NBA

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  3/21/2023
  

  Historian's Book on 1970s NBA Shows Racial Politics around Basketball Have Always Been Ugly

  by Jay Caspian Kang

  The decade saw Black players become dominant in the league and assert their rights as skilled workers. Owners pushed back through the media, smearing the players as entitled drug abusers, as historian Theresa Runstedtler's new book explains. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/1/2022
  

  What Bill Russell's Troubled Relationship with Boston Tells Us about Racism

  by Peniel E. Joseph

  Russell always insisted on exposing the extent of prejudice and discrimination, and refused to settle for acclaim as an athlete as a substitute for respect as a person. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/9/2020
  

  The Players’ Revolt Against Racism, Inequality, and Police Terror

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The radicalization of young Black professional athletes is a stunning development in this unfolding, raucous movement, one that demonstrates the sheer scale of racial inequality and a deep need to do something about it.

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• 11/3/19
  

  China and the NBA: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People

  by Kevin M. Shanley

  China's relationship with NBA is one of the great successes in its cultural and commercial relations with the United States, and a powerful example of Sino-American ‘sports diplomacy’.

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  10/7/19
  

  The NBA's cowardice on China

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  "The NBA just threw Hong Kong under the bus, purely for the sake of the almighty dollar. And if that’s not outrageous, I don’t know what is."