“I told them I was vulnerable,” Pierce said on this week’s “Hoops, Adjacent’ podcast. “I told them I was having a lot of issues during the week of the George Floyd incident, and the Amy Cooper incident. And I said, but my passion right now is I care about you guys. I care about my daughter. I care about myself. And I care about addressing this issue. And I’m passionate about it, and that’s all I’ve been focused on.