A Brief History of NBA Legends and Activism

Nam Tran
6 min readJun 3, 2020
Jaylen Brown speaking at a peaceful protest in Atlanta. (Image via Brown’s Instagram account)

In the past few days, a Band-Aid had been ripped off of a gash that occurs way too often in America –a gash that has never healed. Police brutality happened once again when a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, murdered an unarmed Black man by the name of George Floyd.

Many Americans stood up and demonstrated against this (and many other) injustices. In the NBA, players such as…

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