George Hill: Going to Bubble Took Focus Off Social Justice Issues

data-mm-id=”_td2m0pr78″>The NBA Bubble was created to help bring back basketball in the midst of a global pandemic. But for the players participating, it also represented an opportunity to call attention to issues of social justice in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. In the month since arriving in Orlando, players from all teams have used this platform to call for justice for Breonna Taylor and draw the spotlight to the various issues that plague this country and affect them in ways few can understand. On Sunday, an unarmed black man named Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The video circulated social media and led to another outbreak of widespread protests against institutional racism and police brutality against the black community. T…