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00:10 Hey LeBron, you've been fighting for social justice for a long time now.
00:35 Do you feel like this is a unique opportunity?
00:38 Being in the bubble with this being a topic of conversation to really
00:42 affect change right now?
00:44 >> For me personally or you think for our league?
00:47 >> For society as a whole, for you and for other players to be able to influence change.
00:52 >> I don't know Melissa.
00:53 I mean, I don't wake up and say, okay,
00:59 let's use the bubble as an opportunity to speak about us as people of color.
01:05 It's just what I am, it's who I am, it's what I stand for.
01:08 I got three black kids at home, my black wife is at home.
01:13 My mother is black, come from a single parent household.
01:16 I'm the only child.
01:17 So, excuse me, but no, I didn't need this bubble to speak about what I'm about.
01:25 That's who I am.
01:26 But I think the greatest thing that could come out of this is guys in this bubble,
01:30 guys that may not or may be scared at points in time to speak about things
01:34 that because they feel like it may affect how people view them or affect a certain situation.
01:41 They say, okay, well, I'm not LeBron.
01:43 I don't have that.
01:44 I can't do that.
01:45 That's not, you know, he can go up there and say that it might affect, you know,
01:48 something going on in my livelihood.
01:50 But, you know, this opportunity is giving guys a really truly just be like, okay,
01:55 it's not because it's a time where we are being heard.
02:01 Either if you really care or not, we're being heard.
02:04 And that's what's most important.