Derrick Favors grew up in the same …

Derrick Favors grew up in the same neighborhood in which Rayshard Brooks was fatally shot. He knew the same people. Although he’s never indulged, he remembers when the Wendy’s was built. He became a basketball savant in the same streets. He knows that instead of an NBA star, he could have been Brooks, the 27 year-old black man who was recently shot and killed as he was running from police who tried to arrest him for public intoxication. Favors could have been a statistic. Favors could have become a Twitter hashtag. That’s why it was personal.