supports and love which is something that has to be learned and requires positive role models now j.j. ball is also very interestingly making a plea here for literature is that right that's right he says reading is very important he supports an initiative called boys into books which gives free books to young boys but he's not happy to just have them read the kind of male adventure story in order to get reading which was a strategy when i was young he wants men to read feminist micha to read female office but i think perhaps 1st of all we should read this book it's very concise it's entertaining it's easy to read and it might just change your perspective on the world a broad range of perspectives obviously important for all of us especially in these times when diversity is is so on the front page let's hope this book can help and thanks for joining me adrian kennedy. all that young men should read to find alternatives to toxic masculinity is exactly what moves it had in mind when he wrote the confusions of a young master tallis his 1st novel only 25 at the time in 1906 the austrian writer c

j.j. redick is a veteran of the nba. but he is a rookie when it comes to practicing b-ball in a ballroom.ou're sitting in isolation in a state that is a hot spot, you're aware from your kids and your wife. how do you put all of that aside and try to win a game? >> it's actually incredibly difficult to put it all aside. i'm in my sixth week of not seeing my children. and i've never gone that long without seeing my kids, or without seeing my wife. that can re and st. int tl. the deputy commissioner of the nba, mark tatum, says to save the season, the league's lockdown was the only safe choice. >> there is no social distancing in basketball. these players are playing near each other, close to each other, they're breatheing eacbreathing each ots air, so the campus environment was something we had to do to keep them safe and keep them healthy. >> so, yeah, they did the back of the throat. >> reporter: the nba turned to esteemed vistids when they came to you trying to create this massive bubble, were you skeptical at first that it would work? >> i think no one should be so arrogant to think tha