“There was a call that Kyrie Irving led, Chris Paul led a lot of calls … the NBPA, the NBA. A lot of negotiations had to take place,” Brogdon said Tuesday on a Zoom call with reporters. “In my mind, there was a point in which early, early on, I was like, ‘Does it make sense to sit out? Does it make sense to play?’ You always try to figure out that battle, but this is the conclusion I came to: Playing allows you to amplify your platform. It allows people to continue to focus on you, and by focusing on you, they’re indirectly going to focus on whatever you’re saying to the media.”