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

And welcome to another distant of Hoopes adjacent on the athletic NBA show, David Aldridge. I'm back because Waz damn near Wally Pippme 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, Oz? I'm good, 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 why I'm so, I'm so, I'm must tell you why's,

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 man something broken me I don't

know not that I don't know. Not that I wasn't furious when when George Floyd was killed. I wasn't furious

when Brianna Taylor was killed was killed. I don't know. There was just something about this and I think you can hear

it from the players. George Hill said it

reportedly we're taping on Tuesday said it today after practice.

The guys are the guys are fed up man and this kneel and stuff is all well and good and the black lives matter on the floor is all well and good but this just not changing man it's not changing and it's 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 you just we can't keep having this.

We can't keep having these excuses. Oh he had a knife, oh he was wrestling with the cops so they had every right to shoot

him seven times in the back. That's bullshit and I'm tired of it. And then we need to do something now to change this this paradigm that we have in this

country that a quote unquote officer involved shooting is always justified.

Yeah there needs to be consequences.

You know, that's the problem here.

It's like, like you said, it's great to paint slogans on the street and to kneel and to hold hands and do the kumbaya thing and that's great. I'm not somebody who's going to poo poo-poo symbolic gestures. You know, it's important that we do you know we do those as well but

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