Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler will not be allowed to wear a blank nameplate for the NBA's restart near Orlando, according to Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press.
He will instead have his own last name on his jersey, according to Ira Winderman of the Sun-Sentinel.
Butler said he initially planned to have no name on the back of his jersey, as he explained last week, per Nick Friedell of ESPN:
"I have decided not to. With that being said, I hope that my last name doesn't go on there as well. Just because I love and respect all the messages that the league did choose, but for me, I felt like with no message, with no name, it's going back to, like, who I was. And if I wasn't who I was today, I'm no different than anybody else of color and want that to be my message in the sense that just because I'm an NBA player, everybody has the same right, no matter what, and that's how I feel about my people of color."
According to Reynolds, wearing a nameplate is part of the uniform agreement.
The NBA announced it would allow players to wear social justice messages on the backs of their jerseys instead of their names, using a limited amount of agreed-upon messages.
The rest of Butler's teammates picked a message, with six choosing "Black Lives Matter."
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After being denied, Butler had to choose one of the phrases or play with his own name on his jersey and he decided on the latter.
LeBron James notably chose not to wear a message and instead will have a regular Los Angeles Lakers jersey with his name on it.
Butler has been active in helping the fight against racial injustice, taking part in an online town hall discussion on Juneteeth where he described his experience with racism.
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