I was essentially making “respectability Black” arguments: accepting the premise that to succeed in a white world, I had to look like they wanted me to look. Joy was telling me to not play ...

White said that his joy had been taken and that he was no longer enjoying basketball as much as he used to. “I don’t know, I would just go into the arena and I just didn’t have the same ...

“I don’t know, I would just go into the arena and I just didn’t have the same amount of joy and my energy kind of affected it,” White said at practice on Saturday. “I think that’s just ...