The NBA can make seismic change
Adam Silver says “we may be the most uniquely qualified organization in the world to affect change.”
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BY DAVID THORPE
The Confederate emblem was on the state flag of Mississippi for 126 years. It took football about three days to remove it. ESPN News services:
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey threatened on June 18 to not host any future conference championship events in Mississippi until the state changed its flag. The SEC last ran a championship event in Mississippi in May 2016.
A day after the SEC's warning, the NCAA expanded its Confederate flag policy to prohibit all of its championship events from being held in states where the flag is flown.
A broad coalition of legislators on Sunday passed the landmark legislation to change the 126-year-old Mississippi state flag, capping a weekend of emotional debate and decades of effort by Black lawmakers and others who see the rebel emblem as a symbol of hatred.
It gets you wondering: What can the NBA get done? Big meaningful changes are coming to America and the world. We know there are all kinds of conversations going on involving players, the uni…