Happy Friday, Greenlight Pod. I'm your host Chris Long. This is one that doesn't need a lot of introduction. I got Steve Kerr.

If you don't know who Steve Kerr is, you don't do sports, or you don't do championships.

He's won plenty of them, eight of them to be exact in the NBA as a player in a coach, and there's a little plot twist here when it comes to myself and Steve.

We are linked forever after a jet ski ride in the 90s. We'll get to that and more.

So I just want to hit some heavy stuff before we get Steve Kerr. I know I touched from this last pod. You might have to sit through two pods in a row.

It's been a weird week to talk about sports. I'm excited to have Steve on and we'll certainly hit the heavy stuff as well.

On the tail end, maybe if we get to it, he's really outspoken and is not afraid to grapple with subjects like equality or police brutality.

The George Floyd thing has been tough. The imagery, the video, the reality that those police officers, not just the one who committed the heinous act of murdering George Floyd in broad daylight,

is sitting at his house right now. I assume he's going to be charged relatively soon, but that guy should be in handcuffs already.

It's been a hard week and all those guys that stood by and allowed that to happen in uniform should be ashamed themselves and they should be charged with those crimes.

This has been a tough week. The bandaid just keeps getting ripped off. The bandaid needs to be ripped off.

Again, let me reiterate, this is nothing new. This is just we have cell phones now. When you look at an officer like the guy who killed George Floyd, you look back at his track record the last 10, 12 years, he's done a number of questionable, awful things.

It seems and has not been reprimanded very much. I think that we see this often when it comes to these cases where an officer has not answered.

If we're believing the bad apple thing, those bad apples are not being picked. They're not being plucked. Eventually, it leads to this and we say, oh, shit, why don't we see this coming?

Because there's no accountability. I think that's why people have trouble trusting the police as an institution.

So this bandaid needs to be ripped off. Not only do I want to see as a citizen of this country, the good cops that we keep hearing about, who I know a few of them speak out on this stuff.

But we need athletes to talk about this stuff. We need white voices. We need people to stand together right now and be on the same team on this thing and just call it what it is.

In sports, for whatever reason, there aren't a ton of white athletes who feel comfortable doing that.

Now, I've played with a number of guys that I've talked about this stuff with at lunch tables in the cafeteria or at the practice field.

The locker room in the NFL is a sacred place. There's some wonderful conversations that elicit real growth that go on between players of different backgrounds.

But a lot of times, I found myself late in my career talking to other white players and they say, yeah, how do you feel comfortable doing what you do? It seems like a mind field. It's tough. It's a tough task to speak on this stuff.

But again, lean on a teammate, lean on a friend that knows what it feels like to not look like us and get some guidance on maybe how you might be of assistance.

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