While the activists outside Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Monday night chanted and shouted and staged die-ins in protest of yet another unarmed black man's death-by-cop in America, royalty mingled inside. Jay Z and Beyonce hobnobbed courtside with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the violence and dysfunction of the angst-ridden nation beyond the arena walls almost seemed worlds removed
Almost, but not quite. There were Eric Garner's final words — "I can't breathe. I can't breathe." — calling out powerfully from T-shirts worn by several players on both the hometown Nets and visiting Cleveland Cavaliers. They were all essentially identical, the shirts, but none spoke as loudly as the one worn by LeBron James, the NBA's biggest star and arguably the world's most famous athlete Read more...
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