The NBA has found its ‘Great White Hope’ — but it’s 6 months too late

[ASFN Admin]

OPINION: The National Basketball Association is still a Black man’s league, and after this summer’s activism, it’s never going back. During an ESPN interview in 2004, interviewer Jim Gray asked Larry Bird, arguably the best White player in NBA history, if the league needed more White players. Bird wasn’t saying anything that 99% of NBA ownership and then NBA commissioner David Stern hadn’t been saying under their breath for years.

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