“It’s bigger than basketball,” Jayson Tatum said alongside teammate Jaylen Brown. After a day that saw the Kenosha County district attorney announce that no charges would be made against the police officers that shot Jacob Blake back in August and protesters storm the Capitol in Washington D.C., the two Boston stars stood side by side, united in their efforts for social change. “
Forget the outcome between the Celtics and Heat. Yesterday’s events “weighed heavy on (their) hearts” and playing in a basketball game was secondary.
Before tip off in front of a nationally televised ESPN audience, both teams walked off the floor in a players’ only meeting to discuss whether or not they’d play the game and later kneeled for the national anthem.