Get Up!] to talk about the NBA schedule just as the George Floyd news was breaking. And it really messed me up. Like, here I am, ESPN is asking me to go on to talk about NBA schedules.
Meanwhile, as a Black woman, I am very in tune to what I represent,” the Nigerian-American athlete says. “There's no way I was going to go on TV and just talk about something that didn’t really matter, like scores.”“If I don’t show up to work, then that’s letting someone else win."For two days Ogwumike gathered her thoughts. “I was sad, I was angry, I was frustrated,” she says.
She sat with those feelings. And then she agreed to go on TV. “I was given the task by certain shows to explain Black Lives Matter.
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