Pope Francis Meets With <br />NBA Players at the Vatican.<br />According to ESPN, Sterling Brown, Kyle Korver, Jonathan Isaac, Anthony Tolliver and Marco Belinelli met with the pope on Monday.<br />Pope Francis reportedly set up the meeting to discuss social justice initiatives.<br />He issued a statement over the summer in response to unrest following the shooting and killing of unarmed Black citizens, .<br />such as George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, <br />at the hands of police.<br />My friends, we cannot tolerate or turn a blind eye to racism and exclusion in any form and yet claim to defend the sacredness of every human life, Pope Francis, via statement.<br />Several NBA players and teams took a stand in joining the Black Lives Matter movement.<br />The meeting was reportedly in reference to what the NBA intends to do moving forward
