On Hoops and Social Justice, w/ NBA exec James Cadogan
The Crossover NBA Show
SI NBA
4.6 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On the Friday edition, Howard Beck welcomes James Cadogan, the first ever executive director of the National Basketball Social Justice coalition. They discuss the one-year anniversary of the Jacob Blake shooting and the player wildcat strike that followed, the NBA’s support of police reform and voting rights and what the else coalition hopes to accomplish.
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| 0:45.9 | What up? |
| 0:46.7 | It's the crossover pod Friday edition. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm Howard Beck, senior writer for Sports Illustrated. |
| 0:51.8 | My guest today is the first person ever to lead the NBA's |
| 0:55.6 | new social justice campaign. His name is James Kudgan, and he is the executive director of |
| 1:00.7 | the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition. You'll recall the league created this coalition |
| 1:05.7 | about a year ago in the wake of the Jacob Blake shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin. That event, of course, |
| 1:12.4 | sparked a wildcat strike by first the Milwaukee Bucks and then the entire NBA. And the result |
| 1:18.7 | of that strike was coming together with the league officials and league owners to agree on some |
| 1:25.3 | new goals and efforts to push forward on social justice, things like |
| 1:30.4 | police reform, things like voting rights. |
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