There’s something to be said about the public perception of a professional athlete in any major sport. When it comes to the NBA, we sit down, turn on the TV and watch a bunch of people making millions of dollars dribble and shoot a basketball. When they do good, we cheer. When they disappoint, we shred, rend our garments.
What we often forget is that there’s a person behind the basketball player, behind the millionaire and all the glitz and glamour that comes with it. There are problems they deal with just like regular people. There are things going on in their lives that we don’t get to see on TV but that they have to deal with.