“Our league is more than basketball. Our players are more than just athletes. They are spokesmen. They are fathers. They are brothers. They are sons. They have opinions and they share in the fears that all of our community have,” Bickerstaff said Tuesday while recapping the coronavirus-impacted 2019-20 season. “We’ve had conversations with our guys about it, and they’ve verbalized it to us, both of the fear that they have of police interactions and the fear that they have of fitting the description. All of those things, as sad as it is, are still prevalent.