The NBA alerted America to the extreme seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic when the league suddenly and shockingly suspended its season on March 11.
More than four months later, when the NBA resumes play in Orlando on July 31, you better believe the most colorblind sports league in the world is going to alert Americans about the seriousness of another pandemic; a social pandemic — a 400-year-old American disease known as racial injustice.
The worldwide protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death have started to die down, but the NBA as a league and the Orlando Magic as a franchise are vowing not to let the national discussion die out.