All-Star Warriors point guard Stephen Curry has been named the league’s 2022-23 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion, the NBA has announced in a press release.
Curry’s efforts in the social justice sphere of late include promoting voting initiatives and building awareness about community safety. He and his wife Ayesha Curry run a non-profit, Eat. Learn. Play., focused on ensuring nutritious foods be provided to children in underserved Oakland communities. Curry also runs a lifestyle brand, UNDERRATED, and Unanimous Media, a multimedia company, which are designed to create opportunities for underrepresented athletes and creators, respectively.
As a condition of Curry’s win this year, the NBA will donate $100K to the social justice cause of Curry’s choosing, the University of San Francisco Institute for Nonviolence and Social Justice.
Grizzlies big man Jaren Jackson Jr., Spurs reserve point guard Tre Jones, Suns starting point guard Chris Paul and Celtics power forward Grant Williams were the other four finalists for the award. All will earn $25K from the league, to be donated to the charity of their choosing.
There’s more out of the Pacific Division:
- Kings majority owner Vivek Ranadive was among seven finalists bidding for NHL club the Ottawa Senators, but has since fallen out of the running, per Randy Diamond of The Sacramento Bee. Each of the seven finalists had reportedly been proposing purchase prices north of $800MM. Ranadive’s ownership group bought Sacramento a decade ago for $533MM. The club’s valuation is currently estimated at $2.5 billion.
- The Suns’ interviews for their head coaching vacancy might conclude this weekend, reports John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 FM Phoenix (Twitter link). Former Raptors head coach Nick Nurse and Kings associate head coach Jordi Fernandez interviewed on Thursday. Ex-Lakers head coach Frank Vogel and ex-Sixers head coach Doc Rivers, who coached Phoenix starting point guard Chris Paul on the Clippers, are set to meet with Suns executives on Friday.
- Clippers team president Lawrence Frank released a statement thanking and congratulating former Los Angeles GM Michael Winger on his new job as team president for the Wizards (Twitter link). “Michael is one of the NBA’s brightest team-builders, a strategic and creative thinker who is always a step ahead,” Frank said in part.
$800 billion, huh? Canadian inflation must be up the wazoo…
They trying to buy the Sens or all of Canada?
might wanna fix the sentence that says the finalists are proposing “prices north of 880 billion.” that would be some purchase.
No wonder Ranadive dropped out of the bidding! “I’ll pay $750 billion, but $800 billion?? Forget about it!!”…
Well, $800 Billion may include the purchase of the arena, haven’t you seen the prices of real estate up here! Obviously joking, but real estate is still stupid in Canada.
It’s stupid *everywhere*.
Ranadive dropping out is probably best for Ottawa fans. He probably was trying to get a NHL franchise for Sacramento.
I see Curry’s advocacy of a fraudulent trading platform didn’t hurt his reputation…perhaps he should spend some activism on trying to get people’s money back from Sam Bankman-Fried. Imho, his unfortunate and ill informed advocacy of a Ponzi Scheme outweighs anything else he might have done, justice-wise.
I guess that makes me a jerk.
Since that company fooled billionaires and even the NBA but you only count Curry liable. Its better than running a fake cancer charity while you pocket the money. Still 74 million people voted for that con artist.
Yes, it does. Good call.