League ready to help players take 'meaningful action' on social issues

[Sports News]

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The National Basketball Association and the NBA Players Association are consulting with players over how to take "meaningful action" on social issues as the recent deaths of two African-American men reverberated around the US sports world on Thursday. San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has divided public opinion with his decision not to stand for the national anthem before NFL games, in protest at the treatment of minorities and police brutality in the United States. Kaepernick's gesture of kneeling during the "Star-Spangled Banner" has been imitated by a scattering of players around the NFL, as well as by US women's footballer Megan Rapinoe and, on Wednesday, the entire Indiana Fever WNBA team before a playoff game in the NBA-affiliated women's league.

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