Welcome to the Athletic NBA show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network.

And welcome to another just enough hoops adjacent on the Athletic NBA show, David Aldridge.

I'm back.

I'm back because Waz damn near Wally Pipped me last week with the hosting, him and the mean killed it. So I had to

get back on the mic before they take my show. What's up, boss? I'm good, man. I'm good. I'm happy

to hear your voice, brother. Man, it's good to hear you too, man. I want to talk, man. I know we're

going to bring Rich Hoffman in in a second from the

athletic Philadelphia to talk about that, that the latest iteration of the train wreck that is

the 76ers and everything that they're doing. But at some point during this show, man, I'm so,

I must tell you, Wise, I'm so pissed off this morning. I don't even know what to do. I don't know. Something

broken me watching that video, this latest video. Something broken me. I don't know. Not that I wasn't

furious when George Floyd was killed. I wasn't furious when Brianna Taylor was killed. I don't know.

There was just something about this. And I think you can hear from the players. George,

George Hill said it yesterday. Fred Van Vleet reportedly, we're taping on Tuesday, said it today

after practice. The guys are, The guys are fed up, man,

and this kneeling stuff is all well and good and the Black Lives Matter on the floor is all

well and good. But this shit's not changing, man. It's not changing. And it's getting to the point

where you have to do something to shake people up to get them out of their

kind of torpor, you know, a slogan is not policy. You know what I'm saying? And so something's got

to change on the real tip that it has to change now because we just, we can't keep having this.

We can't keep having this, these excuses.

Oh, he had a knife.

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