Welcome to the Athletic NBA Show Monday through Friday on the Athletic Podcast Network.

Coming up on today's show we have two-time champion two-time all-star 15-year

NBA veteran David West, one of my favorite guys to talk to. We talk about

athletes voices, a program where he's partnering with Harvard and Steve Kerr,

the Warriors coach and many other elite

athletes to help athletes be educated and empowered when it comes to athlete

activism. We also talk about his old Warriors days and the Meningitis scare in March of 2018 that I wrote about a

while back and that he has never opened up quite to this degree about and and the

idea that it did almost rip the warriors apart that it was a very stressful time for them

David talks about that he also dives into the NBA's problem with diversity and the

idea that he thinks the coaching staff's front offices need to see more improvement when it comes to

diversity specifically and he's been vocal on Twitter about this his

disapproval of the next hiring of Tom Tibbido and why coming up on the show. a basketball that we all love and talk about every single day.

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To be able to bring people together.

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and the message to evacueing is not talking about players on other teams.

What did I do?

The charges filed impermissible contacts.

Right or wrong?

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