New Orleans Pelicans guard CJ McCollum, who is the president of the National Basketball Players Association, made his first public comments on the Kyrie Irving situation on Saturday night following the team's loss to the Atlanta Hawks. "I think the important part was he did apologize," McCollum said. "He's displayed empathy now. I think this is a learning experience in which I don't think he understood the magnitude of the movie because he didn't watch it. I don't think he understood the magnitude of the people that were affected, how they were impacted and how fast hate can spread and...