On the flip side, count Houston Rockets guard Austin Rivers as someone who believes there’s no reason that playing should preclude NBA players from continuing to contribute to the progress being made.

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“Us coming back would be putting money in all our (NBA players) pockets,” Rivers wrote on Instagram. “With this money you could help out even more people and continue to give more importantly your time and energy to the [Black Lives Matter] movement. Which I’m 100 percent on board with. Because change needs to happen and injustice has been going on too long.”

There’s also Clippers guard Patrick Beverly, who made this point succinctly:

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I guess we’ll see how this will all play out, but the NBA has the real potential to look even more unrecognizable when it returns in July.