Milwaukee Bucks wing Sterling Brown is reportedly among the players who have been appointed to the NBA’s newly implemented social justice coalition.
While his future with the Milwaukee Bucks remains unclear at this stage, Sterling Brown’s impact and work off the court has been easy to see as he’s found his place in the NBA.
Of course, that perhaps wouldn’t have been made so if Brown had not gone through his wrongful arrest at the hands of the Milwaukee Police Department back in January of 2018. Like so many who have dealt with such a traumatic experience and have lived to talk about it, Brown has used the incident to empower people of color in the fight against the racism and the injustices that exist all around us.
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Now, Brown is among the NBA players who have been appointed to the league’s newly formed social justice coalition as was first reported by The Athletic’s Shams Charania ($$) Tuesday morning.
Along with Brown, Portland Trail Blazers forward Carmelo Anthony and Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell will make up the league’s coalition. In addition to that, Harrison Barnes of the Sacramento Kings and Tobias Harris of the Philadelphia 76ers will serve as the player reps for the NBA Foundation.
Not only for Brown’s own high-profile experience, it’s fitting that the 25-year-old and a player from the Milwaukee Bucks organization will be a member of the coalition.
After all, the reason why the committees were formed to begin with came as a result of the discussions that took place following the Bucks’ walkout ahead of Game 5 against the Orlando Magic back in late August.
It was Brown who, along with veteran Bucks guard George Hill, read the team’s statement on why they chose to protest playing Game 5 in the wake of the shooting of Jacob Blake down in Kenosha. When the Bucks held their protest in the city of Milwaukee back in June after the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and countless others, it was Brown who led the march throughout the streets of Milwaukee with megaphone in hand.
Again, it shouldn’t have taken Brown’s own experience with the Milwaukee Police Department for him to become a leading voice on matters like race, police brutality, racial injustice, etc. But having gone through it and his ongoing civil suit with the city has opened up opportunities for Brown to be a guiding light on such subjects, just as he talked about with ESPN’s Eric Woodyard back in June:
"“It’s allowed my case to bring light to the injustices and everything that’s going on in the city of Milwaukee and their police department. So, the platform that we have is powerful and it does bring recognition and it does change mindsets and it does get dialogue going and it gets people aware and it gets people fired up. It gets them ready to make something happen to get change with injustice and equality and all of the above for our community. So I’m going to continue to use my platform and the resources that I have been waiting for really.”"
That platform has only grown bigger in light of Brown’s appointment to the league’s social justice coalition and the impact that he will make in his new position will go a long way in the fight against racism and social injustice.