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NBA COMMISSIONER Adam Silver has backed players who wore T-shirts with “Enough” written on them, in the wake of last week’s bar shooting in California.
On Sunday, Los Angeles Lakers and Atlanta Hawks players repeated the gesture made by Los Angeles Clippers and Milwaukee Bucks players the previous night by wearing the T-shirts, which also featured the names of the 12 people killed last Wednesday when a gunman opened fire at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, about 40 miles away from Los Angeles.
“As I’ve always said, our players aren’t just ballplayers, they’re citizens,” Silver told US TV sports network ESPN after the Lakers-Hawks game at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles. “They have strong feelings about what’s happening in society and they react to them. I think this was something that was a groundswell within the league. It came from the players and it spread by word of mouth from one team to another.
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