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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: What the NBA Championship Means to Me
By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — 2021
Why is basketball different from all other sports leagues in embodying America’s social conscience? Perhaps because 83.1 percent of the players and 60 percent of the fans are non-white, making it the only major North American sport in which the majority of fans aren’t white.
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