John Wall’s difficult childhood, his father in prison and then died of cancer when he was 9 years old, the Irascible character who risked costing his career. His mother saved him, but when he died …
The changing rooms are places considered sacred but until recently also imbued with machismo. Being hard, at least showing hard. Do not make emotions filter, because weakness is not part of the DNA of a professional athlete. Mental health, sexual orientation, all taboos. Woe to talk about it. Times have changed. Today there is much more tolerance, without perhaps going to acceptance, for that there is a few more steps. If John Wall had had the opportunity to let off steam, to find someone to trust his discomfort, perhaps he would not have focused a gun at the temple twice.