Leonard Pitts: Basketball would distract us from the serious issues we face. And that would be great!

Dear Dwight Howard:So I hear you're not sure you want to come back and play basketball. Your team (also my team), the Los Angeles Lakers, was considered a championship contender before the season was abruptly halted by the coronavirus pandemic. Now comes word the NBA plans to resume a modified schedule on a closed campus at Walt Disney World.But in a written statement last week to CNN, you questioned whether now is the time to be thinking about hoops. “Basketball, or entertainment period,