Raja Bell

I, Jerry and I had a conversation about it.

He was like, no, do what you do.

Not an issue.

I had never had a problem anywhere.

I went, this was mid season, like out of the blue, I get called into an office to talk to our new head coach about why I'm not out there for a national anthem.

And now he'd been on the staff with Jerry.

So he already knows why I'm not back there.

Cause I didn't done it for 25, 30 games.

And you were there the year before when I did it, but he went about to make it his mission and let me know that's not going anymore.

You're coming out.

Fine.

Not a problem.

Halftime comes, you're walking by, most arenas have a family room, right?

Now, in some arenas, they're not accessible to you as you walk to the court because they're kind of off in the cut, right?

As it was, Utah's was directly in the path of you walking back to the court.

So my little dudes were like, Dia was...

pre-K and Ty was probably like two and we had just had Zen.

Zen was a baby.

So, you know, I would go in, boom, as we're passing, been to the meeting, been to the halftime speech, going in, give my wife a kiss, give my little boys a kiss, go back out to the court and warm up.

Done it for my whole career.