Within a few hours, her words had called the Hawks to action and planted a seed in coach Lloyd Pierce, who has taken on a leadership role with the National Basketball Coaches Association’s committee, formed in the wake of George Floyd’s death, to discuss solutions to racial injustice.
“I honestly didn’t even think they were going to read my email, because I’m probably the lowest of the totem pole of the new people. I’m brand new… But I was just looking at stuff on Instagram and Twitter and CNN and I was just mad,” Harvin-Langley said. “I was tired of hearing the same story and seeing the same outcomes.