George Hill was trying to explain and couldn’t get through the emotion of the words. He was sitting in his car, participating in a Zoom…
George Hill was trying to explain and couldn’t get through the emotion of the words.
He was sitting in his car, participating in a Zoom panel Friday morning on the state of Black America, along with other athletes and coaches from the Indianapolis area, talking about George Floyd and police brutality. It’s a deeply personal subject for him.
Last year about this time, a cousin of his was shot 16 times, Hill said — three times in the head. Things had been starting to turn around in his cousin’s life, Hill said. He’d stayed out of trouble. He had gotten a job and opened up a bank account, was planning to move to Texas, Hill said. Didn’t matter.
« Cops did not care about the situation, » Hill said.
Hill has interracial children. He grew up in Indianapolis and started at point guard for the Pacers. Now he plays for the Milwaukee Bucks — and he’s scared to come home.
Why does Hill want to speak up right now? Why won’t he « shut up and dribble, » as journalist Laura Ingraham told LeBron James to do in 2018 when he spoke about politics.
“Some may be different to others based off of situations that they experienced in their life, but there’s no amount of money that can get me to just shut up and dribble, » Hill said.
