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Dominique Wilkins Reveals Untold Stories from the First MLK Day Games 40 Years Ago—What It Truly Meant to Play That Day

Dominique Wilkins Reveals Untold Stories from the First MLK Day Games 40 Years Ago—What It Truly Meant to Play That Day

Players will be wearing special Martin Luther King Jr. Day T-shirts during warmups. As part of the broadcast on NBC and Peacock, Donovan Mitchell will talk about the impact of Dr. King in Cleveland. Then Karl-Anthony Towns will do the same for New York and Isaiah Stewart for Detroit.

Those players understand the sacrifices Dr. King made and the impact he had. However, Wilkins is concerned we are losing some of that understanding over time. For a younger generation of players, many know that playing on MLK Day is a huge stage — one of the biggest days on the NBA calendar — but Wilkins added that those players have grown up in a United States that is better because of the changes Dr. King brought. Because of those changes, they may not fully grasp his sacrifices.

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