"Keep calm and play ball." That's what some people tell me when I use my NBA platform to speak out against Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, the place I grew up and where my family still lives. The advice I prefer comes from Colin Kaepernick's Nike ad campaign: "Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything."
On Thursday, I won't be able to go to work when my team, the New York Knicks, plays the Washington Wizards in London. It is altogether too risky. Erdogan uses Interpol, the international law-enforcement organization with 194 member nations, as a tool for having his critics arrested in other countries.