Golden State Warriors star Draymond Green offered a message early Thursday to those who say sports can be put on the backburner for social justice issues. NBA PLAYERS' STRIKE OVER JACOB BLAKE SHOOTING FOLLOWS BILL RUSSELL'S LEAD IN 1961 AND CRAIG HODGES' NEAR-BOYCOTT IN 1991“But why can sports wait? But you say basketball can wait... Is it because sports(the platform) has afforded the athletes involved such huge platforms? Or maybe the athletes involved past and present actually afforded sports those platforms, that the many athletes currently have today(that’s neither here nor there),” Green wrote. Athletes stand with the people, no secret there, but to actually tell athletes to stop doing what provides that platform to speak for the people is actually counterproductive.

Source: Fox News August 27, 2020 16:41 UTC