Kawhi Leonard and LeBron James were willing to walk away from the NBA season
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00:00In the month of August, we were really close to seeing the NBA season come to a halt.
00:06And by halt, I mean completely canceled, because it already did come to a halt when players
00:09began a historic strike after the shooting of Jacob Blake.
00:13Now what was most interesting about it was the fact that Kawhi Leonard and LeBron James
00:18led the charge in stopping the season.
00:20They were two of the players that were reportedly willing to walk out on the season.
00:25And Adam Silver family spoke about the big kind of pivotal moment on CNN.
00:30He said, I spoke to both players and I think there was a lot of emotion, initial decision
00:34to stop play.
00:35However, after a day or so about, you know, getting cooler heads ready, both players were
00:41ready to resume the season.
00:43And LeBron in particular reached out to former President Obama and try to figure out a plan
00:47of action, which Obama recommended that he uses his platform to have something even bigger
00:54to talk about than before.
00:55Now, it's interesting because those are the two teams that were favorited to win the NBA
00:59championship at the time.
01:01And to see them be passionate enough to kind of be willing to stop the season speaks volumes
01:05about their character.