Pope Francis meets a delegation of five NBA players, including Jonathan Isaac and Sterling Brown and officials from the National Basketball Players Association at the Vatican November 23, 2020. Vatican Media/Handout via REUTERS Pope Francis on Monday met with five players from the NBA to discuss social and economic injustice. "With the Pope's support and blessing, we are excited to head into this next season reinvigorated to keep pushing for change and bringing our communities together," said Anthony Tolliver, a forward with the Memphis Grizzlies. "This meeting validates the power of our players' voices," said Michele Roberts, executive director of the National Basketball Players Association. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. The holiest man in Catholicism met with a delegation of professional basketball players on Monday to discuss their efforts to combat injustice in the United States."We are extremely honored to have had this opportunity," Kyle Korver, a three-point specialist with the Milwaukee Bucks, said in a statement following a meeting with Pope Francis.Korver was joined by four other players at the Vatican, where they discussed their efforts to address "social and economic injustice and inequality," according to their union, the National Basketball Players Association."With the Pope's support and blessing, we are excited to head into this next season reinvigorated to keep pushing for change and bringing our communities together," Anthony Tolliver, a forward with the Memphis Grizzlies, commented.The meeting comes after a number of NBA teams boycotted games this summer and fall in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.

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