“The background is the Brooklyn Nets and the NBA,” said Tsai when asked about his commitment. “Since the killing of George Floyd, I think the country has been thrown into kind of a turmoil. The teams and the team owners and the players have kind of felt this very strongly. The fact is with the NBA we have a league where our elite players, our stars, are 70 to 80 percent black. and this is very, very personal to our players and by extension, when we have our conversations with our players, I started to realize that the issue of racial injustice is a deep-rooted problem with 400+ years of history that you can’t solve overnight but you have to face it like directly. You have to face it now. You have to have that conversation. You can’t skirt it.”