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please welcome bomani jones. bomani, you had me at hello. first of all, hello.sode you say that player empowerment hasn't been defined. what's your definition? >> does it exist the way we think about it? after lebron makes the move to go to miami -- there was a lot around the decision. after there was such a backlash, there was a move to say it was empowerment. it's players taking control. what happened was lebron was playing for cleveland and the management wasn't good and he realized he wasn't going to win. he called dwyane wade and say how about i go to miami? the miami franchise said, this is a great idea. how much of that is power? he worked out a contract. he signed to go somewhere else to play. in the midst of the backlash, there was a need for people to make that more of a revolutionary action than it was. it just made people mad. >> you were saying the bar was set low before that and that's why it seemed so different to people. why wasn't this something we saw previously? >> because people thought -- especially with free agency. the concept of free agen

you have bomani jones, you have sarah spain, you have kate fagan. so what y'all were experiencing, which is my new book, white fear, how the browns and i randomly play mine. and that's that's what it is. it is change. oh, my god. what's going on? the world is ending. where all of our people go. they couldn't handle it. and, oh, that's. no, but it's real. like, what you're talking about is real. it's like they couldn't handle it, and even though it was very obvious that the people who are accusing espn of doing this were only doing that because the faces change. it wasn't. they acted like every night on the 6 p.m. sportscenter, we were talking about immigration reform. like we we were never doing that. it was a sports show. but you have you know, you know how it is. it's like if they could sell a narrative about our show not being about sports, about black people being too political. one thing i learned and i knew this beforehand, but i never really experienced this until i was doing the six p in sports center. people consider you just being black an