He feels proud. Pau Gasol He has confessed to feeling admiration for the reaction and protest of his colleagues in the NBA against him racism in U.S: “So far we have come”. Gasol, who is unemployed recovering from a long injury, referred to the boycott of the playoffs started by a former team of his like the Milwaukee Bucks and that left two days without NBA in Orlando.
“It is a critical moment, a moment in which American society is realizing that after more than 400 years of racial discrimination and racism in this country, it is time to say this far we have come,” he said this Friday in TVE.
The players thus reacted to a new wave of protest against the racism in the country and to demand political measures against police abuses. The protests have multiplied again throughout the country after the seven shots that Jacob Blake received from behind by a policeman. The reaction at all levels has been enormous, and in the case of the NBA has had a special impact.
The Spanish international highlighted the work of the NBA to “use” their “voices to help make that change happen.” “Very proud of my teammates, of the players of the NBA, for having taken this step, which has also led other leagues and other athletes to position themselves and that this translates into positive changes for a better, fairer and more egalitarian society, “he said.
