Name: Doc Rivers sends an emotional message on social injustice | NBA on ESPN
Uploaded: 2020-11-03T18:36:24.000Z
Duration: 9 min 1 s
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You know, what stands out to me is, um, just just watching the Republican revenge in our convention and they're spewing this fear, right?

Like all you hear Donald Trump and all of them talking about fear, we're the ones getting killed.

We're the ones that were denied toe live in certain communities.

We've been shot, and all you do is keep hearing a fear.

It's it's amazing why we keep loving in this country in this country does not love his back.

We gotta do better, but we got to demand better, like we got.

We protest and they send riot guards, right.

They go to Michigan with guns and they're spitting on cops and nothing happens.

The training has to change in the police force.

Unions have to be taken down in the police force.

We're not trying to defund the police and take all their money away.

We're trying to get them to protect us, just like they protect everybody else.

I didn't want to talk about it before the game because it's so hard.

Like, just keep watching that that video.

If you watch that video, you don't need to be black to be outraged.

You don't You need to be American and outrage.

And how dare the Republicans talk about fear.

Were the ones having to talk every every black child?

What White father has to give his son to talk about being careful?

If you get pulled over, it's just ridiculous.

And it just keeps getting it keeps going.

All we're asking is you live up to the Constitution.

Coach could have a follow up on that real quick.

I mean, there's been players from the rappers and the Celtics sort of way.

You know one thing I said, I think you always play waken fight for justice, but we still should do our jobs.

I really believe that because doing our jobs people are seeing excellence from from Americans, black Americans and white Americans.

But if my players told me no would be no, I can tell you that, Um, it's when you watch that video.

How did they ever get that out of their mind?

How those kids ever normal and you've been in the spot deciding boycott boycott?

What would your message be to players who are in this situation weighing these kinds of questions from my messages Go after your dreams.

You don't allow anything to take you away from your dreams.

They all pulled together, and at the end of the day, the one thing we decided when we were little kids wear in the backyard by ourselves and we have these dreams about winning the championship.

Donald Sterling was not in our dreams, and neither were these cops.

They're not taking our dreams away, all right?

Like I should be talking about basketball on DSO It's what we do.

We're aggressive and more importantly, like it is a human game when you make mistakes.

But we just had so few game plan mistakes, uh, that I thought it was It was awesome.

Obviously, you said you weren't playing and obviously excellence back to how far is it?

You know, it's because we have to like, um, our jobs our were basketball players.

And we should still be able to do our jobs.

But it's hard sometimes, like, uh, today was hard.