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00:00I'm Jill Painter-Lopez for Sports Illustrated, joined by Melissa Rowland.
00:08And Melissa, the NBA returning is certainly a sticking point among certain players that
00:13Patrick Beverly said he knows how it's all going to go down.
00:16What did he tweet?
00:18Patrick Beverly tweeted that whatever LeBron James decides to do, if LeBron James says
00:22we're playing, he said we're playing.
00:26This happened on the heels of, there was a phone call on Friday among about 80 NBA players.
00:31It was led by Kyrie Irving, and he was encouraging the players not to play.
00:37He was saying that basketball would distract from all the momentum gained in the Black
00:42Lives Matter movement, and he didn't want to be entertainment right now for people.
00:49So there's one camp that's saying we shouldn't play, and there's one camp that's saying let's
00:53use our giant platform to further the movement while we play.
00:57But Patrick Beverly said ultimately what it's going to come down to is whatever LeBron James
01:01says.