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It was recently announced that the National Basketball Coaches Association intends to establish a racial injustice and reform committee as a response to the recent death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police and several other acts of racial discrimination that has mired the nation of late. One of the individuals that will be spearheading this committee is Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers.
In a recent statement, Rivers explained what challenges they expect to face on the onset of this newfound initiative, as well as the most important issues he believes they must address.
Article Continues Below“It’s been fantastic, we are really working on our messaging right now, and that's the tough part, we don’t want to get lost,” the Clippers boss explained on The Adam Schefter Podcast,” via Sabreena Merchant of Clips Nation. “These things are so big, and so you get lost in trying to do everything.
“There’s 20 different things we need to do to make this country better. Education for me is number one, we gotta have equal education. Police brutality is one, the incarceration system is one, so what we’re trying to do is pick one and stick to it and see it through even when we’re no longer coaching.”
Rivers went on to expound on what type of approach the committee intends to take.
“We have 30 cities, when you think about it, that we can touch, and each individual coach will pick a grassroots organization to get involved in that will have lasting effect and that the owners back us of each team,” Doc Rivers added. “And I think we can have some impact here, we just gotta pick right, and that’s always hard.”
As the Clippers tactician explained above, each coach of every NBA team will be tasked to implement the committee's directives in their respective cities, which should properly maximize the reach of their initiatives.
