NBA star LeBron James and other L.A. Lakers players LeBron James stood in front of a Lakers backdrop in the NBA’s bubble near Orlando, Fla., after his first game of the season restart back in July, listening to a question asked thousands of miles away from Los Angeles: What had he hoped to accomplish? The Lakers star answer revealed less about the evening’s exhibition and more about what he and the NBA hoped to accomplish in the next three months. “First of all,” James began, “I want to continue to shed light on justice for Breonna Taylor and to her family and everything that’s going on with that situation.” For the next 13 minutes, James called for Louisville police officers to be arrested in the death of Taylor, a 26-year-old emergency medical technician killed when officers entered her home on a “no-knock” warrant as she slept. He discussed Black Lives Matter and the change he wanted to see in America. Basketball barely was broached. Just as his answers reflected the fraught backdrop — the combination of a pandemic and a national reckoning on racism — in the bubble, James also foreshadowed the way players and coaches would spend the […]

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