Report: NBA To Paint `Black Lives Matter’ On Courts In Orlando

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00:00 I'm Melissa Roland with Sports Illustrated and we're here with Jill Painter-Lopez.

00:07 Now heading into the bubble near Orlando, the NBA is going to be doing some unique stuff

00:11 this season to raise awareness around social justice.

00:14 What are some of the things that they're going to be doing?

00:17 Well, Melissa, one of the big things that they plan on doing, according to an ESPN report,

00:22 is writing Black Lives Matter on the basketball courts in which they will be playing games.

00:26 And as we know, a lot of eyeballs will be on these games, not only here but globally.

00:31 So that will be a big deal for players.

00:33 And Laker Jared Dudley retweeted a story about that and used fire emojis and the hashtag

00:38 BLM.

00:40 Certainly other things that they are looking at and working out the details on are messaging

00:44 on players' jerseys.

00:46 And we know NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has already said he would like to certainly work

00:51 with players and help them as they try and promote their messaging from all that has

00:55 happened in the wake of George Floyd's murder, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others as players

01:00 work with these.

01:01 Now, some players, as we know, have expressed their feelings that restarting the season

01:06 could hurt those efforts.

01:08 But certainly the NBA is looking at trying to make sure they help all these players so

01:13 that they know, even if they are resuming play in Orlando, that the messaging is not