Doc Rivers blasts Senator Hawley
Doc Rivers blasts Senator Hawley
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00:00 On a media call with Sports Illustrated, Doc Rivers blasted Senator Josh Hawley over his
00:08 dispute with Adrian Wojnowski.
00:11 Yesterday, Senator Hawley leaked a conversation between him and Woj, basically leaking that
00:19 Woj gave him the F-bomb instead of the Woj bomb.
00:23 And the conversation and the argument stemmed from the fact that he criticized Woj for the
00:27 fact that players didn't speak about China on the back of their jerseys, which Woj has
00:34 no bearing in.
00:36 Like none of that has anything to do with Woj, but he felt the need to attack Woj about
00:40 it.
00:41 So Doc wasn't having that.
00:43 And Doc went on a small brief tirade during the media call, just blasting him, basically
00:50 saying every single time we try to stand up for change, somebody changes the message.
00:56 The NBA has done more for the military than any other league.
00:59 He's willing to bet that the NBA has done more for the military than the senator has.
01:05 And ultimately said they'll put quotes about the police if Senator Hawley cares about the
01:12 BLM movement.
01:14 And it's very interesting from Doc's perspective, because Doc is somebody who's experienced
01:18 racism firsthand with having his house burnt down at some point.
01:23 And him and Steve Kirpin, two of the most outspoken coaches, and today he really lit