Raja Bell

So like I go in the back.

Yeah, I drank a lot of coffee.

Right.

But like it turned into my habit where I would be back there and and, you know, just come out after the anthem was over.

Jerry Sloan had no problem with that.

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.