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Brett Brown Fired As Head Coach Of 76ers
BRETT BROWN
The Philadelphia 76ers saw their season end in disappoint- ing fashion on Sunday, and they have wasted no time mov- ing on from head coach Brett Brown.
Brown was fired by the Sixers on Monday, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski first reported. There are expected to be more moves coming within the team’s front office.
General manager Elton Brand is expected to continue to oversee basketball opera- tions.
He was hired before the 2013-14 season by Sam Hinkie, then the team's gen- eral manager. In his first three seasons on the job, he earned just 47 victories.
Richard Sherman Supports Earl Thomas After Release
RICHARD SHERMAN AND EARL THOMAS
Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas are still on good terms, so it’s no surprise that Sherman had something to say about his ex-teammate’s release on Sunday.
Sherman said he was “sad” to see what happened to Thomas. He added that he ex- pects the veteran safety to play with a point to prove once Thomas finds a new team.
Sherman’s current team has been named as a possible suitor for Thomas. Maybe Sherman will be doing some recruiting behind the scenes in the days to come.
‘We Are Scared As Black
Kobe Bryant Short Film Better
Narrated By Kendrick Lamar
People In America’:
Launches Nike's 'Mamba Week'
LeBron James Reacts To
Nike is unveiling touching tributes to Kobe Bryant's legacy.
On Sunday — which would have been the late basketball star's 42nd birthday — the brand launched its "Mamba Week," a celebration that fea- tures a lineup of programming and exclusive product offerings inspired by Bryant.
The weeklong event began with a new short film titled Bet- ter, which is narrated by rapper Kendrick Lamar. In the powerful 90-second film, a montage of throwback footage of Bryant and other star ath- letes (including Serena Williams, Megan Rapinoe and Naomi Osaka, among others) creates a rousing mes- sage about aspiring to be better in everything one does.
According to Nike's press
Jacob Blake Shooting
KOBE BRYANT
release, "Mamba Week" will honor Bryant through "three key efforts," the first being a $1 million donation to the Mamba and Mambacita Sports Foun- dation in honor of Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gi- anna.
Nike will also release a number of the late athlete's products — including his sneakers and jerseys — for the first time since his tragic death during "Mamba Week."
LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers blew out their playoff opponent, the Portland Trail Blazers, on “Mamba Day” Monday.
But honoring the late Kobe Bryant with a win was not the only thing on his mind after the game. Another un- armed Black man was shot by the police.
“If you’re sitting here telling me that there was no way to subdue that gentleman, or detain him, or before the fir- ing of guns, then you’re sitting here, you’re lying to not only me, you’re lying to every African American, every Black person in the community be- cause we see it over and over and over,” James told re- porters of the Kenosha, Wis. police officer who grabbed 29- year-old Jacob Blake by the t-shirt as he was getting into his car, and fired seven shots at point blank range into his back. He is currently hospital- ized. According to a family at-
LEBRON JAMES
torney, his three children aged three, five and eight were in the back seat.
“If you watch the video, there (were) multiple mo- ments where if they wanted to they could have tackled him, they could have grabbed him. They could have done that. Why does it always have to get to a point where we see the guns firing? ...And his family is there. The kids are there. It’s in broad daylight ... It’s just, quite frankly, it’s just f**ked up in our community.”
Roger Goodell To Colin
Kaepernick: ‘I Wish We
Had Listened Earlier’
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell continues to express regret over the way he and the league treated Colin Kaeper- nick in 2016 when the former San Francisco 49ers quarter- back peacefully protested dur- ing the national anthem.
Appearing on former NFL player Emmanuel Acho’s social media video series “Un- comfortable Conversations with a Black Man,” Goodell was asked by Acho to give his current take on Kaepernick, who hasn’t played in the NFL since the 2016 season.
“I wish we had listened earlier, Kaep, to what you were kneeling about and what you were trying to bring atten- tion to” Goodell said, adding that he’s also disappointed with himself over how the league’s players’ peaceful protests were being portrayed. “What our players are doing is
ROGER GOODELL
being mischaracterized. These are not people who are unpa- triotic. They’re not disloyal. They’re not against our mili- tary. What they were trying to do is exercise their right to bring attention to something that needs to get fixed. That misrepresentation of who they were and what they were doing was the thing that really gnawed at me.”
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