LeBron says Kaepernick deserves 'official apology' from NFL

While NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has acknowledged the league was wrong not to listen to player protests during the 2016 season, Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James still wants to see an apology issued to Colin Kaepernick.

James put pressure on the NFL to apologize to the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback during an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek's Jason Kelly on Thursday.

"As far as the NFL, I'm not in those locker rooms, I'm not with those guys. But I do understand that an apology - I have not heard a true, official apology to Colin Kaepernick on what he was going through and what he was trying to tell the NFL and tell the world about why he was kneeling when he was doing that as a San Francisco 49er," James said. "So, I just see that to still be wrong, and now they are listening some, but I still think we have not heard that official apology to a man who basically sacrificed everything for the better of this world."

James isn't alone in that belief, as a recent survey by the Harris Poll found that 61% of Americans think Kaepernick deserves an apology from Goodell.