In a tweet Thursday, Wayne Ellington joined many of his NBA colleagues in supporting President Obama's call for new gun control measures ...
I'm with @POTUS and his action to make our communities safer from gun violence. #StopGunViolence #PowerofWE
— Wayne Ellington (@WayneElli22) January 8, 2016
But unlike his colleagues, for Ellington, it was highly personal. Ellington’s father, Wayne Ellington Sr., was shot in the head while sitting in his red Oldsmobile on a Philadelphia street in November 2014.