The Miami Heat held a town hall with players on Juneteenth to discuss recent unrest in the country surrounding racism and police brutality.
Jimmy Butler recounted an experience when he was 16 years old. He and his brother walked out of a Walmart in suburban Houston and saw a white man and his son, he said. The son, who Butler said was no more than six years old, said, “Hey Dad, those are those [n-words] you are telling me about.”
Goran Dragic, who is Slovenian, said that, “Right now, if I’m honest, I’m not comfortable with this meeting because I don’t know what to say because I’m coming from a different part of the world.