The Boston Celtics and Miami Heat met together before their scheduled game tonight, formulating a response to today’s riots at the U.S. Capitol Building and corresponding treatment of protesters for the Black Lives Matter movement in the spring and summer of 2020. Both teams took the court for the start of the game, but they knelt during the national anthem and released a joint statement explaining their stance against injustice.
The text of the statement for those reading on small screens:
2021 is a new year, but some things have not changed.