He was asked a basketball question but Kyle Lowry’s mind was elsewhere, like so many of us on Wednesday night.
It was about 11 hours since the world came to a record-scratching stop and looked on in disbelief at what it was seeing in Washington, DC. Protestors turning into insurgents, forcing their way into the U.S. Capitol building, determined to stop the electoral college from certifying president-elect Joe Biden’s November victory at the polls.
“Honestly, basketball doesn’t matter,” Lowry said.
“What occurred on Capitol Hill disturbed me. The fact that people were allowed to basically rush in and take over a federal building without any type of.