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00:00I'm Jill Painter-Lopez for Sports Illustrated, joined by Melissa Roland.
00:06And Melissa, Drew Brees made some comments today in an interview about how he will never
00:11understand kneeling during the National Anthem.
00:14LeBron James very strongly weighed in on this.
00:17What did he say?
00:18Drew Brees, in an interview with Yahoo Finance, essentially said that he's staunchly against
00:24NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem.
00:27He said that he's staunchly against anybody disrespecting the flag, and he pointed to
00:30the fact that he has two grandfathers who fought for World War II.
00:34He said whenever he hears the anthem, he thinks about them, and he's often moved to tears.
00:39LeBron James responded.
00:40He was stunned.
00:41He said, I can't believe you're still missing the point of why players kneel.
00:46He said it's absolutely not meant to be any disrespect to servicemen.
00:50He said it's just peaceful, a peaceful protest against police brutality and racial inequality.
00:57He said he was stunned that Drew Brees is still maintaining his position that he's against
01:01that form of a protest.
01:03Still going to be an ongoing issue with this.
01:05Thanks, Melissa.

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