Basketball
Embry: Players should never shut up and dribble
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Saturday, 20 June 2020 08:56
NBA Hall of Famer Wayne Embry, who was the first African American to become a general manager in pro sports, believes players should use their voices by continuing to play during the current protests while supporting the Black Lives Matter movement."I've always been a proponent of sports being a model of a greater society because we come together from different…
Heat's Butler opens up on racist incident as youth
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Friday, 19 June 2020 21:44
In a candid and passionate online town hall discussion hosted by the Miami Heat, All-Star forward Jimmy Butler recounted one of his first experiences with racism and declared that "now is the time to change."Butler was one of several Heat players who shared their deeply personal experiences and engaged in difficult discussions about racism, social injustice and police brutality facing…
Wizards' Beal, Wall recount bad cop encounters
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Friday, 19 June 2020 18:03
Wizards guard Bradley Beal is a star at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., but away from it he has had to go through frightening interactions with law enforcement like countless other black people in the United States.At the "Together We Stand" march -- hosted by the Wizards and the WNBA defending champion Washington Mystics on Friday -- Beal recounted…
Buss to whites: Acknowledge racism and stop it
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Friday, 19 June 2020 18:03
Los Angeles Lakers chief executive officer and governor Jeanie Buss shared a photograph of a letter on her Instagram account Friday containing racist and misogynistic epithets "so that everyone can see the hate is real and living out there," she wrote.The two-sentence letter, composed on a typewriter, begins with "Dear Whore" and continues with more vitriol."After 60 years as a…
Winslow: Finishing NBA season in Orlando 'tricky'
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Friday, 19 June 2020 18:03
For Memphis Grizzlies swingman Justise Winslow, the idea of playing out the rest of the season in Orlando, Florida, is "tricky."Winslow spoke with former NBA forward Caron Butler on the league's Twitter feed on Friday afternoon and expressed concern about the continuation of the season, the same way he did on his Instagram page on Thursday evening."The bubble is tricky,…
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Bucks' Korver seeks change more than NBA title
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Bradley, coalition seek NBA plan for black causes
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