This is an opinion column.

There are things we know. These things are called facts. Some of you are interested in them and understand their value. There are other things we believe, based on what we think we know. Those things are called opinions.

There are times when the distance between fact and opinion is so vast it becomes a void. Some of you have thrown Brandon Miller into that void. Short of facts. Long on opinion. With a reckless disregard for the truth behind a senseless tragedy.

In his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Hang the banner in Coleman Coliseum. It has become the story of the 2022-2023 Alabama basketball season.

Here are some facts about this season, this team and its best player. That last observation, by the way, is an opinion based on fact.