Grantland article on Bobby Phills re: David Wesley

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A few days after being charged, Wesley made his first public statement about the incident. He said Phills’s death would haunt him for the rest of his life. “Every day, every night,” he told reporters. “From people that I’ve talked to, they say it doesn’t go away. The pain lessens, but there probably won’t be a day that I won’t think about it.” Wesley had always used basketball as therapy; when something bothered him, he could retreat to the game. “I knew if I could just get on the court after it happened, that it would give me a moment’s peace, even if it was only five minutes,” Wesley said. But once Wesley had spoken about the crash, reporters kept asking him to relive the worst morning of his life. Every city the Hornets played in meant Wesley would be asked to recount the tragedy for another local newspaper’s story about how Wesley and the team were coping with Phills’s death. “Once I opened that floodgate,” Wesley said, “I had to say it to that person and to the next person and the next person

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