Earlier this month, Dwight Howard made the decision to join the Los Angeles Lakers in Orlando, where he’ll have the opportunity to compete for his first-ever NBA championship and use his platform to speak out against social injustice and police brutality, the latter of which is of utmost importance to him — so much so that he almost didn’t rejoin his team due to concerns that basketball would distract from the ongoing civil rights movement.
While that could still be true, Howard is doing his part to make sure it won’t be.