Playing basketball Quote by John Rocker

Removing Donald Sterling from the NBA solves nothing. It sets a precedent that will likely boomerang and harm the black players and coaches who…

— Jason Whitlock

For whatever reason, the people that don't appreciate Duke basketball or don't pull for Duke basketball, they have a tendency to vilify one of…

— Christian Laettner

Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad.

— Will Smith

In the NBA, as in nowhere else in America, white people are utterly beholden to black people, and they're not about to let us…

— David Shields

With the pervasive popularity of rap music and a black man sitting in the White House, there's no reason to pretend the NBA has…

— Jason Whitlock

I do not believe that Darren Wilson should've been charged, but Brown should not have lost his life. Brown and Trayvon Martin should've gotten…

— Niger Innis

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom…

— David Stern

Know niggas that never made it everybody would sweat him he jumped out the whole park, NBA never met him what good is being…

— Joe Budden

What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.

— Eazy-E

I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and…

— Mark Twain

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

— Joe Biden

I felt that if the public found out that a black man made a fool of David Duke, his attempts at a political career…

— Ron Stallworth