“It definitely put me in a different place because we just started talking about stuff that’s always been going on,” Durant said.
“It was really out of nowhere ... He shocked everybody by doing that.
“You just see he touched something in people that we didn’t know was there,” Durant said. “I posted a picture of him on my Instagram, and the comments under that were ridiculous.
“So he kind of touched a nerve and the outrage from it made me a fan of him just because he decided to take all that on ...”
Kaepernick has been unemployed this season despite injuries at other teams that have created job openings. Some experts attribute his political activism as the key reason teams are wary of signing him.
He opted out of his contract with the 49ers in the offseason but has said his agent reached out to all 32 teams to make sure they were aware of his interest in playing this season.
The protests began in 2016 when Kaepernick began sitting and later kneeling during the anthem to call attention to the killing by police of unarmed black men and boys across the United States, as well as racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
- Basketball: Kaepernick protests 'touched a nerve', says Durant, Reuters, November 28, 2017.
3. Billy Bush is reentering the public eye, and he’s starting by sending a message to President Trump. “Yes, Donald Trump, You Said That” is the headline of Bush’s op-ed for The New York Times.
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