For organizations like MCCAIT, this was the very situation they were trying to avoid.
In crowds, they chanted slogans and carried banners that read: We pay taxes not to make the rich richer!
To those in the sports community, they seemed like beings from another world.
Suddenly, they broke through the dimensional barrier between serious social issues and sports narratives.
The leaders of the protest wanted to get close to the Supersonics players and question them on why they couldn't pay out of their own pockets.
This was not something that the ever-so benevolent Kevin Durant could handle.
The people at Nike never taught him how to maintain his image in such situations.
However, they indeed taught him how to respond to situations they didn't know how to handle.
Durant almost robotically said, "I need to learn more about the situation."