Despite being just 24 years old, Brooklyn Nets center Nic Claxton is wise beyond his years and that maturity has allowed him to become a better basketball player and a better man. Comments that he made on Wednesday further prove how far along he has come in his overall development.
According to Dan Martin of the New York Post, Claxton said after practice on Wednesday that Thursday’s preseason game between Brooklyn and Maccabi Ra’anana shouldn’t be played. Maccabi Ra’anana is a professional basketball team based in Israel, a country that is currently going through a war.
Despite everything going on in Israel right now, Maccabi Ra’anana still wants to play Thursday’s game per Nets head coach Jacque Vaughn. Claxton said that Brooklyn talked amongst themselves about if they wanted to play the game given the circumstances and in short, they were okay with not playing the game.
Here’s more of what Claxton had to say about the situation as written by Martin:
“We feel for the players that we’re playing against. I don’t know if we should be playing the game. Personally, I don’t feel that we should be playing the game. But, we feel for them and we’re gonna go out there and do our job. There [are] bigger things going on in the world than basketball.”
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