For Lonnie Walker IV, his toughest moment wasn’t getting hurt or getting dropped from the Lakers’ starting lineup.

It wasn’t losing his spot in the rotation or being let go in free agency.

No, life had shown him what really tough was.

For one of the newest Nets, his most difficult challenge was finally deciding to open up about the sexual abuse he had survived as a child from the age of 7 to 10. It was cutting off the hair he had grown as a coping mechanism and making a statement he thought would help others out who had endured similar horrors.