This is the basketball buds.

But I can only say it may not be for everyone.

I mean, it will entail enormous sacrifice on behalf of those players and for everyone involved, coaches the referees listen it's not an

ideal situation we're we're trying to find a way to our own normal in the middle of

a pandemic in the middle of a pandemic, in the middle of essentially a recession or worse with

40 million unemployed and now with enormous social unrest in the country.

And so as we work through these issues,

I can understand how some players may feel that it's not for them.

And as you said, it could be for a host of reasons, it may be for family reasons, it could be for a host of reasons it may be for family reasons it may be for

health reasons they have or it may be because they feel as some players have said

very recently that their time is best spent elsewhere.

Welcome to the Basket Buds edition of the Back to Back Podcast and the Athletic

Podcast network network I'm

Zach Harper today joined by Wozney Lambre our cultural anthropologist we have

Jay King we have Fred Katz Jade Hoi's pushing buttons and gentlemen we have a good message from certain players in the

Players Association and the wrong messengers because Dwight Howard and

Kyrie Ervern are 100% doing the right thing, whether it's standing up for social justice

and making sure that message is met properly and delivered properly during this time,

whether that's looking out for player health during the COVID-19 crisis

and pandemic in this country as cases continue to rise, especially in Florida, where they're

going to be put in the pseudo bubble, whether it's trying to get certain adult beverages to be free at the Walt Disney World Resort.

Whatever it is, Waz, Kyrie and Dwight are correct in this.

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