Asked to reflect on the past two weeks …

Asked to reflect on the past two weeks of tragedy and global unrest in NBC Sports Chicago’s “Race in America: A Candid Conversation” panel, Bulls forward Thad Young described a spectrum of emotion. Heaviness. Sadness. Anger. And — as a Black man and father of two sons — fear. “It’s definitely been heavy,” Young said on the panel. “But for me, it’s also scary from a standpoint of, I have two boys to worry about, ages six and nine. It’s just very, very tough to have to see that and then also have to explain that to my kids or explain to them that, ‘Hey, there’s some things that you can’t do that other people can do.’