Utah Jazz Ed Davis wants basketball back.
He made this clear in his conversation with Alex Kennedy of USA Today SMG’s HoopsHype.
Davis has also ‘always been for’ the Black Lives Matter movement. However, the former Brooklyn Nets big man does not agree with Kyrie Irving and Dwight Howard‘s approach.
And Davis made it clear how he felt about the Nets point guard and Los Angeles Lakers center’s idea that the NBA shouldn’t try to resume the 2019-20 season at Disney World in Orlando now that the movement has the attention of the nation:
It’s easy for a guy like Kyrie to say that he’ll give everything back [for social reform], but would he really give everything back? It’s easy for Dwight Howard to say that we don’t need to play when he’s in Atlanta in his $20 million mansion. But there are other guys on the rosters who need this money to provide for whoever they’re taking care of and things like that. It’s easy for the superstars in the league to say this and how they feel about this and that. But it means a lot more when it comes from the role players and the guys that [aren’t stars]. There are so many different perspectives because there are so many different levels in the NBA. Like I said, it’s so easy for the superstars to say, ‘Let’s just not play,’ and they’re good. But some guys can’t just do that. There are lives on the line and, like I said, generational wealth on the line. These are the hits that we’re going to take if we don’t play.
Davis’ emphasis on generational wealth is one current Nets wing Garrett Temple has touched on in his support of continuing 2019-20, too. Before reports of Irving’s stance surfaced, Temple tried to illustrate to his colleagues why it’s important they continue the 2019-20 season (the novel coronavirus pandemic permitting).
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