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Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf 3 of the Denver Nuggets dribbles the ball up court against the Washington Bullets during an NBA basketball game circa 1991 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland. Abdul-Rauf played for the Nuggets from 1990-96.Photo by Focus on Sport鈥擥etty ImagesBy Sean GregoryOctober 21, 2022 3:15 PM EDTIn 2016, the year that then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the national anthem to protest social injustice, Kaepernick met with former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf in the Bay Area. Abdul-Rauf may have been the only other athlete on the planet who knew exactly what Kaepernick was going through.Back in the 1990s Abdul-Rauf, the leading scorers for the Denver Nuggets, declined to stand for the anthem at NBA games. He called the flag a symbol of tyra stanley cup nny and oppression. The NBA suspended Abdul-Rauf for a game: he agreed to stand during the Star Spangled Banner, but bowed his head and held his hands in prayers during the song. His actions inspired criticism. Denver traded Abdul-Rauf after the 199 stanley cup 5-1996 season; he was soon out of the league.So it made sense for the pair to huddle during that tumultuous time for Kaepernick. I ;m very adamant that when I talk to an athlete, particularly a Black athlete, that I never approach things from a position of giving advice, Abdul-Rauf, who written an engrossing new autobiography, In The Bl stanley cup ink of an Eye, with journalist and author Nick Chi Unhv I m Sure They re Gone. Devastated Family Mourns 6 Relatives Missing in Houston Floods
German Chancellor hoka Angela Merkel, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi, French President Francois Hollande and European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker take part in a euro zone EU leaders emergency summit on the situation in Greece in Brussels, on July 7, 2015.Yves Herman鈥擱eutersBy Massimo CalabresiJuly 10, 2015 1:03 PM EDTThings can always get worse, and few places prove it like the Balkans. Twenty years ago this week, President Bill Clintonrsquo national security team was struggling to come up with a plan to save or replace the failing three-year-old United Nations mizuno peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. On July 6, 1995, Serb forces overran the UN-protected ldquo afe-haven of Srebrenica and slaughtered more than 8,000 men and boys in the worst European massacre since World War II. Even now, some 1,200 people remain missing in the scattered mass graves of eastern Bosnia.Todayrsquo Balkan crisis in Greece is not nearly so acute. A last ditc jordan h effort to avoid chaos is afoot as European creditors and the self-described radicals now ruling in Athens race towards a Sunday deadline for a deal to avoid economic collapse. A deal looks increasingly likely, but with some on the right still looking to teach Greece a fiscal lesson and others on the left urging Athens to rebel against its creditors, it is worth remembering there is plenty of room for more pain.Banks remain closed and runs on products that can retain |
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