In November 2017, NBA star Kevin Love had a panic attack in the middle of a game. He was 29 years old and, though he had long suffered from depression and anxiety, had kept his inner life private and had never experienced such acute symptoms. The incident was a wake-up call for Love, and he spent the next year speaking up about mental health not only, as he wrote in the Players' Tribune, an “athlete thing,” but as an “everyone thing.” Since November 2017, Love has been interviewed by the Today Show, GQ, Men's Health, and ESPN, and his outspokenness empowered other players in the league to speak more openly about their mental health challenges, from OCD to depression. Current and former players’ stories compelled the league to recognize what some have called a mental health “crisis” in the NBA, and in May 2018, the National Basketball Players Association appointed Dr. William Parham as the Association’s first-ever director of mental health and wellness. Nearly one year later, in March 2019, NBA commissioner Adam Silver candidly discussed the mental health challenges faced by players today, including new issues like social media that past generations of athletes have not had to deal with. Finally, in mid-September, the NBA announced new rules requiring teams to add mental health staff, starting with the current 2019-2020 season.