Welcome to Lockdown Warriors, your podcast on Alton Warriors, part of the Lockdown

Podcast Network.

I'm Wes Goldberg, Warriors writer for the Merchant News.

This is part five of our six-part series discussing race and justice reform in America

with former Warriors players over the last six decades.

I'm joined today by Brian Shaw, who grew up in Oakland and played for the Warriors in 1997,

then played for the Lakers for several years in the late 90s in early 2000s.

Brian, thanks for being on, and to get started, I want to know how you've dealt with not having sports in your life

over the last few months.

Well, I've watched a lot of hardwood classics and, you know,

throwback games, obviously.

The last dance, i think temporarily filled the gap for a lot of

people um including myself um but just also just keeping busy doing stuff around the house that

i wouldn't normally get to do um and the fact that, like I said, I just had hip replacement surgery a little about a month ago.

So just other things that just kept me occupied.

And then, you know, obviously not having sports was a big void.

And then that video of George Floyd's death comes out.

What was your initial reaction when you saw that and your reaction now to the protests that we're seeing?

My initial reaction is that, you know, it was just, it was just a sick feeling.

You know, you get sick and tired of, of seeing that, hearing about stuff like that happening.

And then too many times the officers kind of being, you know, not kind of being, but being let off the hook for doing what is essentially murder.

And how many times that, you know, I mean, obviously we have camera phones now, but, you know, how many of these

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