Danny Green On Dwight Howard: `I Think He’ll Be With Us’

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

00:06 Avery Bradley opting out of the Lakers season.

00:09 All eyes are now on Dwight Howard.

00:11 What's the latest news around what he's going to do?

00:14 Well Melissa, Danny Green has said that he has talked to him.

00:18 He said this on the in the green room podcast and he said, you know what I told him like

00:22 his family, we love him.

00:23 We'll support him no matter what he does.

00:24 But he said, we certainly told him we need him and we want him with us.

00:28 Now Dwight Howard obviously has a lot of concerns beyond basketball and one of those is his

00:33 family and another concern of course is which he spoke about earlier in the pandemic was

00:38 he said, you know, I don't want basketball to be a distraction.

00:41 I don't want these games to be a distraction from the cause.

00:44 You know, among this protest after the George Floyd murder, he wants so much to be done

00:49 in terms of police brutality, racism, etc.

00:51 And he doesn't want that to end.

00:53 Now Danny Green did said, I think he will be with us.

00:56 But of course that decision is looming today and Avery Bradley already has opted out.