Inside the NBA's Response to Another Tragic Week in America

NBA players took a knee Wednesday, and if your immediate reaction is outrage, please, just stop reading. In Miami, the Heat and Celtics kneeled during the national anthem. In Milwaukee, the Bucks and Pistons went through with the opening tip, knocked the ball out of bounds and kneeled as one on the Fiserv Forum floor.

America is on fire—again—and NBA players found themselves—again—in a position where they needed to respond. A day after prosecutors in Kenosha, Wis., elected not to file charges against the police officers who shot Jacob Blake, thousands of domestic terrorists swarmed the Capitol building in DC. Some carried flags. Others guns. They broke windows, vandalized offices and forced…