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The official release date for Attack on Titan season 4 has just been confirmed for Japan's NHK, but Crunchyroll remains vague.
When it comes to anime, there are very few shows that even come close to the level of popularity and notoriety as Attack on Titan.

Following the insane finale to season 3, fans have been patiently waiting for news on when the fourth and final instalment of the hit anime would premiere.

Here is everything we know so far about when season 4 of Attack on Titan will release and what we can expect from the final chapter.

Attack on Titan season 4: Release date

Attack on Titan season 4 will premiere on December 7th on NHK in Japan and "later this year" on Crunchyroll.

Many of us were expecting Attack on Titan season 4 to premiere in October, but on August 6th, the Animate Times removed the final season from their Fall Season schedule - indicating that an early 2021 premiere was now most likely.

It has now been revealed that the fourth and final season of Attack on Titan will premiere on December 7th in Japan and "later this year" on Crunchyroll.

In the build up to season 4, an Attack on Titan original movie that will recap seasons 1-3 called 'Chronicle' will premiere on November 18th.

There have also been unconfirmed reports that it will be a two-cour split season of 10 and 12 episodes - similar to how season 3 was released. So, it may be the case that we get the first part airing between December 2020 and January 2021, with the final part coming later in 2021.
UPDATE: Funimation has today, September 24th, announced that the fourth season of Attack on Titan will also premiere on the streaming platform on December 7th.
Attack on Titan season 4: Plot
Spoiler warning: We will NOT be revealing any specific spoilers for season 4 from the manga, but do not read on unless you wish to know more.
Season 4 will follow the story in chapter 91 of the manga series and initially focus on what happened to Eren and his team in the immediate aftermath of season 3.

"This time the story is expected to go overseas as the survey corps make significant progress. The protagonist Eren along with Mikasa, Levi and Armin, will cross the sea and will find out some exciting details." - The Nation Roar.

This change of environment has been confirmed in the reveal trailer, which shows a completely new landscape that resembles a World War-esc battlefield.

We also see several new titans and whilst we don't expect these to play the main role in season 4, they may indeed influence the final battle with Marley. Although there are also rumblings that a brand-new titan ability will play a massive part in season 4.

Reaction to the reveal trailer...

The reaction to the season 4 trailer of Attack on Titan has been incredible and it only goes to show how popular the series remains with fans.

In fact, the Attack on Titan Wiki has recently revealed that the reveal trailer is now the "most viewed Seasonal Anime TV trailer on YouTube."

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Attack on titan when season 4 is over with will go down as the...hold up *clears throat (THE GREATEST ANIME OF ALL TIME!!!!!) pic.twitter.com/TmCgrFANB1
- Terry Mcginnis (@Karmmabender) June 11, 2020

In other news, No Supergirl season 7? Renewal status of the Arrowverse series explained

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Attack on Titan season 4: Release date officially confirmed by Crunchyroll

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Teenages are standing up to fight for equal rights. Many are protesting to fight for what is right.

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To what extent is the legacy of slavery and racism still present in America in 2020? In what ways has progress been made? What work remains to be done?

From Sept. 22 to Sept. 28, our Student Opinion column will be devoted to the issues we'll be discussing in our Civil Conversation Challenge, but, as always, any teenager is invited to respond. We hope you'll not only post your own thoughts, but also reply to the comments of others.
What kind of conversations have you had about race and racism in the last several months? Do you talk about these issues at home, at school or with friends? Have the conversations you've had about race changed since protests began during the summer? Did the death of George Floyd and the following months of protest confirm, or reveal, that we are still very far from achieving racial equity and justice in America? Or do you believe that the country has already done the work to achieve equality and that conversations - or protests - about identity and injustice are unnecessary, or even harmful?

These are just some of the questions we hope you will explore in this Student Opinion forum, part of our Civil Conversation Challenge.

Some background on the issue:
On May 25, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed in Minneapolis when a police officer pressed his knee on Mr. Floyd's neck for over eight minutes. After a bystander captured the tragic event on video, Mr. Floyd's death sparked protests across the country and around the world. Scholars and crowd-counting experts believe these Black Lives Matter protests may be the largest movement in United States history.

Mr. Floyd's death came just months after Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man, was pursued while jogging by three white men in southeastern Georgia and killed, and weeks after Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman and emergency room technician in Louisville, Ky., was fatally shot by the police. On Wednesday this week, a grand jury decided not to charge any officers with shooting Ms. Taylor in her Louisville apartment, and more protests erupted.

Their violent deaths have reinforced racial divisions in America and played out against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic, which has disproportionately affected African-Americans and Latinos.

For many, the events of the last several months indicate that as a nation we still have tremendous work to do to achieve racial justice and equality. They see issues such as housing and financial inequality, high incarceration rates and lower-quality health care as being intrinsically tied to the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow laws and institutionalized racism.

But for others, all of this focus on race is itself the problem. According to them, the police violence that has made headlines is, in the words of President Trump, a result of a few " bad apples." They see some attempts to examine attitudes about race in the workplace and to explore the legacy of slavery in schools as "anti-American." For those who see the issue this way, the continuing protests signal the need for law and order.

This topic is complicated and nuanced. You can choose to approach the conversation based on your personal experiences, or you may want to look at systemic issues and policy changes. The following sections will give you resources for finding our more information about the issue and then questions to guide a conversation.
Where to learn more: Possible questions to address:

Why does this topic interest you? How have your experiences shaped your opinions? What questions or concerns does this topic raise for you?

How do your own racial identity and life experiences affect your perspective on this topic? When was the first time you had to think about your racial identity? At home? In school? Do you talk regularly about race and racism? How much racism do you face in your daily life? If you do not face racism regularly, where do you witness racism around you?

To what extent do you think racism, and the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow laws and institutional discrimination, is still a problem in the United States? Do you think existing inequalities in our society, from education gaps and income disparities to divergent health care outcomes and disproportionate incarceration rates, are intrinsically tied to historic and ongoing racism? Why do you think the way you do?

Do you support the protests that emerged after the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis? Were there protests in your community? Did you participate? Has your perspective, opinion and understanding of the issues changed since the protests began? In general, do you think these protest were effective in calling attention to the issue of police brutality against Black people in America? Do you think they have been, or will be, successful at spurring change? Or do you instead focus on isolated incidents of violence that have taken place during some protests and see the Black Lives Matter movement as more of a problem than a solution?

Do you think police reform should be a priority? What is your experience with the police? Is anyone in your family a police officer? Do you think that the police are a necessary means of control and safety in communities? Do you feel safer knowing that there are police? Or do the police make you feel unsafe or threatened? How do your experiences with police officers affect your point of view on police reform?

In the wake of the protests, there have been varying calls to change police departments, increase police accountability, reduce police funding and replace the police with alternative public health and safety programs. At the same time, there is a counter-movement, known as "Back the Blue" or "Blue Lives Matter," based on the premise that police officers are being wrongly vilified and that law enforcement should be supported. Where do you stand on the issue of police reform?

Does the United States owe the descendants of enslaved people an apology - or, as some argue, financial reparations? While the government has apologized and paid reparations for the forced relocation of 120,000 Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II, it has never apologized for the nation's treatment of enslaved people and their descendants. Is it time for an official apology? Should reparations be paid to advance racial equity? Or are these measures too late or misguided?

What do you think it will take to achieve racial justice? Do you think this should even be a goal? Why?

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Civil Conversation Challenge for Teenagers, Forum 3: The Fight for Racial Justice

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To what extent is the legacy of slavery and racism still present in America in 2020? In what ways has progress been made? What work remains to be done? From Sept. 22 to Sept. 28, our Student Opinion column will be devoted to the issues we'll be discussing in our Civil Conversation Challenge , but, as always, any teenager is invited to respond.

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the new 2021 400z will replace the very old 370z

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Illustration by Christian Schulte

The next-generation Nissan Z sports car is finally on the horizon, and here's what we know about it.

The new 400Z will be the long-awaited replacement for the ancient 370Z, which has been on sale since 2009 with few updates.

We expect the new Z to debut sometime this year as a 2021 model.

This story originally appeared in the May 2020 issue of Car and Driver as part of our 25 Cars Worth Waiting For package. Our sneak preview of the most exciting cars coming in the next few years draws on knowledge from leaked product-development plans, spy photos, and loose-lipped insiders mixed in with information that has already been officially released. The reporting for this story was completed in February and early March, before the auto industry began feeling major effects of the coronavirus pandemic. As many automakers are now delaying or pausing development programs, the debut and on-sale dates reported here may change.

The sports car that everyone forgot-including Nissan, apparently-is still alive, though hardly doing well. Judged against today's sports cars, the 11-year-old Nissan 370Z is about as competitive as a bicycle. Later this year, though, Nissan will finally give the Z-car the attention it deserves by introducing a successor.

The new Z, code-named Z35, won't be a ground-up rethink. It will continue on the latest version of Nissan's FM platform and share components with the Infiniti Q60 coupe. The twin-turbo 3.0-liter V-6 that makes up to 400 horsepower in the Infiniti Q50 and Q60 seems like a shoo-in. A seven-speed automatic is the only transmission available in those Infinitis, but we're hopeful that a stick shift will be offered as well. Nissan already hinted that such a thing is possible when it bolted a six-speed manual to the twin-turbo engine for a modified 370Z SEMA concept in 2019. The engine and architecture can accommodate all-wheel drive, but we doubt Nissan will go that route. The Z is a front-engine rear-wheel-drive sports car, and this one should stay true to that heritage.

The 300Z name (or 300ZX for nostalgia's sake) would make the most sense given the engine's displacement, but we predict that Nissan will instead choose 400Z to assert the new car's superiority over its predecessors. The original Datsun 240Z is said to serve as a styling inspiration. We hope that means the 400Z will present simple, clean lines rather than the busy, borderline-tortured look seen on some recent Nissan concepts and production cars. Roundish headlights and 300ZX-style taillights will reportedly serve as key retro touches.

The old-school theme won't extend inside; that's a good thing because the Z's interior is in need of a modern makeover. The cabin should retain its cozy two-seat atmosphere, but it'll benefit from the latest Nissan infotainment system and a fresh dashboard design.

Today's 370Z starts at $31,015, making it a decent performance bargain despite its age. When it goes on sale next year, the new model will see a price uptick but start somewhere in the $40,000s to undercut the Toyota Supra.

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the nfl started it seacon on september 10th. now they are considering if fans should allowed in the stadiums.

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Football and other professional sports are back. Do they provide you needed comfort during these difficult times? Or do they fill you with mixed emotions?

The Bills played in an empty stadium on Sunday, but Buffalo's fans in Clarence, N.Y., were ecstatic watching their team dismantle the Jets. Credit... Libby March for The New York Times

Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until September 2021.
Featured Article: "When You Love, and Loathe, Watching the N.F.L." by Kurt Streeter
The N.F.L.'s new season began on Sept. 10. But this sports year is unlike any other. Kurt Streeter, a Sports of the Times columnist,contemplates the return of professional football to a nation living on a raw and perilous edge and asks: Is this the distraction we really need?

In this lesson, you will examine the role of sports in society, explore the challenges facing the N.F.L. and other sports leagues this year, and consider whether fans should continue to watch games during a national crisis. In the Going Further activity, you will imagine what you would do if you were the N.F.L. commissioner and how you would lead a professional sport during these tumultuous times.
(Note to teachers: Ideally, you might do this as a

I am an avid sports fan.

Sports are essential during a time of national crisis to provide comfort and to restore a sense of normalcy.

Professional athletes should stick to playing their sport and not express their views on political or controversial issues.

Sports is just a game - and should not be played a during time of pandemic and protests.

Read the article, then answer the following questions: Four Corners activity, but in a time of social distancing and remote learning, you might simply ask students to stand after you read a statement and each of the four response options.)
Before reading, write and share your views on the following five statements.

For each statement, state whether you strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree. Then discuss with your classmates or explore in writing why you think the way you do.

1. The article begins, "It was the return of a lost love." Why do you think the author chose to describe the start of a sports season this way? How does Kurt Streeter, the author, explain the deep connections between fans and sports - especially at this time? Do any of his descriptions resonate with your own experiences?

2. Yet Mr. Streeter also writes, "The return of a lost love comes with risk." In your own words, explain these risks and why he "loved watching the games, but I loathed it, too."

3. What are some of the challenges the N.F.L. faces, according to the author? Which do you find most significant? Why does the coronavirus pandemic put players in football at greater risk than those in other sports?

4. Mr. Streeter provides many rhetorical questions, including:

Is the return of our most popular sport sending a false alert that we have almost conquered the virus?

Will the deep desire for normalcy, heralded by the return of the N.F.L., add to our lack of focus, our fog of denial - and the difficulty we are having in our efforts to tame not only the virus, but racism?

Did the league's sudden, large-scale embrace of Black Lives Matter have the gloss of a put-on?

Is the N.F.L. joining in the message? We're back. We can do this. The normal days of old are just around the bend.

Choose one to answer. What would you say to Mr. Streeter, if the two of you could have a conversation?

5. What was the role of sports during previous national crises - like the Spanish flu epidemic and World War II, according to the article? How can we apply the lessons from those experiences today?

6. The column is not written in the language of a typical sports article - it is movingly personal, often poetic and deeply philosophical. What lines were most surprising, memorable or thought-provoking and why?

7. The article ends:

The N.F.L. is back, but should we still love it?

How would you answer Mr. Streeter's final query? Does reading the article change any of your views from the warm-up activity? If so, why? Are you more or less likely to watch the N.F.L. or other professional sports now?

1. Share your thoughts.

Answer some or all of the following prompts.

What is it like to be a sports fan in 2020? How hard was it to go without professional sports during the lockdown? What did you do instead? What has the return of sports meant to you? Now that they are back, are you as avid a fan as before?

Mr. Streeter describes the challenges in returning to something you love during this time of pandemic and protests. Are there other things in your life you find hard to return to? If yes, tell us why.

What is your opinion on some of the recent political stances taken by professional athletes - such as N.B.A. players wearing messages of social justice on their jerseys or the boycott of games by sports teams following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis.? Do you think athletes are too political these days? Or not political enough?

If you were the commissioner of the N.F.L., or of any other pro sports, how would you address the issues and concerns raised in this article? Would you have canceled the season? How would you have responded to protests for racial justice? The pandemic? What protocols would you put in place to ensure player safety? To provide fans with better, more meaningful experiences?

What are your predictions for the season? Do you think the N.F.L. can get through the season without a major stoppage? Who do you think will be the Super Bowl champs?

2. Conduct further research.
A) Learn more about an athlete, past or present, who took a political stand.

To find an athlete to explore, you might start with the Times Sports Topics page, or these Times articles:

Or you might research past sports icons like Muhammad Ali and his refusal to fight in the Vietnam War or learn why John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised their fists in a Black Power salute during a medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics.

Perhaps you would be more interested in recent examples, like quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial injustice; Megan Rapinoe and her teammates fighting for equal pay for the United States women's national soccer team; the W.N.B.A. superstar Maya Moore leaving her sport so that she could try to help free a man she believed was unjustly convicted; or, just this month, the tennis champion Naomi Osaka wearing masks to the court bearing the names of Black people who were victims of violence.

What issues or causes did they fight for? What was the reaction of the sports world and the public to their stance? What lessons from their struggle can we apply today?

OR:

B) Research the role of sports during a moment of national crisis in the past, such as the 1918 influenza pandemic, World War I, World War II or after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

What specific challenges did the sporting world face during the crisis? How did sports help to bring communities and the nation together? How can we apply the lessons from those experiences today?

Synthesize your findings in a one-pager and share with your class.

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Lesson of the Day: 'When You Love, and Loathe, Watching the N.F.L.'

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Football and other professional sports are back. Do they provide you needed comfort during these difficult times? Or do they fill you with mixed emotions? Students in U.S. high schools can get free digital access to The New York Times until September 2021. Featured Article: " When You Love, and Loathe, Watching the N.F.L.

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mastodon fossil discovered in colombian gold mine.  - cnn

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The players are seeded No. 1 to No. 16, with seeding based on their player ratings in NBA 2K20. Each player will select eight current NBA teams from which they will choose their team each round. Each player can use a team only once, and if two opponents select the same team, the away team gets first choice of team.

Kevin Durant of the Brooklyn Nets is the No. 1 seed, and he selected the Brooklyn Nets, Chicago Bulls, Dallas Mavericks, Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, Los Angeles Clippers, Oklahoma City Thunder and Utah Jazz as his eight teams. He will face 16th-seeded Derrick Jones Jr. of the Miami Heat at 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday. Jones has selected the Boston Celtics, the Nets, Dallas Mavericks, Clippers, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, Milwaukee Bucks and Philadelphia 76ers as his teams.

NBA 2K Players Tournament seedings (with NBA 2K20 rank in parentheses):

1. Kevin Durant, Brooklyn Nets (96)

2. Trae Young, Atlanta Hawks (90)

3. Hassan Whiteside, Portland Trail Blazers (87)

4. Donovan Mitchell, Utah Jazz (87)

5. Devin Booker, Phoenix Suns (86)

6. Andre Drummond, Cleveland Cavaliers (85)

7. Zach LaVine, Chicago Bulls (85)

8. Montrezl Harrell, LA Clippers (85)

9. Domantas Sabonis, Indiana Pacers (85)

10. Deandre Ayton, Phoenix Suns (85)

11. DeMarcus Cousins (81)

12. Michael Porter Jr., Denver Nuggets (81)

13. Rui Hachimura, Washington Wizards (79)

14. Patrick Beverley, LA Clippers (78)

15. Harrison Barnes, Sacramento Kings (78)

16. Derrick Jones Jr., Miami Heat (78)

NBA 2K Players Tournament schedule:

Round 1

Friday

7:30-8:30 p.m. ET (ESPN): Derrick Jones Jr. (16) vs. Kevin Durant (1)

8:30-11:30 p.m. ET (ESPN2): Games TBA

Sunday, April 5

Noon-4 p.m. ET (ESPN2): Games TBA

Quarterfinals

April 7

7 p.m. ET (ESPN2)

Semifinals and finals

April 11

Times TBA (ESPN)

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The Nba is taking place in Orlando. No one is allowed on the court besides the players and the coaches.

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In this week's newsletter, Marc Stein describes his first 48 hours in quarantine at Walt Disney World and discusses recent comments by the former player Stephen Jackson.

The Toronto Raptors' team buses arriving at Walt Disney World in Florida on Thursday. Credit... Toronto Raptors/via Reuters

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LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - A knock on the heavy brown door of my first-floor hotel room at Walt Disney World finally came Sunday night just before 10 p.m.

This was the all-business knock I was waiting for. Three technicians from BioReference Laboratories wearing white coats and face shields, and accompanied by an N.B.A. representative, had arrived to administer my first-ever coronavirus test.

According to the rules in the N.B.A.'s corner of Disney World, no one is allowed inside the 314-square-foot room I am restricted to through Sunday. So I slid a chair up to the doorway to receive a shallow swab of each nostril and my throat. The sticks were snapped and placed in a tube, then stored in a crate to take back to the lab. The swabs, roughly five hours after I checked in, took less than a minute.

I took my second coronavirus test Monday night, nearly 24 hours later, even before I had a result confirmed from the first. But the end goal remains unchanged: I need a week's worth of negative results from daily tests to gain full entry into what everyone refers to as the N.B.A. bubble - even though league officials, as Commissioner Adam Silver put it last week, acknowledge that it is better described as a campus because it is by no means "hermetically sealed."

Only two reporters are fully inside so far. Once the rest of us are allowed to look around, access restrictions for reporters will be the most onerous in league history. The N.B.A. believes that's the appropriate approach for what is surely its most complex undertaking in league history, but the strictness makes it difficult to say how much of the bubble we'll really be able to see. Reporters can only go three places after quarantining - game venues, practice sites and the hotel designated for the news media. The three hotels that house the 22 teams are off limits.

Yet this first-of-its-kind event, even after accounting for all those deterrents, was simply unmissable.

Regular readers of this newsletter know that for weeks I have been voicing concerns about the dangers of the N.B.A. restart, stemming from the virus as well as soft-tissue injury risks. That apprehension hasn't gone away; how could it when Florida racked up a national record 15,300 new coronavirus cases on Sunday as I arrived? But this is the league I've been fortunate to cover for nearly 30 years. The moment is just too big, too historic and too different to stay away.

"This is going to be a very unique opportunity to observe the human condition," said Tommy Sheppard, the general manager of the Washington Wizards.

Closer to 20 journalists, compared to the anticipated 10, have been approved to enter, reflecting the considerable curiosity generated by 22 teams that must live and play at a single site without fans. That includes journalists from The Associated Press, The Athletic, The Boston Globe, The Dallas Morning News, The Los Angeles Times, Southern California News Group, Sports Illustrated, USA Today, The Washington Post and The New York Times. A like number of journalists from the league's official media partners, ESPN and Turner, is also expected, including one reporter from each outlet who was allowed to arrive early to complete their quarantines before teams started arriving on July 7: Malika Andrews (ESPN) and Chris Haynes (Turner/Yahoo).

Those outlets will have enjoyed a 12- or 13-day jump on the rest of us by the time we can exit our rooms and attend a practice. Yet I learned long ago, from several mentors at The Orange County Register in the 1980s when I was just starting out, that sportswriters shouldn't bemoan work conditions to readers because they simply don't want to hear it. So I will shut up and report from behind that brown door until lockdown ends and report even more on the other side.

A few more highlights and observations to share from the first 48 hours:

The next time you fly, expect to feel disoriented. Being back in the Dallas-Fort Worth airport Sunday for the first time since March 13, even as much as I typically travel, was ... tense. Any time a line had to be formed, just figuring out where to stand and how to social distance was awkward. And that was before I even got on the plane.

On top of the well-chronicled three daily food drop-offs made to everyone in quarantine, room service is available from 5 p.m. to 2 a.m. I've tested it twice, but I have not yet tried either the New York strip steak or the braised beef short ribs that had the Los Angeles Lakers' newly signed J.R. Smith excited, amid his various complaints, when he read the menu aloud last week on Instagram Live.

I am a coffee snob who has zero dexterity to make my own coffee decently, no matter how hard I try. I stuffed one suitcase and two large duffel bags to capacity - but that left no room to bring my own fancy coffee maker. So I purchased some space-efficient Keurig pods that looked interesting online, packed them to use with the machine in my room and hoped for the best. After it was too late, I shared this plan with Utah Jazz forward Joe Ingles. "Keurig ain't it," Ingles said with a laugh. Utah's coffee connoisseur was right.

I can handle the isolation - I think. The only daunting development so far was finding out, after fully unpacking, that we must move to a new room after completing the seven-day quarantine. I couldn't function until two months' worth of clothes were all on the extra hangers I brought, or until I found places for the considerable work supplies, toiletries, hats, snacks (peanuts mostly) and maybe even a small stash of a glass-bottle soft drink you may have heard colleagues rib me about in the past.

I can't leave the room until Sunday night, but I haven't seen any security presence outside my window. I nonetheless intend to obey the rules and stay put, no matter how badly I would like to walk to the ice machine steps from my room. Even that is not permitted.

The thick, gray, rubber MagicBand bracelet that functions as a room key is adorned with two iconic silhouettes: Mickey Mouse and Jerry West, the inspiration for the N.B.A. logo. It may prove to be the best Disney souvenir we take home when this is all over - if we indeed get to keep it.

I am scheduled to be here until early September, before a handoff to my colleague Scott Cacciola. Of course, as we all know by now, planning in 2020 tends to be futile. So especially in these early stages, for me as much as anyone, bubble life is probably best approached day-to-day.

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Stephen Jackson with Gianna Floyd, middle, George Floyd's 6-year-old daughter, and Gianna's mother, Roxie Washington, last month in Minneapolis. Credit... Victor J. Blue for The New York Times

Stephen Jackson helped the San Antonio Spurs win a championship in his third N.B.A. season. He moved past his role in the ugliest brawl in league annals to earn a lasting place in Golden State Warriors folklore. When his playing career ended, Jackson stayed in the game by transitioning to the media industry.

Then he eclipsed all of those achievements by fighting so passionately for justice on behalf of George Floyd, his longtime friend from the Houston area whom he affectionately referred to as "Twin."

The leadership and energy Jackson has poured into the Black Lives Matter movement over the past six weeks, at one of the most meaningful junctures for race relations in this nation's history, has been the finest work of his 20 years in the public eye.

Yet it has suddenly become difficult to focus on any of that. Last week, Jackson made anti-Semitic remarks and defended a social media post from DeSean Jackson of the Philadelphia Eagles that used a quote widely misattributed to Adolf Hitler and also cited Louis Farrakhan, a minister with a history of anti-Semitic comments.

I have covered Stephen Jackson extensively through his highs and lows. I briefly worked alongside him at ESPN. I profiled him for The New York Times as recently as June 11, covering his emergence as an activist after Floyd's death under the headline: "Stephen Jackson Was Known in the N.B.A. as an Agitator. Now He's Leading a Movement." In the article, Jackson spoke of his determination to be "a voice for the voiceless" as his voice unexpectedly became so prominent.

It is against the backdrop of Stephen Jackson's widely lauded activism, beyond my status as Jewish journalist who covers the N.B.A., that Jackson's comments were so disturbing.

It was disappointing to watch - and not only for the pain it caused when Stephen Jackson was slow to apologize for his initial backing of DeSean Jackson and then repeated a centuries-old trope about how Jews "control all the banks." It was also hard to watch because of the damage Stephen Jackson did to himself.

Having taken on such a momentous role in the battle against systemic racism and police brutality that means so much to so many in the N.B.A., Jackson swiftly undermined those efforts. As Michael Wilbon, another former ESPN colleague of mine, so aptly put it on "Pardon The Interruption," Jackson hurt his own credibility as a voice for equality.

In a CNN interview with Don Lemon, Jackson ultimately conceded that he used the " wrong words " from the beginning. Jackson insisted that his much-criticized support for DeSean Jackson was misconstrued and that he failed to clarify that when he spoke of DeSean Jackson being "right," he was referring to a private conversation the two had about DeSean Jackson's treatment by the Eagles.

But DeSean Jackson's initial post purported to quote Hitler, the personification of hate after orchestrating the genocide of six million Jews during the Holocaust. It also invoked Farrakhan, who has a well-chronicled history of anti-Semitic comments, including describing Hitler as "a very great man." The perception thus lingers for Stephen Jackson that he endorsed the most offensive possible hate speech to Jews and then showed less contrition than DeSean Jackson, who is not related.

I have my own personal connection to the Holocaust, as I have written, after my late father and his parents were seized by the Nazis in Romania when he was 9 ½ months old and ultimately taken to a concentration camp called Transnistria. But I am trying to separate that as much as I can and cover this, first and foremost, as an N.B.A. issue, just as I am trying to understand and cover issues that affect people of color every day in this league better than I have before.

In virtually every social media message Jackson has posted since Floyd was killed in Minneapolis police custody on May 25, Jackson has included what has become his signature phrase: Love For All Who Have Love For All.

At a great cost last week, Jackson seemed to completely forget his own mantra.
With such significant topics commandeering the first two sections of this newsletter, we have placed Corner Three on a one-week hiatus. It will return next Tuesday.

Please send your questions to marcstein-newsletter@nytimes.com, and be sure to include your first and last name, the city you're writing from and "Corner Three" in the subject line.

The Palace of Auburn Hills, which hosted the Detroit Pistons and the W.N.B.A.'s Detroit Shock, was imploded on Saturday. Both teams won three championships during their time there. Credit... David Guralnick/Detroit News, via Associated Press

The Detroit Pistons are one of three N.B.A. franchises to win a title in the inaugural season at their home building. The Pistons won it all in 1988-89 to cap their first season at The Palace of Auburn Hills, with the Los Angeles Lakers (Staples Center in 1999-2000) and San Antonio (AT&T Center in 2002-03) later duplicating the feat. The Pistons moved back to downtown Detroit for the 2017-18 season after spending nearly 30 years in the suburb of Auburn Hills, Mich., and the previous 10 seasons in Pontiac, Mich. The remains of The Palace, whose demolition began in February, were imploded Saturday.

Washington's Bradley Beal, who elected not to participate in the N.B.A. restart because of a right shoulder injury, finished the season with a scoring average of 30.5 points per game. He's the first player in league history to crack the 30 points-per-game barrier for a season without earning All-Star status.

Even after electing to skip the Wizards' eight seeding games at Walt Disney World, Beal will have appeared in 79.1 percent of Washington's games this season. As my pal Justin Kubatko (@jkubatko), a creator of Basketball Reference, recently reminded us via Twitter, Beal had to play in at least 70 percent of Washington's games to qualify among the league's scoring leaders.

Beal realistically wasn't going to catch James Harden's 34.4 points per game, even if he had played in Florida, but his absence means Harden needs only 12 points in the Houston Rockets' eight forthcoming games in Florida to win his third consecutive N.B.A. scoring title.

Nets Coach Jacque Vaughn heads to the N.B.A. restart with a spotless 2-0 record, courtesy of March victories over the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers. Vaughn, who some in coaching circles believe has a better-than-anticipated opportunity to become Kenny Atkinson's full-time successor, posted a 58-158 record in Orlando in 2 ½ seasons coaching the Magic from 2012-15.
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