The Sixers’ Doc Rivers and the Spurs’ Gregg Popovich are not ones to hold their tongues. After Daunte Wright’s death at the hands of the police in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota on Sunday, the two long-time coaches let their feelings, emotions, and frustrations be known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think we have to stop saying it\u2019s frustrating for all Black Americans,\u201d said Rivers before their game against the Mavericks. \u201cI think we should be frustrated for all Americans. I don\u2019t know if it was a mistake or not. I saw the body cam video like everyone else, but I know that frustration is a real thing for everybody and for us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rivers did not hold back last year when discussing Jacob Blake, the Black man who was shot multiple times by police in Wisconsin in August of 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“All you hear is Donald Trump, and all of them, talking about fear,” said Rivers after Blake’s shooting<\/a>. “We’re the ones getting killed. We’re the ones getting shot.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Monday night, Doc Rivers sounded off on yet another senseless killing of an unarmed Black man by the police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n