![\"Image](\"https:\/\/i.kinja-img.com\/gawker-media\/image\/upload\/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_80,pg_1,q_80,w_80\/93e315615f506ff9506786ba61713354.jpg)
<\/div>\n<\/span><\/p>\n
<\/figure>\n Every week in the past tonight I sat right here and wrote about<\/a><\/span> why I didn\u2019t wish to contact on the Memphis Grizzlies getting right into a verbal altercation with Shannon Sharpe throughout a recreation towards the Los Angeles Lakers. The level of that article was as an instance why it\u2019s vital to remain present on points that really matter. Case and level, that very same Grizzlies crew spent this Friday evening not preventing with FS1 personalities, however battling to seek out the motivation to play Minnesota amid the whole lot taking place in Memphis with Tyre Nichols.<\/p>\n Ja Morant and Co. misplaced once more, going 0-for on their five-game highway journey, and anyone looking for solace in sports activities after one other mindless killing of a Black man by the hands of police<\/a><\/span> discovered no quarter. Looking to athletes and popular culture icons for steerage was groundbreaking and culture-shifting within the \u201960s and \u201970s. You know, earlier than the novelty wore off. <\/p>\n Now, gamers and organizations talking out<\/a><\/span> is as regular as police brutality and public slaughter. California noticed three mass shootings in 44 hours this week that left 19 folks useless<\/a><\/span>, together with one in Oakland, the place the Golden State Warriors used to play. <\/p>\n It\u2019s unclear whether or not they held a second of silence earlier than the sport, but when they did, was the pause honoring Nichols or the victims of the shootings? The crew\u2019s Twitter account retweeted the NBA\u2019s assertion on Nichols, and truthfully, I\u2019m past uninterested in monitoring down bereavement responses. <\/p>\n