Long Island Nets’ Justin Anderson among players involved in peaceful protest

Boston’s Jaylen Brown and Indiana’s Malcolm Brogdon are among the NBA players who’ve taken part in the recent peaceful protests in the U.S.

As protests broke out across the country in response to the wrongful death of George Floyd and others, some NBA players have gotten involved.

Celtics wing Jaylen Brown drove 15 hours from Boston down to Georgia, calling for the protest he would take part in to be peaceful:

Being a celebrity, being an NBA player, don’t exclude me from no conversations at all. First and foremost, I’m a black man and I’m a member of this community. … We’re raising awareness for some of the injustices that we’ve been seeing. It’s not OK.

Indiana guard Malcolm Brogdon followed Brown’s lead in the cause, as has Long Island Nets forward Justin Anderson, according to Tim Bontemps of ESPN.

Among others who are doing their part is Spurs guard Lonnie Walker IV, who helped clean up buildings in San Antonio that had been tagged with graffiti.

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