Tag: Trayvon Martin

Temple, who has been studying for the …

Temple, who has been studying for the LSAT during the league’s hiatus, is the son of Collis Temple, the first Black athlete to play basketball at LSU. Collis Temple received threats while playing for the Tigers in the early 1970s, and the National Guard was called in to protect him. As he got older, Collis Temple shared his experiences with his children. Those stories had a profound effect on Garrett, who has been active in the Black Lives Matter movement for years. The 6-foot-5 guard was in Los Angeles in 2013 when George Zimmerman was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin and said he did not recall the acquittal eliciting a notable uproar there. But he said recently he’s seen a change in the movement after George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis. “It made me angry that it was so foreign to so many people, or people just didn’t even pay attention to it,” Temple said. “Fast forward, it seems like people are finally starting to care about unarmed Black men being brutalized by the police and just Black Americans in general being marginalized.”

“The more the NBA understands that, the …

“The more the NBA understands that, the better everybody will feel about it, especially players. So I feel that us going down there and making sure nobody gets distracted is part of the initial correspondence. We have to go down there and make sure that people don’t forget about George Floyd or Breonna Taylor or Philando Castile or Ahmaud Arbery or Trayvon Martin, which is in the Orlando area. And the list goes on, and the countless other people who were not caught on video who experienced something similar. “The bottom line is there’s improvements that need to be made and the NBA has a great voice and a lot of resources and a lot of influence and we are appreciative they are helping in aiding in a lot of the things we care about. So that’s really important.”

Malcolm Brogdon: A restless energy has …

Malcolm Brogdon: A restless energy has consumed me for the past week, and initially I couldn’t figure out how to relieve it. I’ve witnessed protests over the past decade for Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown and all the other people suffering from excessive violence, but this one felt different. When I joined Jaylen Brown, a member of the Boston Celtics, last weekend to march with peaceful protesters in Atlanta, I gained a greater respect for the bravery and courage it has required for generations of leaders before us to stand up to their oppressors. With police flanked on either side of our crowd, the Georgia heat beamed and the fear was visceral.

LeBron James makes statement about shooting of unarmed Ahmaud Arbery

Video released on Wednesday showed unarmed black jogger Ahmaud Arbery being chased down and shot by two men over two months ago.

LeBron James made sure his voice was heard in the wake of new video footage released on Wednesday of unarmed black Georgia man Ahmaud Arbery being chased and shot dead by two men in the coastal town of Brunswick while he was going for a jog.

Arbery, 25, was out for a jog in his town before being chased by two men that the police have identified as Gregory McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, 34. There have been no charges filed on the case, but the video being released has made the story much bigger and much more unjust. LeBron James expressed his anger on Wednesday morning about the lack of safety for black men in America.

James made a similar statement on his Twitter page about Arbery’s death.

NBC Sports Bay Area’s Logan Murdock …