Kyrie Irving suggests players to skip NBA's Orlando return. He believes that the NBA’s return would provide people with a distraction from those protests. 

According to “Sports Illustrated”, On Friday, Nets guard Kyrie Irving reportedly led a conference call with over 80 fellow NBA players, including Chris Paul, Kevin Durant, Donovan Mitchell, Carmelo Anthony and Dwight Howard. On the call, Irving, who is expected to miss the rest of the season after undergoing shoulder surgery in February, expressed his opposition to the league's plan to resume the 2019-20 season in Orlando, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium.

"I don’t support going into Orlando," Irving reportedly said. "I’m not with the systematic racism and the bulls--t. Something smells a little fishy."

Charania reports that Irving also said he's "willing to give up everything" for social reform.

However, Lebron James doesn’t believe those things are mutually exclusive.

James believes he can play basketball and affect social change all at once, Amick reports.

“He wants to keep making his mark off the court. He wants to play basketball. And as has always been the case, he clearly believes he can do both at the same time.”

Also in the episode, Ginny Fuchs, U.S. Olympic boxer, won't face punishment for a positive drug test after officials say she accidentally ingested banned substances through sex.

According to TMZ,

USADA launched an investigation after tested positive for drugs and said it was all because she was having sex her boyfriend without protection.

Turns out she wasn't lying ... USADA officials say her positive sample did, in fact, come through intercourse.

“I had no idea that you could get contaminated through intimate contact," Fuchs said in an interview with Fox 26's Mark Berman. "And I've just learned a lesson about this now and I want other athletes to learn from my mistake."

Well, we didn’t know it’s possible but it looks like it is. So she will face no penalty for a positive drug test.

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