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In staff memo, NBA's Adam Silver addresses racial tensions

by AP Basketball Writer
| June 1, 2020 12:03 AM

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver sent a memo to the league’s staffers Sunday night to address the latest racial tensions in the country, sparked most recently by the death last week of a black man who was in handcuffs when a Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck as he pleaded that he couldn’t breathe.

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