It's been a challenge this week, Anthony Morrow will admit, to shift his focus to basketball.
As the Thunder guard prepares for the start of training camp, his attention is at least in part on his Charlotte, N.C., hometown. He left it for Oklahoma City the day before the city erupted in protest over the fatal police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.
“I don't even like watching the news,” Morrow said Friday at Thunder media day, admitting that he could not pull himself away from CNN this week. “I was just stuck, like, ‘I can't believe this is happening in Charlotte, downtown.