NBA at 75: 2010s featured seismic shifts on, off the court
2 years, 8 months ago

NBA at 75: 2010s featured seismic shifts on, off the court

Associated Press  

Two of the NBA’s most significant dynasties emerged in the second decade of the 2000s. Players across the league donned “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirts -- the last words of Eric Garner before his death after being placed in a chokehold by a New York City police officer. The players of the WNBA also stepped up their activism, from wearing shirts that proclaimed “Black Lives Matter” to kneeling during the national anthem to show solidarity with Colin Kaepernick’s NFL campaign against police violence. “I mean too much to so many kids that feel like they don’t have a way out and they need someone to help lead them out of the situation they’re in.” A decade of social activism merged seamlessly into America’s racial reckoning in the summer of 2020, which again found the NBA in the middle of things. “But he said, ‘Let’s put the best players on the court and hire the best people to run the organizations.’” Lapchick said a conversation he had with Stern in the late 1990s was especially profound.

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Former NBA legend, voice for equality Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to produce, narrate documentary on America's political movements
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3 years, 11 months ago

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3 years, 11 months ago

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4 years, 3 months ago

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LA Times  

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Associated Press  

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The Hindu  

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The Hindu  

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4 years, 6 months ago

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