Join Craig Hodges and Dave Zirin in a discussion about The Last Dance, Michael Jordan and how it feels to be blackballed by the NBA.
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Craig Hodges will have this dance.
Craig Hodges won two championships with Michael Jordan and the Bulls but was conspicuously erased from Jordan's docuseries "The Last Dance."
As Jemele Hill said in a recent tweet, " When they were addressing Jordan’s lack of involvement in social justice issues, that would have been a great time to discuss what happened to Craig Hodges. #TheLastDanceAs."
Join Craig Hodges and Dave Zirin in a discussion about The Last Dance, Michael Jordan and how it all relates to why Craig was blackballed in the prime of his career.
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More on Craig's recent memoir Long Shot:
Two-time NBA champion Craig Hodges has never been shy about speaking truth to power.
As a member of the 1992 world-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H. W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic inequality. Hodges was also a vocal union activist, initiated a boycott against Nike, and spoke out forcefully against police brutality in the wake of the Rodney King beating.
But his outspokenness cost him dearly. In the prime of his career, after ten NBA seasons, Hodges was blackballed from the NBA for using his platform as a professional athlete to stand up for justice.
In this powerful, passionate, and captivating memoir, Hodges shares the stories including encounters with Nelson Mandela, Coretta Scott King, Jim Brown, R. Kelly, Michael Jordan, and others from his lifelong fight for equality for African Americans.
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Craig Hodges played in the NBA for ten seasons, in which he led the league in three-point shooting percentage three times. He won two NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls in 1991 and 1992, and is a three-time Three Point Contest champion at All-Star weekend.
Dave Zirin is the sports editor for the Nation and the author of several books, most recently Brazil's Dance with the Devil. Named one of UTNE Reader’s “Fifty Visionaries Who Are Changing Our World,” Zirin is a frequent guest on MSNBC, ESPN, and Democracy Now! He hosts WPFW's The Collision with Etan Thomas and has been called "the best sportswriter in the United States," by Robert Lipsyte.
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Get Craig's book, Long Shot here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/980-long-shot
Get Dave Zirin's latest, Jim Brown: Last Man Standing here: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9780399173448
Get Michael Bennet's memoir, Things that Make White People Uncomfortable, co-written with Dave Zirin, here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1332-things-that-make-white-people-uncomfortable
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