Doc Rivers uses training camp not just as the usual time to rehash X’s and O’s but as a daily history class.
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Doc Rivers is at ease using his platform as an NBA coach to fight bigotry and racial injustice, campaign for politicians he believes in and advocate for social change on themes ranging from poverty to police brutality.
Rivers is fine with wading into political waters — and the older he gets and the more he learns about modern issues and Black history with deep meaning to him, the more he speaks out.. At police misconduct. At the horrors of racism that have shadowed him his entire life. At the idea that, even as coach of the Philadelphia 76ers, it can still be hard to find his place as a Black man in America.
“When you have camp at home, you don’t get that,” Rivers said. “They go home at the end of practice and they don’t spend time with each other.” “My people, my African people coming here, the people that gave up their lives for us to be able to be in this position, it was good to learn about all of that,” said center Joel Embiid, who was born in Cameroon and recently became a U.S. citizen.
Rivers believed the experiences resonated with a team full of 20-somethings all the way up to coaching staff veterans.
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