John Thomas: If the coronavirus never happened, if the NBA playoffs were still going and all sports were happening as normal, I guarantee the killing of George Floyd would have been swept under the rug like all the other killings and we never would have taken such a strong stance. So in getting closer with my family, my colleagues, my community, and by having such a passionate stance around issues like this—and even realizing that I, like so many others, was ultimately a part of the problem not due to wanting to be but due to the busyness of our lives—it caused us all to take pause and I’m very thankful. If you think about our Earth as a whole, it got a chance to breathe a little bit with cars not being on the road and humans damaging the world like we do. It was the best thing that happened. And in my lifetime, I’m certainly glad that it’s here. I don’t want to take away or marginalize those that were sick and suffered. And certainly my heart goes out to those that lost loved ones. I don’t want to take that away, but when you think about the medical picture of what this means to society, the timing was right.