENTATOR: The first two games between these teams were in Utah.
2nd COMMENTATOR: Now, they don't have the services of Rudy Gobert.
Now, that guy's not here tonight.
Rudy Gobert, he's out with an illness.
COMMENTATOR: Now Chris Paul went in...
poked his head in to try to get a little more information.
As soon as I walk on the court,
I don't see the-- the referees in their spots.
COMMENTATOR: And you see the teams heading back to the locker room.
I knew something was-- was wrong.
My head went right to the virus.
...tonight has been postponed.
You are all safe.
Thank you for coming out tonight.
MARK CUBAN: I mean, it's not within the realm of possibilities.
It's just, it seemed more like out of a movie than reality.
We shut it down.
The NBA suspended its season after a player on the Utah Jazz
tested positive for coronavirus.
RUDY GOBERT: And, yeah, I was the first NBA player to test positive.
Instead of saying that the-the COVID caused
the shutdown of NBA, all the headlines were saying
that Rudy Gobert caused it.
ZURETTI: From Rudy Gobert to the bubble.
How unfair is that?
REPORTER: Now we're hearing, uh, Donovan Mitchell,
after Rudy Gobert.
Donovan Mitchell had no symptoms.
Solo in here, playing video games all day
and, um, can't wait to get back out there
and play in front of the best fans in the world.
So we need role models, like Gobert now,
to come out and say, hey, I didn't take this seriously.
I wish I would've took this thing more seriously.
And I hope everyone else is gonna do so.
It was strange, a strange feeling.
You know, this-- this whole thing happened
so-- so suddenly.
Immediately as a player, you start thinking about,
well, what's gonna happen to my contract?
How we gonna practice? How we gonna just stay in shape?
And then is the game gonna be able to continue?
How are we gonna work through this?
Can you kind of take me through
the way Wednesday played out?
I was like, this is about to get real, you know?
Life was not normal after that.
ADAM SILVER: I think that there was a clear consensus,
I think we're at the point now that...
that this has been declared a pandemic.
[ distant police sirens ]
♪
It was a nightmare.
I'm from New York, so my family,
every week, there was, you know, two or three people that we knew
were passing away.
SMITH: Uh, for a multi-billion-dollar industry
to completely shut down,
that's when you knew COVID-19, the coronavirus pandemic,
had reached astronomical proportions
and that it was going to ravage the lives
not just of Americans
but everyone across this globe.
As a basketball fan, I'm depressed.
As a human being and as an American citizen,
I'm getting to the point
where I'm scared as hell.
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL: Uh, what was your thought process in saying,
okay, we're going to suspend, as opposed to
cancel the rest of the season?
I think the goal-- and been talking a lot
to Michele Roberts, the Players Association,
just talked to Chris Paul, the president of the union,
again earlier tonight--
coming together, what makes sense here
without compromising anyone's safety?
ROBERTS: Then the phone calls started from the players.
I always love talking to players, but frankly,
I didn't talk to players at this-- at this level, ever.
And I was fielding 15 player calls a day.
As time went on and more people were dying,
and then this myth of, under 30, you're safe,
began to reveal itself as being exactly that, a myth,
then the players were, well,
you know, what do you mean, return to play?
I'm not trying to die for basketball.
Maybe this is too much, y'all.
We don't-- We don't need to go play.
And I remember we called Michele,
"We ain't gonna do this.
We ain't gonna do this. Like, it's too much."
She said, "All right, fellas, that's cool.
But this, this, this, this, and this."
REPORTER: There are gonna be hundreds if not thousands
of people who lose their paychecks.
I mean, this is gonna have a big impact
not just for those of us who like to watch
but for those people for whom it's their livelihood.
ROBERTS: And when we did the math,
it was pretty obvious that there was gonna be
a substantial financial hit.
You know, I could be like,
look, man, I got enough money. I don't care what we do.
Whatever, I'm gonna be good. But that ain't--
that ain't how this work, you know, 'cause we're a union.
We got a full body of players,
and we got young guys who came in our league
who didn't foresee anything like this.
Our players' average stay in the NBA is--
is under-- it's about 4.2 years.
Some of us are not gonna be around for a while.
There's so many more issues
than players being able to play here, okay?
The pandemic has affected everyone
who needs something to root for, uh,
something to get up in the morning to look forward to.
If the games ever stop, Rome stops.
If Americans don't have the joy of sports
and entertainment, this country may go berserk.
Assuming they can figure out a way to do it mechanically,
there will be a restart, yes?
-The bubble. -The bubble. -The bubble.
-They were like, "What?!"
What did you think first when you heard about the bubble?
I mean, it sounded crazy.
The environment outside is so unsafe
that you have to seal yourself in a bubble to play?
JOE ROGOWSKI: We had to deal with the virus,
and that was our number one priority, our number one issue.
So we had to get the players' perspective, we had to get
the medical community's perspective,
we had to get the league's perspective,
um, and just coming together and--
and trying to create this $100 million bubble.
You know how many skeptics were out there
telling them they couldn't do it-- it couldn't be done?
JaVALE McGEE: I did have a hesitation going into the bubble,
um, just because I... I don't like closed spaces.
I don't like restrictions.
It was like over 100 pages of the health protocols.
ROGOWSKI: I think that helped,
um, with a lot of the anxiety of the players,
and it helped educate them.
I mean, I didn't read it.
It's almost like the Apple Terms and Conditions.
You're like, yeah, I accept.
But there were countless conversation
about which barbers would come
into the bubble.
-[ electric razor buzzing ] -Whoo!
Make sure you guys have ice.
We need, uh, semis of ice.
-Aah! -Whoo!
See what it takes to be great?
I love wine. Had a lot of cases of wine
-shipped to the bubble. -[ clicks tongue ]
I knew most of the players wanted to be in Vegas,
uh, but they knew they wouldn't be able
to keep these dudes contained if they were in Vegas.
So, as a result of that,
you know, they had them in Orlando, at Mickey Mouse.
♪
ROGOWSKI: Fortunately, at that time, Disney was shut down as well.
They were aware of what the needs
of an NBA team environment would be.
Disney was able to implement it for us.
The NBA believes once we get down to Orlando
in that bubble, that things will be safe
and that this will work.
I frankly did not plan to come for any length of time
when the players started saying,
"Michele, you coming, right?"
I said, "Yeah, I'm coming." I guess I'm coming.
GOBERT: None of us really knew if it was gonna be safe or not,
but with time and with, you know,
having the conversations, we felt more and more confident
that this thing could-- could-- could happen.
Just as we were starting to get in a rhythm and, like,
okay, this is how we can be helpful...
OFFICER: Let me see your hands.
GEORGE FLOYD: I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
-Let me see your other hand. -Please, please, Mr. Officer--
-Both hands. -I didn't do nothing.
-Put your hands up right now. -Hey, please, please--
-Let me see your other hand. -I didn't do nothing.
All right. What'd I do, though?
WOMAN: Look how they ignore people out here.
Got him kneed on the ground.
-[ Floyd groaning ] -He crying...
FLOYD: I'm in pain. Please, please...
Please, I can't breathe.
Please, man.
Please, somebody help me...
[ Floyd groaning ]
WOMAN: How long y'all gotta hold him down?
OFFICER: Why you don't do drugs, kids.
MAN: It ain't about drugs, bro.
WOMAN: Nah, y'all don't gotta put...
Right.
MAN: He is human, bro.
Bro, you got him down, man. Let him breathe, least.
FLOYD: I can't breathe.
2nd MAN: I've been trying to help out...
[ ragged sobs ]
3rd MAN: One of my homeys died the same way back...
-FLOYD: I'm about to die... -OFFICER: Relax.
♪
You know, at my age, I've-- this is not news,
and that's what's so-- so frustrating.
It's not news. And so when I saw it,
I said, you know, kinda, here we go again.
That was, um...
that was hard to stomach, you know?
And I-- I think it...
I think it shocked the world
that this was done so nonchalantly, a person's life
was taken away.
KILLER MIKE: It's not easy to watch a, um, a man
kneel on the neck of a man.
When George Floyd-- when everybody watched that video,
I was overwhelmed with emotion, of course.
It was incredibly sad. It was incredibly depressing,
but to say that that's something
that's normal, that wasn't normal.
Even with the most heinous things
that we have experienced in American history.
I don't know if we can recall
somebody leaning on the neck of a Black man
for eight minutes and 46 seconds while the cameras are rolling.
I don't know if we can say definitively
that we've ever seen anything close to that.
Having said all of that,
the other things are unfortunately
yet incredulously normal.
I'm here for my baby. [ sobbing ]
And I'm here for George.
Because I want justice for him.
PAUL: Try to shelter your kids
from certain experiences, but you contemplate,
should I show this to my kids?
Right? Like, is it too much for her?
Is this too heavy to show an eight-year-old little girl?
But we showed her. We showed her.
And so as my daughter, as she watched the video
and she saw what happened, she cried.
She said, "Is this gonna happen to Chris?"
And that's my son.
INTERVIEWER: What do you want people to know?
Mm...
kinda that I miss him.
PAUL: No matter what you do, right?
You can just be into lifting weights.
You might just be tall, right?
But you're just always looked at as a threat,
and that's not a good feeling.
We're all sitting in quarantine and feeling helpless
like we couldn't do anything.
And, um...
the idea struck to me was that I wanted to go
be in a place and protest, where I felt like my voice
and my presence mattered most.
And the first place that came to mind was Georgia.
-LEADER: No justice! -CROWD: No peace!
-No justice! No justice! -No peace! No peace!
REPORTER: Throughout the country,
more protests today from New York to California,
tens of thousands remembering George Floyd
and demanding change.
2nd REPORTER: For the 12th night in a row,
a coast-to-coast call to action.
3rd REPORTER: Nationwide protests...
4th REPORTER: ...for not just George Floyd
but also Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.
Similar scenes not only in Minneapolis,
but Denver we saw yesterday.
-New York City. -Straight to the White House.
4th REPORTER: This is in Atlanta, Georgia.
-Across four continents. -From Brazil to Iran.
-In the heart of London. -In Berlin.
The protests were largely peaceful.
Being an NBA player don't exclude me
from no conversations at all.
First and foremost, I'm a Black man.
And I'm a member of this community.
THYBULLE: It's one thing to make a tweet,
but it's another thing to actually go out there
and embody what you're-- what you're saying.
JAMES BALDWIN: The reason that Black people are in the streets
has to do with the lives
they are forced to lead in this country.
[ crowd chanting ]
And they're forced to lead these lives
by the indifference
and the, um, apathy
and a certain kind of ignorance, a very willful ignorance,
on the part of their co-citizens.
At the end of the day, we want this world to be a safe place.
We want this world to be a free place.
And we want our kids to grow up better than we did.
BALDWIN: I want...
exactly what you want.
And you know what you want.
-What do we want? -CROWD: Justice!
-When do we want it? -Now!
-What do we want? -Justice!
-When do we want it? -Now!
This is not just your fight, okay?
This is everybody's fight.
This should be about, uh, everyone's against racism.
I got a grandfather that marched next to Dr. King in the '60s.
And he was amazing, he would be proud to see us all here.
LEADER: Louder!
-CROWD: I can't breathe! -LEADER: What?
-I can't breathe! -What?
-I can't breathe! -I can't breathe!
I can't breathe!
-I can't breathe! -I can't breathe!
STEPHEN JACKSON: They're not going to demean the character of George Floyd.
-That's right. Mm-hmm. -My twin.
A lot of times, when police do things
that they know that's wrong, the first thing they try to do
is cover it up and bring up your background
to make it seem like the bullshit that they did
-was worthy. -[ scattered affirmations ]
When was murder ever worthy?
[ crowd murmuring ]
We are the community of Black Life Freedom!
UDONIS HASLEM: These situations with George Floyd, Breonna Taylor,
um, and-- and just the list can continue to just go on and on.
There definitely has to be justice for George--
I love this city, I love these people.
And I'm standing with y'all on everything
that y'all believe in and what we believe in,
and we gonna do it the right way.
People that don't understand fully right now,
but they're trying to understand,
and they want to be a part of change, man,
embrace those people and teach 'em.
You know what I'm saying? Don't--
Don't, um, outcast them because we're no different
than the people who we're trying to, you know, fight against
and who we're complaining about if we do that.
We condemn what happened in Minneapolis.
I took my helmet off, they laid their batons down.
I want to make this a parade, not a protest.
[ cheering ]
It was actually one of the, um, moments
in-- in 2020 where there was a feeling of great unity.
-CROWD: I know! -LEADER: Change is here!
CROWD: Change is here!
JULIUS ERVING: And, uh, we need more feelings of great unity,
but we need less things to be the triggers.
CROWD: George Floyd! George Floyd!
That changed the world.
INTERVIEWER: Kimberly, I'll just roll camera.
-We'll jump right in. -JONES: Okay, let's go.
All right, let's roll cameras A and B, and sound.
MAN: One second...
JONES: My name is Kimberly Jones.
I am a writer/activist.
I am originally from Chicago,
but I've been living a long time here in A-town.
And yeah, I'm just-- I'm-- I'm just here
for the elevation of my people.
This movement that we call the Black Lives Matter movement
is really the Black Deaths Matter movement.
Because we haven't begun to tap into Black lives.
Because if you're talking about Black lives,
you have to talk about the living.
Then you have to talk about health care,
education, homeownership,
equity, mass incarceration.
This is lives.
This is dealing in making sure there is safety and equity
and equality for Black lives.
We're in the streets every day fighting for recognition
and justice for Black death.
When they isolate these stories,
it makes it seem like it's not as severe as it really is.
There's been over 470 murders at the hands of law enforcement
of Black and Indigenous people
in the last 20 years in the state of Minnesota.
And they sweep them under the rug,
and everybody moves on.
BIANCA AUSTIN: And that's what we're big on in Breonna's case.
Because nobody has been held accountable
for anything, you know?
So it's just like a real
slap in the face for a young lady to be killed
in her own home and nobody be held accountable for it.
[ indistinct chatter ]
WOMAN: Oh, Bree... Oh, my God.
TOSHIRA GARRAWAY: I have a relationship
with Emmett Till's family.
His family looked at the pictures of my son's father,
the way that he was found, and she's the one that said,
"This is a modern-day lynching.
This reminds me of Emmett Till."
And that is what these murders are.
JONES: My mother-- not my grandmother,
not my great-grandmother--
remembers watching someone get hung
and still just wants equality for her grandkids
when she should really want to burn this bitch to the ground.
REPORTER: The protestors on the street right now
need to remember that the citywide curfew
takes effect at 8:00 tonight.
You're not honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
and the civil rights movement.
If you want change in America, go and register to vote.
Go home.
I'm not one to lose hope.
I keep on hoping.
-Go inside now! -Get inside!
-Get in the house! -[ screaming ]
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: The realistic fact is
that we still have a long, long way to go.
We have many more difficult days ahead.
MAN: Stop firing your fucking gun!
That dream that I had that day
has at many points turned into a nightmare.
WOMAN: Why do you burn down your own neighborhood?
It's not ours!
We don't own anything!
SHERRIE DEANS: I-I can't express what a complex time this was.
And-and you're starting to see all of the elements
of systemic racism just laid bare.
MAN: Tell me why I'm under arrest, sir.
Why-why am I under arrest, sir?
REPORTER: Uh, our correspondent, Omar Jimenez,
was also led away in handcuffs, as was his producer.
MAN: I've never seen anything like this.
And then we walk into the room and say,
"Hey, you guys want to go back and play basketball?"
I was definitely skeptical about a return to action.
Looking at where we were at, as a nation
and as a country as a whole, I just felt like it--
it might not be the right thing to do at that time.
I definitely did think that us playing
could also play into the part of us being a distraction.
It could've been used
as an attention-grabber the other way.
ROBERTS: I completely sympathize with this notion
that, you know... I'm-I'm not in the mood
for basketball right now.
I'm in the mood to do something about stopping
these-these crazy police officers
from shooting people that look like me.
No question but that that was a legitimate concern.
I think it's two different perspectives on this as players:
You choose to not come back and play
because you think this is silencing us
by playing basketball and coming down here
and not protesting and not demanding justice
before basketball.
You don't want to put your profession before,
uh, what's going on in the real world.
But then there's a-- there's another group of us,
which is the group I fall into, um, that thinks
coming down here with all the light,
with all the visibility on what we're doing down here
and all the eyes, we can use our platform
to actually have a greater purpose.
Sports plays such a major role in our society.
I think sometimes it's overlooked.
COLIN KAEPERNICK: ...continue to stand with the people
that are being oppressed.
When there's significant change
and I feel like that flag represents
what it's supposed to represent, I'll stand.
I feel like understanding that
and using that to the right capacity
is what sports is supposed to be about.
FRED HAMPTON: You have to understand
that people have to pay the price for peace.
[ laughing ]
Wait a minute, I'm right here, right?
MAN: Yes, sir, yes.
Yeah, if you don't mind, once you sit down with him...
I-I've said on occasions, I feel fortunate
to have fallen from the tree of two freedom fighters
that are Chairman Fred Hampton, also Akua Njeri,
formerly known as Deborah Johnson.
Um, I'm honored and I'm humbled
to be a Panther cub, by birth and by battle.
Anyone who believes that this system,
as police or-- or law-- any form of law enforcement,
whatever, that they want to stop crime,
you believe Don King want to stop boxing.
'Cause, reality, it's an economy.
It's a livelihood based on us fighting amongst each other.
HAMPTON JR.: The Black Panther Party see the differences
between our people are reconcilable.
However, differences between the people
and the state are irreconcilable.
So there's a difference between a war and a revolution.
A war is two occupying armies.
They suit up, and they boot up, and they get down to get down.
A revolution, on the other hand, you win the mass--
the participation of the masses of the people.
I think we should utilize NBA players,
athletes in general, artists,
get these messages going on in the community.
I don't think we can afford the luxury to look
for perfect allies.
MAN: We're trying to figure out...
I remember in 1996 or 1997,
um, we defended Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
when he refused to stand for the national anthem.
COMMENTATOR: Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf,
a devout Muslim,
has been suspended by the NBA...
You can't stand for God and be for oppression.
MAN: America is the reason why, uh,
he's making the big bucks,
and, I mean, he should at least respect that.
You know, it really doesn't affect anybody else,
so he should be able to do what he wants to.
MAN: I don't like it. I'm a soldier.
But, hey, that's his personal opinion,
and that's the opinion that I fight to defend.
People forget that this was long before Colin Kaepernick.
And the union has always had a strong commitment
to defending players who wish to convey a message.
Through the years, that commitment has evolved
to the point where it is now off the charts.
We love to play. Like, we want to play this game,
but at the same time, you have COVID,
and you have the social injustice. Should we?
You know, basketball lasts only but so long.
And these things that we're dealing with
or our families or our communities are dealing with
are something we're gonna have to deal with forever.
At a certain point, you realize there's
more to life than basketball.
ROBERTS: I said, guys, understand that
whether you restart or not,
there's gonna be another Black man killed by the police.
That you can't prevent it by not playing,
and understand you can't prevent it by playing.
This is going to happen again.
Then they do what... what-what adults do.
They say, okay.
Okay, I think this makes sense. Let's vote.
And we restarted the season.
-McGEE: Gigi, where Daddy going? -Basketball game.
Daddy going to a basketball game?
For how long?
A long time, huh?
I'm gonna miss you.
It was fun, and now you're taking it away from us.
I'm excited to go to Orlando for the bubble,
but I'm not excited to go to Orlando for the bubble.
I was going to the airport, literally to go away to be
on a campus for three months
and, at the time, they didn't tell us if our family was
ever gonna ever be able to come.
But there's one goal and one goal only.
What goal is that, Gigi?
To win a championship, whoo!
Whoo!
It was a surreal feeling,
but I've been making sacrifices my whole life.
I-I need to do this for my family,
and I need to do this for the organization.
Let's go and win a championship, baby.
Day one on my trip to the bubble.
The bubble, the bubble, the bubble.
CJ McCOLLUM: You know, me personally,
I voted not to go to the bubble.
I voted no to a lot of stuff.
But if you look at the rest of the league,
you look at the rest of staff,
the NBA in general, how many people would have
been affected by the billions of dollars lost in income,
I think the collective of guys, they care enough
to do what's best.
♪
ZURETTI: How can we actually play in the bubble?
The bubble doesn't exist.
The bubble has holes.
The bubble bursts just with one finger.
The initial screening process was in all the local markets.
That was to hopefully identify anybody
before they even got on the plane to come to Orlando.
During that two-week time,
we did identify, I would say, over 30 players,
that were positive, in their markets.
Oh, God. For those that don't know,
part of my job as being a rookie
is getting Chick-Fil-A
for all the players on the plane.
And even in a state of pandemic...
...that job still sticks.
-Thank you. -ROGOWSKI: So all the teams
flew here on a private plane.
All the staff on the private plane was also tested
so that you knew you had a clean plane coming in.
We can't dap each other up?
I mean, everybody passed the test, right?
Can we at least dap each other up?
All right, I'll give you a dap.
But again, all it takes is one person,
and, you know, who knows?
MAN: The NBA believes once we get down to Orlando,
in that bubble, that things will be safe
and that this will work.
I am more optimistic than I was before
that the NBA will not only restart its season
but complete its season.
Yeah, welcome back, y'all, welcome back.
♪ Welcome back, welcome back ♪
♪ Welcome back ♪
[ laughing ]
♪ Welcome back ♪
♪ Yeah, man, how you doing? You good? ♪
♪ I know you like that... ♪
I know you're gonna like it!
♪ Welcome back, man ♪
♪ Welcome, welcome, welcome ♪
♪ Welcome back ♪
♪ Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome back... ♪
Every other row...
it was really spaced out on the bus.
"These seats are closed. Please do not use."
♪ Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome back ♪♪♪
WORKER: Say "ah" for me.
I know, nobody likes that one.
That's it, you are all done, my friend.
-You have a great night now. -Thank you.
I don't shake hands. I do this, but thank you.
No, I want to shake your hand.
-What about a hug? -No, I'm good.
[ laughter ]
MAN: First and foremost, I want to really just
thank you for the sacrifice that you're all making.
So we are working with some of the leading
health experts in the world to make this
the most safest environment that we possibly can.
-[ laughing ] -Good job, Nellie.
[ hawks ]
Oh, ugh.
Shit, all right, boogies.
I feel like this setup is just...
just so amazing, you know?
I did not think they could just put up this kind of bubble.
ROGOWSKI: Once you got in, just to add another layer,
we had the players do another 48 hours of quarantine
-in which they were tested. -Got your test?
-Yes, ma'am. -All right.
-Can I place this on your arm? -Yep.
ENES FREEDOM: I feel like this bubble is
the safest place on Earth right now.
They knew they had to isolate before they even got here.
They had to go quarantine before they even got here.
And then once they got here, they were gonna be asked
to do additional quarantine. But now we have a clean bubble,
so it was, I-I-I think, done
as well as we could from the beginning.
-Ah, man. -[ beeping ]
Day one.
Literally going into 48-hour quarantine right now.
-Hi. Welcome. -Hello.
-Thank you for being here. -Thank you.
-Have a good day. -Yeah, thank you. You too.
Home sweet home.
THABO SEFOLOSHA: I made a strong stance, you know,
by not going into the bubble.
Obviously, you know, the-the social issue was
a big part of it.
But I personally have a problem when
the owner of my team is donating for the reelection
of a president that's clearly divisive
and anti what I represent.
So, for that, you know, I think it's...
it's bigger than basketball, and--
and I was excited at first, you know, to go back, and...
being with them, and, uh, you know, I was...
I was kinda looking forward to the experience.
It was hard, you know, obviously,
leaving my teammates behind and-and deciding not to...
not to make it, but it's-it's one
that I made for my family and-and for myself.
♪
MAN: They're nearing. The testers.
-Open the-- ah. -Ah.
I know.
Up.
-You're all set. -Thank you.
-Breakfast is here. -McGEE: The first 48 hours,
we couldn't leave our rooms,
so it was premade food that they would leave at our door,
knock on our door and run away.
So we'd open the door,
and they'd be gone already, and we'd grab our food.
-Sack lunches are here, baby. -You know what I'm saying?
There ya go, look, look, there ya go.
Oh, wow. Nope.
Yep, yep, yep, nope.
Yep, yep, oh yeah.
We're professional athletes and all that, right?
But they be over here crying, talking about somebody
can't stay healthy, and their body breaking down,
and all this other...
[ sighing ] Just sayin', bro.
We is in Orlando.
Mm, mm.
-Mm-mm. -ROBERTS: It was pretty clear
that if we were going to ask the players
to be essentially removed from the world,
we could give them little to complain about.
But we couldn't cut corners.
I mean, you-you could,
but it wasn't gonna make for a very happy campus.
Of course, they did find things to complain about
in the first few weeks, namely food.
That look like a goddamn flying saucer.
And then we upped the ante.
MAN: Mm, real food, they weren't playing.
They not playing at all.
Okay, this is my first step out of quarantine.
Ah, freedom.
[ laughing ]
-Welcome out. -It's day one.
Are you ready for school?
-We're going to school! -Oh!
Oh, that's bright.
Feels good to feel the sun again.
What type of bird is that, bro?
What?!
Ah, nah...
Oh, man.
Hit your MagicBand whenever you come in or out.
-[ chiming ] -Perfect. Green means go.
-Is that good? -Yes, sir.
What's up?
A.C.!
They put courts in the ballroom.
A.C., man, no home court advantage on this court.
Yo, this is crazy.
Hey, stay-- whoa, that's--
that's five and a half feet-- oh, shit.
It's a good day one, y'all.
Okay, it's real nice in here.
We got stands even though we can't have no fans.
That don't make sense, but hey.
I've-I've seen worse.
Boy always got his muscles out.
So, we gotta sit this far apart?
-Six feet, yeah. -This is some bullshit.
I know the players look at it as a unique experience
and have, you know, more of that team dynamic
without any distractions that go on with everyday life.
-One, two, three. -ALL: Defense!
Um, it's allowed teams to, uh, bond together,
and that's been a pleasant surprise.
REPORTER: How's the adjustment been,
just overall your thoughts on life
inside the bubble right now?
DWIGHT POWELL: This is one of the closest groups socially
that I've been a part of, as far as an NBA team.
This is going to be our family the next three months.
[ indistinct chatter ]
The amenities turned out to be a big hit.
-Whoa! -Every now and then,
people airball, all right? Shut up.
There was a lot of golf.
Comin' in hot.
-Whoa! -[ laughter ]
Does anyone know what they're doing?
ROBERTS: A lot of fishing.
-To Miami! -[ laughing ]
[ engine stalling ]
This boat is stranded.
2020 in a nutshell.
Got a life vest.
I'm too close to home not to get there.
How many weeks has it been, 12?
Nah, man, it's been two. It's like, "Oh, all right,
let's go play some Ping-Pong."
INTERVIEWER: Is it true that you're the best
Ping-Pong player in the bubble?
I haven't lost yet, so yes, I think I'm the best one.
We go to the pool a lot.
Tacko's swim class.
Those two are trying to teach me how to swim.
Almost there, bro.
There you go.
-We're going! -Almost.
[ cheering ]
What's good?
-You know what today is? -Taco Tuesday!
[ screeching ]
On your marks, get set, go!
-Whoo! -We losing! Too much bacon!
[ overlapping shouts ]
It's not that hard. It's not that difficult.
You know what I mean, it's... we're living in a bloody resort.
Whoo!
It still ain't home, but it made the landing a lot softer.
[ screaming ]
-Okay! -Okay.
[ clapping ]
REPORTER: Tased and arrested,
a Milwaukee Bucks rookie ended up in jail overnight
after an incident in a Walgreens parking lot.
REPORTER: Surveillance video shows
at least six police vehicles surrounding a car.
2nd REPORTER: Milwaukee police say an officer
was doing a business check here when they noticed
Brown's vehicle parked across two handicapped parking spaces,
which you can't see on the surveillance footage.
REPORTER: The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office
sent us this mugshot of Brown dated today, January 26th.
2nd REPORTER: A source says Brown got
into an altercation with officers,
which led to him being taken to the ground
and taken to the Milwaukee County Jail
for resisting an officer.
Now, the Bucks have not told me whether or not he will face
any disciplinary action moving forward,
including whether or not he will suit up tonight.
Delta Five, Scene One, AV Marker.
It was just supposed to be a simple ticket home,
but I know this is a reality.
Like, what can I do so this, you know, doesn't happen?
REPORTER: According to the police report,
the officer asks Brown repeatedly to step back,
but Brown refuses, becoming, quote, "very aggressive."
The situation just escalated from a parking ticket
to, you know, what it was.
REPORTER: "A Taser had to be employed
to get Brown in control with handcuffs."
They Tased me, arrested me,
and they booked me for the night.
You know, that-- that was that.
REPORTER: Eighteen hours later, he would play in this game
against the Brooklyn Nets.
He could be seen during warm-ups
with visible bruises and marks on his face.
I had a solid game, but I could feel, you know,
a couple guys looking at me 'cause they could see
the-the scars and everything,
my face swollen, and all of that.
I would say a lot of people was on the fence.
They thought, you know, I helped escalate
the situation, this, that, and the third.
POLICE CHIEF: The men and women of the Milwaukee Police Department
are dedicated to protecting and serving
the citizens of Milwaukee.
Understand that we have hundreds of interactions
with citizens each day,
and those contacts end positively.
You know, my pops being a cop, like, growing up, I mean...
him being a cop, it definitely--
I had respect for him and some of the guys
that he was cool with because I seen
what they did once they put down those uniforms.
They helped the community.
They helped the kids in the community.
Being a Black kid growing up
in a Black home, you're taught a lot of things
on how to maneuver life, you know,
how to behave in public, how to behave
when you're pulled over, and I think you--
you consciously think about that as you go through life.
DOC RIVERS: My dad was a police officer
in the area called Maywood.
Maywood was predominantly Black.
There were a bunch of white suburbs all around us.
Especially in the time that I grew up in Chicago,
it was a very segregated city.
And it was an interesting thing, I felt safe in Maywood.
I felt I could go anywhere in Maywood.
But my dad always told me,
if you leave Maywood, you've gotta be very careful.
BOY: Don't make yourself look like
you're about to do anything or don't cause a scene
because people can look at you
and just think you're about to go do something
just because you're Black.
JONES: Why I was talking to 14-year-old Black and Brown students
who had already experienced police brutality.
These kids ain't graduated high school.
And they already told me how the safety officers
at their school treat them
and the officers in their community treat them.
They're children.
WOMAN: How do you feel?
I kind of-- I panic sometimes.
Now I'm just trying to pace it
and get the panic off me.
-Yeah? -Yeah.
So I was walking my dog at night,
and then this police car drove-drove by.
And they just, like, flashed a flashlight at me,
and they looked like they were about to stop.
When they first looked at me, I just, like,
pulled my hoodie down, 'cause I know that
that's one thing that they'll, like, think of
if you have your hoodie on and all that.
So I just tried to, like,
think of reasons to make them keep going.
McGEE: Just culturally,
we don't look at it as it's racism.
We look at it as this is how it is.
And we really don't even realize, like,
every time I see a cop, I feel...
I get tense, I get... I get nervous,
and I don't have a drug or a gun in my car.
So I should have the same confidence a white man has.
Do white people even notice when the police are by them?
Because I stop breathing.
Mm-hmm.
I'm literally like,
let me turn my music down
because I'm in my car that I'm paying for...
Right.
...to make sure that I don't get shot.
My father was a policeman.
He told me one thing.
When the cops stop you, do what they tell you.
MAN: Keep your hands on that steering wheel
at all times.
When he come to that car, it's, "Yes, sir. No, sir."
I'd rather, you know, go file a complaint
than sit there and have to bury my son or my daughter.
I have a lot of family in law enforcement,
and I had one who told me, yeah, there-there's
some crooked cops who,
you know, use the union to back them.
It intimidates a lot of other people on the force
that want to do good things.
So I drive slow.
I have LSU Alumni on the back of my car
because somebody told me once,
you know, if you put your college on the back of there,
they-they... they may be more likely
to leave you alone.
'Cause they're like, well, at least this dude's educated.
You know, after what happened to me in New York,
um, I-I just have a different view, I guess,
on the-the judicial system.
-[ siren wailing ] -They're not doing anything!
-They didn't do nothing! -They didn't do anything!
REPORTER: NBA forward Thabo Sefolosha
is suing the city of New York and five of its police officers
following an incident that landed him
and teammate Pero Antic in jail.
[ overlapping voices ]
REPORTER: Sefolosha has filed a civil lawsuit
after suffering a broken fibula
and ligament damage that caused him
to end his season.
Black people are viewed as poor, mostly.
You know, I was in a nice neighborhood in New York City.
Uh... the easy target at that time was probably me.
If something happened to him, there's a less likely chance,
you know, that he has a father with money to pay for a lawyer
or that he has his own money for a lawyer.
And-and that's, I'm sure,
you know, part of the-- of the problem.
INTERVIEWER: You faced a series of charges,
but you were offered a plea deal.
-Mm-hmm. -But instead,
you went to trial.
Why didn't you take the deal?
Because it wasn't right. It wasn't right.
But you risked going to jail.
And that's why we talk about that systemic problem, you know?
The-the judicial system shocked me almost more than--
than what the police officer did to me in New York,
you know, in the streets. I was very lucky and fortunate
to be able to fight it, but a lot of people are not.
And I think it's-- it's really destructing,
uh, a whole community.
♪
SPEARS: One thing I think that has been
very instrumental in changing things
is the cops have to wear body cameras.
And it's interesting now
'cause when something does happen,
we wait for it, we wait for it, we wait for it.
When-when we hear that it's questionable,
okay, when's the body cam video coming out?
OFFICER: How you doing? Got a driver's license?
Can I get another squad here?
Can you explain this to me?
You have an entirely empty parking lot,
and you parked across two--
I pull-- I pulled up, parked right here.
I was getting out right here.
I-I definitely salute those who do their job the right way
and, you know, help out in the community.
OFFICER: You came here by yourself?
STERLING BROWN: But for those who abuse their power
and try to, you know, show that they somebody
once they put on that badge, you know,
you ain't got no respect from a lot of us.
REPORTER: We do have some breaking news now.
Police have just released body cam video
of an altercation officers had with a member
of the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team.
2nd REPORTER: That started with a parking violation.
I was standing there with my hands in my pockets
the whole time, the whole 20, 30 minutes.
It was cold outside.
That's when they, you know, escalated.
OFFICER: Get your hands out of your pockets now.
Hold on, I got stuff in my hands,
you want me to drop--
-Come on, man. -All right, cuff him up.
-REPORTER: Brown was unarmed. -Somebody got a Taser?
REPORTER: Recordings from four different body cameras
show officers had Sterling Brown surrounded
before they took him to the ground and Tased him.
OFFICER: Taser, Taser, Tase him!
-[ groaning ] -Cuff him up, cuff him up.
REPORTER: The video appears to contradict
an initial police account that reportedly said
Brown was uncooperative.
STERLING BROWN: They punchin', they kickin'.
The cop that Tased me, he drew his gun at first.
So, if I would've pushed one of those officers off,
he would've pulled the trigger
and would've been over with for me.
I wouldn't be here right now, you know, able to tell my story.
OFFICER: Put your hands behind your back.
STERLING BROWN: They are behind my back.
OFFICER: Mr. Brown, are you the Bucks player, man?
What you think?
Come on, now. You stepping on my ankle for what?
REPORTER: What started as one officer
engaging with a Black man over a routine parking violation
turned violent in an instant.
PLAYER: Defense, you gotta remember defense out here.
McGEE: Gigi, you miss Daddy?
Yeah!
Oh, man, I miss you too.
[ sighing ]
Gotta call my-- my baby right now.
Let you see that.
[ line ringing ]
[ woman baby-babbling ]
Hey, Nola!
[ wife baby-babbling ]
THYBULLE: Be normal.
[ laughter ]
Okay, I will be normal, I will be normal.
I will, see?
What are you doing? I said be normal!
[ laughing ] How you doing, my boy?
-You ready? -Yeah!
Tsh! Tsh! Tsh!
Uh, uh!
-Mwah! -Yeah!
My baby! I love you, baby.
-I love you, baby! -[ laughter ]
♪
REPORTER: It was a test for Commissioner Adam Silver.
In a statement, Silver said, "I respect
"our teams' unified act of peaceful protest
"for social justice.
A unified front top to bottom."
COMMENTATOR: Stuffs it, and is fouled!
-Oh! -An incredible play!
MAN: We've been out of sports for months.
BEN PICKMAN: They're playing without fans.
This is a once in a lifetime, once in a generation event
that will probably, hopefully, never happen again.
I'm just as excited as every NBA fan in the world right now.
REPORTER: The league is publicly supporting Black Lives Matter.
Players are wearing messages on their jerseys.
PLAYER: It really resonates.
We're playing for much more than just a game.
POWELL: I think it was imperative
that we have something to remind everyone
that we have not removed ourself from that conversation.
We've seen LeBron James and several other
current players focus on voting issues.
Time to get changed.
I don't give a damn what is on the back of somebody's jersey.
INTERVIEWER: So once that ball went up
and you guys started playing, how did it feel?
You know, not having a crowd...
...it's a... a bit different at times.
COMMENTATOR: Rudy Gobert gets things started for Utah.
JAMAL CRAWFORD: It's, like, the purity of basketball,
'cause it's just you, your team, and the court.
COMMENTATOR: Look close, th-there's Weezy
right there, throw up the deuces.
Can they-- the players, they can't see
those people in the stands, can they?
They're virtual.
What do you mean they can't see 'em?
COMMENTATOR: Williamson with that...
Congratulations on your first win, Zion.
Am I supposed to be looking at somebody?
-You can look at me. -[ laughter ]
It's been amazing that we've been able to use the media,
TV, to our advantage of-- of pushing a message.
We want to make sure that
Daniel Cameron will arrest the cops involved
with Breonna Taylor's death.
That's really why we came to play.
That's good, that's gonna be my answer for every question.
If you come up and interview me after a game,
you can ask me whatever you want to,
but I can tell you whatever I want to tell you.
I think it's a real evolution
of the-the civil rights movement.
They damned if they do, damned if they don't,
but at least they're recognizing
that this matters by putting it on their platform,
which millions of people are gonna see.
How many times in our lifetime have we seen symbolic gestures
that have amounted to close to nothing
in terms of really provoking a change in this country?
Words create change.
If you don't have the words, you don't create change--
No, action creates change.
-Whoa! -This is for the win!
-Got it! Wow! -What a shot.
Wow.
ROBERTS: Guys, understand that, whether you restart or not,
there's gonna be another Black man killed by the police.
REPORTER: It all followed an incident caught on video,
which appeared to show police shooting
29-year-old Jacob Blake multiple times in the back.
We're here...
standing for my son
because he cannot stand for himself.
I live because of my family.
I live day to day because of my children.
With no family, I would have no meaning.
They are my meaning and my purpose.
They shot my son...
...s-seven times.
Seven times.
Like he didn't matter. But my son matters.
JUSTIN BLAKE: We are angry as hell,
and everybody should know it.
And it shouldn't have to be polite,
and you shouldn't be able to play me like
the angry Black guy when my nephew was shot
seven times in the back.
One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven?
DONNELL LAUDERDALE: That's my neighbor. He asked me
if my son could come to his son's birthday party.
He-he had presents in both his hands.
I couldn't even cry. I couldn't cry.
LEADER: Black Lives Matter!
CROWD: Black Lives Matter!
LETETRA WIDMAN: They desensitized us.
So by the time it got to my brother's video,
it was like, oh...
I'm not exempt.
It's become such a weekly event, it-it's almost numbing.
Here we go again. Here we go again.
I can't make sense of it anymore,
and I had been watching
every single video that is posted.
I wish I could stop doing that
because it is making me angry and sad and hopeless.
OFFICER: Hey, she's down at the end of the hall.
I'm supposed to...
...stand still.
I'm supposed to behave a certain way,
but everything inside of me tells me to flee.
WOMAN: No... don't you do it!
Don't you do it!
[ gunfire ]
JUSTIN BLAKE: Less than a foot and a half
from three kids on the other side of the door.
[ laughing ]
Man, give me a break, cuz, please.
Ah.
MAN: Take your time, man.
PAUL: It's real emotion.
Like, it's real emotion,
and, um... [ scoffing ]
it's hard to know what to say.
If you were trained to see people,
generation after generation,
as property and a nuisance...
that's what the world was trained to see us as.
First property, and then a nuisance.
How can you empathize with those people?
You don't. Look at the headlines.
That child, Kyle Rittenhouse,
was written as a troubled child.
Trayvon Martin was written as a thug.
The white boy who shot them kids... dead?
That was at the gas station a block from here.
REPORTER: As the crowd scattered,
the man walked through the middle of the street
with his hands up as police arrived.
Though officers did not challenge or apprehend him.
JUSTIN BLAKE: He crossed state lines
with a military-style weapon.
He went home.
If a Black man shot anybody, went across state lines,
they would have a task force kicking down the door
bringing him back to justice.
LAUDERDALE: That's how you know something wrong
when people willing to destroy where they live at.
That's how you know something wrong.
They gave the white boy $2 million
to help fund his case.
JACOB BLAKE, SR.: I've been getting death threats since
the first week I said something at the news conference.
Hundred and twenty-two.
And all I did was
tell the world my son's a human being.
LAUDERDALE: We was brought here when we ain't want to be here.
One of the news guys said, "Well, why don't you go back?"
Go back where, motherfucker?
Like, really, we the only race in the United States
do not know where the fuck we came from.
The only race that don't know where we came from.
-[ siren whoops ] -Speaking of the devil.
Don't look at me.
I live here. This my neighborhood.
Shit terrifying.
See, and they find the shit funny.
Just do your job. Don't do me.
BLAKE, SR.: At what particular time
are we supposed to say enough is enough?
At what time in the revolution is that gonna be acceptable?
Or are you still gonna be fearful of me
to kill me before I can explain to you
why you don't need to be fearful of me?
We all tired of just seeing the same thing
over and over again.
It's amazing to me...
why we keep loving this country
and this country does not love us back.
You know, it's, uh, it's getting to a point
where people are getting tired and fed up, man. For real.
-Go right here? -Yes.
We... we're going to place a statement as a team today
and go back and continue to educate ourself
and get better awareness of what's going on.
And then we're gonna speak to you guys later, so...
We're gonna read the statement now.
All right, the team statement, um,
"The past four months have shed a light
"on the ongoing racial injustices
"facing our African American community.
"Citizens around the country
"have used their voices and platforms
"to speak out against these wrongdoings.
"Over the last few days in our home state of Wisconsin,
"we've seen the horrendous video of Jacob Blake
"being shot in the back seven times
"by a police officer in Kenosha.
"Despite the overwhelming plea for change,
"there has been no action.
So our focus today cannot be on basketball."
RIVERS: The players decided
we needed to take a breath.
It's not lost to me, the same breath that
George Floyd was not allowed to take.
Our players decided we're taking one.
George Hill ignited it.
Sterling got the fire hotter.
REPORTER: The Milwaukee Bucks literally
decided just before they went out.
That's how quickly it evolved.
When the game stopped, everyone was having
a hard time processing everything that was going on.
I was shocked. I was shocked, you know?
I was-- I totally understood right away why they would do it.
We, like, had a game that night,
so we was getting our minds right.
I think I woke up from a nap, somebody knocking on my door,
like, yo, the Bucks not playing.
Even though it was right before the game, I can see, boom.
REPORTER: Russell Westbrook and Chris Paul.
Here they are leaving.
Now, the reason why this is important is
Chris Paul is the president of the NBPA.
Chris called me and said, "No one's playing."
I think that was the same night we had the first meeting.
I think it was the same night.
These-these days are just blurring.
There are times where you know the best thing to do
is keep the peace, keep your head down.
And there are times where you're called to do something.
Not playing a game, I mean,
it seemed like a grain of sand on the beach.
[ chuckling ]
But, you know, sometimes a grain of sand
can do a lot of damage when it multiplies.
And, uh, it-it sparked something huge.
Tonight, the NBA postponing all three playoff games.
An extraordinary move which was then
followed by the WNBA.
GREEN: MLB, NFL, soccer,
everybody stopped playing.
REPORTER: Take a look at tennis, Naomi Osaka,
she will also be boycotting in her semifinal match.
Man, I'm sure back here in the bubble, they're like,
oh wow, we-- people are listening.
ELIZABETH WILLIAMS: We stand in solidarity
with our brothers in the NBA
and will continue this conversation
and look to take collective action.
This was a different level of protest,
a different level of resistance
than we've ever seen.
LeBRON JAMES: We are scared as Black people in America.
We are-- We are terrified.
How many times in a Black man's life,
in my life, have I been told,
"Oh, not right now, now is not the time"?
The right time is now. It's always now.
WIDMAN: Black men have the power
to end almost every professional sports league
in the country right now if they wanted to.
I think it's best for me to support the players
and just not be here tonight.
I don't agree with entertaining people
who are feeding into my demise.
RIVERS: Some players were mad.
I said, "Your anger's in the wrong place."
I said, "The biggest thing we have to do
"is figure out what we want to do.
"And listen, the Bucks didn't put you here.
"The cops put you here.
All right? Racism put you here."
INTERVIEWER: Give us your own definition of systematic racism.
"What's systematic racism"?
PAT CONNAUGHTON: Just to be frank and honest,
I always thought saying, you know, I didn't--
I don't see color, like, I see all of us as equal
was a positive thing.
I had a few of my teammates say, "No,
"I want you to see the color in me.
"I want you to see the color in me
and still treat me the same way."
I don't even know what systemic racism is.
I just started hearing that probably, like,
two, three years ago.
Racism to me is just racism, period.
I never even checked the definition of it.
I come from, like, direct racism where people,
like, hate you for you.
Hate you for, like, the way you look,
the way you walk, the way you dress,
the way you-- whatever you represent.
NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES: The way that we are taught to think about racism
is it's just about someone's bad feelings.
Does someone like me or not? That's frankly irrelevant.
Racism has always been about economic exploitation and power.
Slavery was a system of economic exploitation.
It was turning people into property
in order to be able to extract
as much profit as you could from their bodies.
The racism came in order to justify
the economic exploitation, not the reverse.
WOMAN: ...believe that slavery put a curse on us somehow.
BALDWIN: Well, it is a curse.
You know?
Um, the American sense of reality is dictated
by what Americans are trying to avoid.
And if you're trying to avoid reality, how can you face it?
RIVERS: I've had a lot of things
that have happened to me in my life.
Skinheads came in and burned my house down,
uh, because I was interracially married.
Locked my animals in a closet on purpose,
uh, and my house was burned down to the ground,
for one reason: because of the color of my skin.
JAYLEN BROWN: There's a lot of stereotypes around Black men.
We can't control ourselves.
We are angry, aggressive, or violent.
We don't care about, you know,
our own kids or our community.
The most successful marketing tool ever created
was to make you fear Black people
because that's how you keep the white supremacy in place,
and that's how you keep the economic advancement
in place for one group of people.
RIVERS: Think about that.
If you give anybody a 200-point lead
to start-- to start the game and then tell me, okay, guys,
now the game is gonna be equal,
well, no, the game's not gonna be equal.
They're up 200.
They're gonna be in front, generational wealth,
and then generational poverty is created.
How can you win? The game is fixed.
How can you win the game that actually still has
laws on the books that are designed
to make sure you don't win?
That's why you have to look at instances like Tulsa.
These are places where people built Black economic wealth,
and they utilized the marketing plan
to make you fear that crazy rapist Black man...
in order to make sure
that the economic structure stayed in place.
[ fire roaring ]
KILLER MIKE: In Greenwood, the neighborhood in Tulsa, Oklahoma
that was Black-ran from top to bottom,
Black dollars went 36 times before they left the community.
That legacy deserves to live.
And if we don't start to take money seriously,
we're going to repeatedly be denied that.
ANDRE IGUODALA: The systematic oppression
has been put in place for us not to have group economics.
The African American community has the, you know,
most powerful spending dollar.
You know, we spend the most money on consumer products, um,
but if you dive a little deeper,
we have the least recycled dollar within our community.
You know, when you talk about recycling your money
within your own community,
that's what helps to build proper schools.
That's what's going to get people to vote.
That's what's gonna raise the value of the properties.
That's when you talk about ownership
and investing in yourself.
I think what we're really talking about in this country
is economic development of Black people,
because I've found that--
Economic development of all people.
Well, we're talking about underprivileged people--
How come just Black people?
How come you only want to do it for Black people?
How come you don't want to do it for white people?
Well, I'll-I'll tell you why. I'll tell you why.
Huh? How come you won't do it for everybody?
How come it's always Black people?
Why don't you talk about all people?
Can I give you an answer?
Please.
We were founded on the ideals of freedom
and the practice of slavery.
And our inability to deal with that hypocrisy
is why we saw a Black man
get lynched on national television
and why Black Americans have
continued to take to the streets for centuries.
-LEADER: ...her name? -CROWD: Breonna Taylor!
-What's his name? -Jacob Blake!
-No justice! -No peace!
♪
We got a top secret meeting.
SMITH: I think that, if the Milwaukee Bucks
stood alone, it would've been absolutely,
positively disastrous, but the fact that
they've all come together collectively, I think,
speaks profoundly about what's transpired.
So they had the first meeting.
That was the largest player meeting I-I've attended.
KLEMPNER: Never have we had the opportunity to say,
all right, everybody is here.
I want the Lakers in this corner.
I want the Raptors in this corner.
The meetings were serious.
Like, literally, every team was there.
HASLEM: It wasn't about the Heat or the Celtics or the Lakers
or the Mavericks, or none of that.
It was just about being on the right side of this shit.
RIVERS: That was a long night.
And as a coach, I gotta tell you,
I-I knew the bubble was hard,
but I didn't appreciate
how hard the bubble was until that night.
Guys are pouring out their feelings.
ROBERTS: And that's when the buzz began.
You know, what are we-- what are we doing here?
What's the point? They're still killing us.
You know, what are we doing here?
MARC DAVIS: And that, like everything,
would bring a level of anxiety
because it's the unknown, and we're not certain.
And I think, in times of crisis, that's when you really see
what you have and what you're made out of.
REPORTER: ...new and interesting insight
from what happened today in Orlando,
and even this evening, as the players
are talking about potentially not just not playing Thursday
but ending the playoffs altogether, here in 2020.
MAN: The league is bleeding money
every day that they're there, and especially
every day that they're there and not playing games.
I said, "Excuse me,
"you don't finish this season,
"that multibillion-dollar deal you agreed to...
is null and void."
REPORTER: ...Players Association, I'm told,
laid out for the players the financial implications.
KLEMPNER: I'm going to have to describe
to the players...
the financial impact
of our not playing
for the remainder of the playoffs.
I did it. And if there was a hook,
they would have pulled me off of the stage.
Um, this was about so much more than money.
SMITH: When these players
contemplated canceling play in the bubble,
it empowers the owner to rip up
the collective bargaining agreement,
take into account
the money already lost because of the pandemic,
project the money that will be lost in the future
because of the pandemic,
your role in compromising their bottom line,
and then they get to come to you and say,
"Well, you know what? You were making 35 million,
now let's drop that to 20."
REPORTER: Guaranteed lockout, if they go into it.
And, yeah, LeBron can take that time off, but can...
can the 12th person on the bench afford to take that time off?
Not only just the players; we're talking about the staff.
We're talking about all these people
that could be affected.
Again, uh, we were faced with this great decision of,
should we play, or shouldn't we play?
Understanding how each person felt was important,
and then trying to figure out, you know,
where we go from there.
It was contentious.
It was respectful.
I described it as democracy in action.
We don't want to be here, just throwing some T-shirts
and think that's getting the job done.
REPORTER: These players decided to make a difference,
but what are they willing to give up to make that difference?
Families argue all the time.
I mean, everybody's got a crazy uncle.
It's no different, Black or white.
Families are-are a mess.
MAN: You have the opportunity to make a change
that you might not ever get again.
Don't let it go.
ROBERTS: One of our more senior players,
I love him to death, and I won't call his name--
yes, I will, Udonis--
being very, very, uh... candid.
It was a lot of over here, it was a lot of over there,
it was a lot of back here, it was a lot of front here.
It was a lot of whispering,
crying, whining, complaining.
And at the end of the day, if we're not together,
then what was the point of coming here?
Um, what was the point of any of this?
I love the fact that everyone wasn't together.
There's so many different ways you can go with this.
We're trying to find a mess-- like, a singular message.
KILLER MIKE: What am I really willing to do?
Because being willing to do something means
I have to plot, plan, strategize,
organize, and mobilize.
And that's what those players did-- stepped up.
What is the mission or the goal?
What actions are we gonna take?
What are our contingencies?
SMITH: Maybe you could go up on Capitol Hill,
bring lobbyists with you
to push for your causes to be addressed.
You don't pull that off if your answer is
to walk off the basketball court
and alienate the very people
that have the power to help you.
TOBIAS HARRIS: People will come at you left and right,
you do your homework, you talk about anything,
'cause at the end of the day, whatever you say anyway,
somebody's gonna have something to say about it.
REPORTER: Your reaction, sir, to the NBA protest yesterday,
against another shooting of a Black man by police?
I think people are a little tired of the NBA,
frankly, uh, but I don't know too much about the protest.
But I know their ratings have been very bad,
and that's too-- that's unfortunate.
They've become like a political organization,
and that's not a good thing.
I don't think that's a good thing for sports
or for the country.
DEANS: I'd get the phone calls
that come into our general hotline, uh,
with outraged fans saying they're burning jerseys, um,
and never watching basketball again
because it's insane for millionaire players
to be embracing a Marxist organization.
STERLING BROWN: Sports has always been vocal.
Now, it might have hit a gap to where, you know,
certain generations or whatever didn't,
you know, speak up as much as they, uh, should've.
But, you know, back in the day when Kareem was, you know,
still young, and you seen it with Muhammad Ali,
and a lot of guys, they were vocal
on these social justice issues
and, you know, just the Black everyday life issues.
[ bell clanging ]
ANNOUNCER: Oh, he's down from that right hand!
I don't know if he's gonna make this one.
MAN: He used to be named Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.
And his business was prizefighting.
As a fighter, he became, in my opinion
and certainly in his own,
the greatest.
At the age of 25 now, he calls himself Muhammad Ali,
and he's unemployed as a fighter.
His title is gone, ripped away by various
boxing commissions, in the name of patriotism.
There have been many questions put to me
why I refuse to be inducted
into the United States Army.
He lost the sport he loved to keep fighting
for not just himself but fighting
for the people who don't have voices.
When one man of popularity
can let the world know the problem,
he can-- he might lose a few dollars himself
telling the truth, might lose his life,
but he's helping millions.
But if I kept my mouth shut just because
I can make millions, and then this ain't doing nothing,
so I just love the freedom and the flesh and blood
of my people more so than I do the money.
IGUODALA: What'd they do to him? Shut off his voice,
and they've been telling us to shut up and-- and dribble
because they don't want to hear us talk.
SMITH: And you gotta recognize the fact that
people who are not on your side and are against you
and are looking to compromise everything you bring
to the table look at things that way.
They looked at it as players
not minding their business. They didn't get it.
MAN: I'm going to say something very clear
to all of the athletes out there.
We are interested in you entertaining us, period.
We don't care about your opinions.
Shut up and dribble.
You won't even stand up for me in America
for my religious beliefs, and you want me
to go somewhere and fight, but you won't even
stand up for me here at home.
MAN: Well, guess what, motherfucker.
I watched the NBA for years.
You won't get that goddamn money no more. I promise.
MAN: They're throwing balls around on a court,
but it's entertainment, right?
They're not doing anything worthwhile for the world.
MAN: Trying to spread a false message
about police brutality.
Black people are not getting hunted
by the police in this country.
TUCKER CARLSON: People go to sports as a refuge
from things like politics,
so why would you throw it in the face of viewers?
Like, what is the point of that?
MAN: They have made it clear to us that they hate this country.
Suppose every American-- Mr. Brown, suppose
every American had decided
that they were not gonna put on the uniform
of their country and not fight for us.
DEANS: You know, everyone-- especially every Black person--
knows that every time you expose your pain,
that comes at a cost, too.
Obviously, America is a terrible, horrible place
where you get to earn millions of dollars for playing
-a child's game. -How are you doing?
SHAPIRO: In front of adoring audiences.
WOMAN: He's un-American, and he doesn't deserve
to be in our country.
-All white-- all lives matter. -So that's--
he's really a sad, pathetic person.
MAN: I find nothing amusing or interesting
or tolerable about this man.
He's a simplistic fool and a pawn.
He's a disgrace to his country, his race,
and what he laughingly describes as his profession.
REPORTER: Michael Jordan, the only Black majority owner
in the NBA, has become a type of peace broker,
a voice of reason between players and team ownership.
He's urging other owners to listen.
KLEMPNER: It's a one-word answer
that Chris and Andre are looking for.
All right? You're coming out of this huddle,
and you're either in or you're out.
I was told that the Lakers, the Clippers,
they were willing to end the season.
ROBERTS: LeBron left, and his people left with him.
To make a decision of that type of magnitude
in about five or six hours is damn near impossible.
We're not playing until we get these benchmarks,
uh, accomplished.
But it-- even at that moment,
I could tell this was not the end.
REPORTER: ...a board of governors meeting
set for 11:00 a.m. tomorrow morning,
to get the owners talking and trying to--
trying to figure out a way, is there--
Can we still salvage this season and move forward?
♪
KLEMPNER: The next day, they got together.
And there was a plan.
RIVERS: You saw raw emotion at the top,
at the beginning, and then
all of a sudden, there was a calm.
But whatever we do,
we gonna be together, just know that.
ROBERTS: Then Chris and Andre announced...
We can have just as much leverage doing both,
you know, playing and speaking.
And are we all gonna play?
And Chris and Andre said,
"Yes, we are. We are all going to play."
And everyone looked over at the Lakers and...
...we all played.
If we're really gonna make a statement here,
if we're really gonna say we're fed up
about what's happening in our country,
if we're really gonna say we're not gonna be
your form of entertainment,
then you gotta stop playing basketball, period.
BEN SHAPIRO: ...that every time I turn on a basketball game,
I have to get a political commentary
from somebody who's spent five minutes studying the issue.
COMMENTATOR: You know, everybody in the Black community
was not proud with Muhammad Ali.
Because they said, hold on, wait a minute, bro,
oh, just 'cause you can box?
I had to go over there.
They drafted me. What makes you better than me?
MAN: For these guys to be in the bubble,
taken away from their kids, their family,
and then also looked to to change the world.
It's never gonna be as simple as, if we stop playing,
they're gonna stop killing us. It's not that.
♪
WIDMAN: So... great.
When I seen it, I was really proud of them.
But I-I'm like--
I was like, cool.
This is good. It's a good start.
But how long is it gonna last?
SMITH: If you don't do something exactly the way
folks think you should do it,
they measure your approach
before they even know the results.
PAUL: We didn't want to just have one moment thing
and then everything just go away.
We talked about it. We said, if we are gonna go play,
then it has to be bigger than a game.
KLEMPNER: The players decided that we were going to present
short-term and long-term initiatives.
We had to show that we were making
a real immediate impact
and also that there would be some lasting change.
REPORTER: We continue to follow news from the NBA
after players boycotted playoff games
over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
The league now agreeing to work with them
on social reforms; basketball arenas will be
converted into voting locations
to allow for safe, in-person voting on Election Day.
We started our Social Justice Coalition, right?
Which is more powerful than any name
on any jersey will ever be.
REPORTER: Focusing on civic engagement
and police and criminal justice reform.
2nd REPORTER: ...while the league will also promote
voting information through advertising during the playoffs.
MAN: A lot of people are saying this is not
a moment, this is a movement.
Back on the court, but with a promise.
CADOGAN: Our criminal justice complex needs reform,
but how can the NBA be involved from a policy standpoint?
3rd REPORTER: ...calling on the U.S. Senate
to finally pass the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act.
MALCOLM BROGDON: The players specifically had the leverage
to have pushed for legislation
on the local, state, and federal level.
I wish we-- we could have
dove a little bit deeper in, but that, you know,
we-we are where we are.
Players are doing their part, but they said
in a letter to Adam Silver that it should not be
the sole responsibility of the Black people,
the Black players that are hurting,
to be the voices of this.
People pass a lot of judgment about what we should do
or what we shouldn't do.
But I give our guys a lot of credit,
because they've been doing a hell of a job.
A hell of a job down here performing
and speaking on the different social injustice
that's going on day in and day out
while trying to be, uh, a great athlete,
while trying to be a great husband,
while trying to be a great father.
SPEARS: Felt like these dudes was trying to solve the world's problems
and-- and put the whole weight on the world on their back,
and that's not possible, man.
They're not gonna solve the world,
but you could incrementally make it a better place.
There's always more you can be doing,
but if everyone does a little, no one has to do a lot.
McGEE: I'm literally about to take a nap,
and I forgot...
I gotta take a COVID test, man.
[ sighing ]
Goddamn.
-[ chiming ] -[ distant chatter ]
-Perfect. I'm sorry. -[ laughing ]
Goddamn.
Waking up every morning realizing,
oh, you're still here.
It takes me about 15 minutes to say, okay, stop it.
You know, you got your health, you're good, you know, get up.
That first ten minutes is like, is this ever gonna end?
I just-- I just need to get the hell out of here.
REPORTER: Can you talk about what you meant
by being in a dark place?
It was just a little bit of everything.
Um... you know, I...
underestimated mental health, honestly.
I definitely take a-a call once a week
with my, uh, with my therapist now.
And, um, you know, sometimes there's really
nothing to talk about 'cause there's not much going on,
but it's still just an opportunity,
um, to have an outlet.
How does this thing work?
Oh, there we go.
My dad sent selfies! [ laughing ]
Of himself!
THYBULLE: For a lot of people, for myself especially,
through the pandemic
and the isolation of everything,
the thing that helped me the most get through it
was having family, even if it was distance.
[ over phone ] I was texting the whole family!
I'm talking the entire Thybulle clan, man!
-[ laughing ] -My phone is buzzing!
ALL: ♪ Happy birthday to you ♪♪♪
-[ cheering ] -And many more!
My fiancée, we should have been married in June,
but that got pushed back.
Now, I got my-- my first kid on the way.
So, any day now and any-any--
any hour now, I might get a call.
A lot of friends were like, well,
this is not a great time to have a-- to have a baby.
And I was like, you know, I'm always gonna
remember my first baby was born in a--
a world pandemic.
McGEE: Some people have come to visit.
I wonder who it could be.
Oh, there she is!
Hello, Gigi.
-Again! -You want to go again?
-Yeah. -Go ahead.
She's growing so fast,
so I-I did miss, like, at least
an inch and a half of her growth.
You got your hair braided-- you got your hair braided, girl?
-Yeah. -Yeah, I gotta have a kiss.
Okay, mwah.
You just definitely can't take it for granted.
The more we win, the longer we stay, uh, but it's all
worth it in the end because the--
it's an unbelievably satisfying feeling
to be able to be successful
and to be able to provide for your family,
do things for your family.
-There she is. -Hey.
My lovely new fiancée.
There's still a long ways to go, but we've come
a long ways since before I was born
to here now, and I've been lucky,
and I'm blessed to be a part of this
and be able to play and have the freedoms
I have now because of the people before me.
So I'm just trying to embrace that and trying
to do the same thing for my future
generation of kids, of grandkids, great-grandkids.
I mean, it's a sacrifice, but so many more people
have had to sacrifice so much more, uh, during this crisis.
We are so close to the end, but some of the players--
I mean, even when they have disappointing losses
in... in their games,
the first thing they'll say is, "At least I can go home."
Ready to go home? Happy to go home?
Little bit happy to go home, be back in my own bed.
At least I can go home.
Playoff time.
Win on three! One, two, three, win!
COMMENTATOR: And we are underway in the Orlando bubble.
Jamal Murray with a stroke of genius!
-[ buzzer ] -That'll do it.
The Boston Celtics move on by defeating the 76ers.
Back to Philly we go.
COMMENTATOR: They still need to score
even if Gallinari makes the bucket here--
And ball game over!
♪ Just a trick to smell her scent and try to sneak a touch ♪
♪ Oh, how I wish I could hold her hand... ♪
Missed the layup! Gobert got it!
Mitchell hanging at the other end!
Two seconds to go! They were that close.
ANNOUNCER: Utah, 78!
Nuggets, 80!
Everybody leaving, huh? Is that it? They leaving?
COMMENTATOR: As the Boston Celtics
will now leave the bubble.
All right.
-[ buzzer ] -COMMENTATOR: The best team
in the NBA, the Milwaukee Bucks, lose!
So long from Orlando!
♪ She keeps on passin' me by... ♪
COMMENTATOR: Trying to disrupt Rondo, he puts it in.
Here's Davis, for three and the win.
Oh, it's good!
The Lakers are headed back to the NBA Finals.
We are the last ones in the bubble. That's crazy.
I don't know. I think I was pretty lucky
to enter the league when I did.
Even though there were so many bad things happening
between the pandemic and the riots
and the protests.
And to now be a part of the NBA
that embodied so much more than basketball,
I think it's gonna be a huge part
of how I consider my legacy
or my mark on this game.
And to just be a part of the good that came of it.
[ laughing ]
-This is too much. -[ laughter ]
My God, you got...
This is your home, man,
this is where you belong, this is it.
There's no-- I've gotta go cancel all my plans.
THYBULLE: It's entirely too early to be thinking about this
or even trying to talk about it, but it just feels like
I need to be doing something that's contributing to help,
not just contributing to distract and entertain.
Oh, and quick question.
Are you registered to vote yet?
RIVERS: The moment we leave this bubble, we have a month
before the election, less than a month.
We got the polling stations open,
but our players have to go out to these polls.
This is one of those states that's a turning state.
Um, this can make or break the election.
REPORTER: One of their goals was to increase access
to voting locations during the pandemic.
Pro sports team owners agreed.
HANNAH-JONES: Forcing these owners
to become part of their communities and saying,
you're gonna open up these stadiums, uh, for voting.
We're not gonna see those long lines of people
not able to vote in the middle of COVID.
That type of activism did bear fruit.
Something we've never seen before, which was
allowed a lot of people who had never voted to vote.
You know, we knew how important that election was.
Um, obviously.
We want all voting to stop.
We don't want them to find any ballots
at 4:00 in the morning.
Americans already casting ballots in record numbers.
REPORTER: 70% of all the votes cast in 2016.
Big turnout from Black voters.
REPORTER: The voter turnout expected to break records.
Stop the count! Stop the count!
Stop the count!
[ electric razor buzzing ]
McGEE: Coach?
-What up, 'Vale? -I see you getting clean.
Oh, you know you gotta get fresh for that national TV.
That's true. That's true.
Dad, you strong.
Am I strong enough?
Yeah.
Who's the strongest man in the world?
You.
Okay, just making sure you know.
We've been locked in all season on one goal.
And we knew what we needed to do.
Uh, they know that what they're a part of
is something really historic,
and if they can successfully finish this,
right, if they can finish this,
who doesn't want to be a part of that?
MAN: Need to go, guys, need to go.
Bring it in.
Mamba on three-- one, two, three.
ALL: Mamba!
[ distant audience cheering ]
♪
SMITH: From the moment they arrived in the bubble,
over the course of 96 days,
not to have a single positive test--
what they pulled off, I think it saved sports.
Saved it.
Overall-- not just the league itself, all of sports.
[ buzzer ]
COMMENTATOR: And that's it, it's over.
This historic 2020 NBA championship
belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Lakers conquer the bubble,
and banner number 17...
LeBRON JAMES: As the NBA, as the NBPA,
all our players, everybody had a voice
on what's going on in America.
So, uh, we know we want to... we all want to see better days.
Um, and when we leave here, we gotta continue to push that.
Yeah!
Yeah! Yeah!
-Yeah! -Purple and gold! Yeah!
[ cheering ]
Four! Don't talk to me-- close the door over here,
man, because I'm about to get noisy...
[ cheering ]
[ fans chanting ]
[ fireworks booming ]
MAN: Yeah! Let's go!
[ sighing ]
2020.
Something good in 2020.
I'm gonna low-key miss it, though.
It's a weird thing to say.
I hated it, I hated the bubble,
but I'm gonna miss it.
It's part of the story, man. Crazy, man.
True blessings.
We're going home.
Uh, you know, we're going home.
REPORTER: There are the Lakers,
coming down the steps.
[ overlapping voices ]
We free! We free!
SPEARS: I'm sure they're fatigued.
I-I know they're tired. They want to go home.
They want to be around their family, their kids,
their homeys, everybody, and try to get back to normal,
but I hope they don't leave the fight in the bubble.
[ helicopter whirring ]
-LEADER: No justice! -CROWD: No peace!
-No justice! -No peace!
No justice!
-No peace! -No justice!
No peace!
No justice!
No peace!
No justice!
No peace!
-No justice! -No peace!
No justice!
No peace!
-No justice! -No peace!
REPORTER: And so, all eyes are on Minneapolis.
We now have...
AUSTIN: Accountability is something we need as people
to feel, uh, confident in the justice system.
LEADER: George Floyd!
-CROWD: George Floyd! -Say his name.
-George Floyd! -Say his name.
George Floyd!
-Say his name. -George Floyd!
CHAUNTYLL ALLEN: Accountability is just about
that one individual case.
Justice is when we change-- transform this whole system,
so that we can get democracy like everybody else.
Justice for all. Equality for all.
If we do that, we're good.
REPORTER: As we speak, a jury has decided
the fate of Derek Chauvin in his murder trial.
As far as the cops, we're not finna keep taking these hits
that they-- no, uh... no type of, you know,
repercussions or consequences coming their way.
-I am! -CROWD: I am!
-Somebody! I am! -Somebody!
MEL REEVES: Malcolm X said, if somebody stabs you
and you pull the knife out, he says, it's not quite justice.
You clean the wound, then you have justice.
MAN: Now we got about a couple minutes
before the verdict gets read, okay?
We gonna stick together,
and we ain't gonna stop until we get change.
JAY WEBB: And people say Derek Chauvin's on trial?
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
The U.S. Constitution is on trial.
You can't even get past "We the People."
We need to go back to "We the People"--
[ chuckling ] --and then get to the rest.
REPORTER: ...Derek Chauvin, and we know people are
waiting anxiously to hear that verdict.
MAN: All rise for the jury.
Members of the jury, I will now read the verdicts
as they will appear in the permanent records
of the Fourth Judicial District.
State of Minnesota, County of Hennepin,
District Court, Fourth Judicial District.
State of Minnesota, Plaintiff, versus
Derek Michael Chauvin, Defendant.
Verdict, Count One, Court File Number
27-CR-20-12646.
We, the jury, in the above-entitled matter,
as to Count One...
[ voice fading ]
[ indistinct chatter ]
-MAN: Guilty! -[ cheering ]
MAN: Thank you!
[ cheering, excited chatter ]
MAN: Guilty!
REPORTER: Guilty on all three counts.
Guilty, second-degree murder.
Guilty, third-degree murder.
Guilty, second-degree manslaughter.
You saw the former police officer there,
Derek Chauvin, handcuffed,
-he's going back into jail... -[ overlapping shouts ]
Guilty on all three counts.
CROWD: All three counts! All three counts!
One down, all the rest of the bad ones to go, man.
-Amazing. -[ laughing ]
The whole world should not have to rally to get justice
-for one man. -[ murmurs of agreement ]
-But that's what happened. -Amen.
This wasn't a city case, this wasn't one family's case.
This was the entire world's case.
I believe in small victories, and I think that
we as a collective have a lot of power.
GARRAWAY: They didn't do the right thing
because it was the right thing to do.
Because if that was true, they would have done it
for the rest of our families.
We had to force their hand.
-Chauvin! Chauvin! -CROWD: Guilty! Guilty!
-Chauvin! -Guilty!
BLAKE, SR.: And we're not going and asking for anything.
We're demanding.
You know, we're not asking for our place at the table.
We're kicking in the door and we're sitting down.
Somebody gotta get up.
Somebody's gotta get up.
♪
JONES: I don't think you can dismantle
a 400-year system in 40 days,
in four years, in 40 years, right?
And I-- and I think it's an insult to our ancestors
to say that much hasn't changed.
Much has changed.
[ faint chanting ]
JAYLEN BROWN: In the past, there's identified leaders that we've had.
[ voice muffled ]
Our leaders had been taken from us,
and I think that has kind of...
maybe slowed movements down or stifled them.
You don't change a country that was founded
on slavery and anti-blackness overnight.
But certainly, if you don't have
high-profile people like athletes
bringing attention to it, it's not going to change.
There are other athletes and other Black leaders,
period, who are using their positions
of power and influence to wield some practical progress.
We are looking out for the best interests
of Black people as a whole in this country.
MAN: I look at the African American
being oppressed in this country, and I don't stand for that.
KAEPERNICK: There is a lot of things that need to change.
The fact that it has blown up like this,
I think is a good thing.
ANNOUNCER: ...on helping change the culture of a sport
and the course of our nation.
For his lifetime of achievement
and for his principled service to mankind,
the United States honors Muhammad Ali.
JAYLEN BROWN: A lot of times, the critique on today's generation
is there is a lack of leadership.
Um, in this generation, there's not really
too many people that you can singularly identify
as the leader of these movements.
The fact that everybody is a part of it,
it's harder to pinpoint
exactly where all this energy is coming from.
And I think there's some brilliance behind that.
RIVERS: We had some strong leaders through our generations,
but it was only the best players that had a microphone.
Now, all the players have a microphone,
and they're using it.
-No justice! -CROWD: No peace!
-No justice! -No peace!
THYBULLE: I think it shook a lot of people's idea
of what the NBA was,
what, like, entertainers are, what athletes are.
And I think it gave us a better sense of...
what we are capable of when we all kinda come together.
McGEE: Yeah, we're in competition once we cross those lines
and we get on the court.
But just as brothers, we all came together
and-and really focused on just having each other's backs.
I'm just glad I got to be a part of it
in at least a minuscule way.
STERLING BROWN: I had to speak up at the time.
Really, that's that.
I'm not, you know, a revolutionary
or nothing like that, but I am a voice
for the have-nots because that's where I come from.
PAUL: I have to try to be a part of the change.
Even though, if I don't get an opportunity
to see it fully, then my kids understand it.
That's the whole play.
♪
HANNAH-JONES: Sports is important in America
for the same reason that sport is important in the world.
It does bring people together.
You know, you're in the stadium,
and it doesn't matter what the person next to you
does for a living, what the person next to you's race is,
you're all cheering on the same side.
But that's a superficial unity.
It is not enough to sit here and cheer together.
Are we gonna go out of the stadium
and actually live together?
♪
JAYLEN BROWN: I am a son.
I am a friend.
I am a student.
And I am an activist.
♪