Doc Rivers was in his mid-20s and just years removed from playing high school basketball at Proviso East in Maywood when he first met John Lewis.
While playing for the Atlanta Hawks, Rivers befriended Andrew Young, the civil rights advocate who had served as that city's Mayor and launched a campaign to serve as Georgia's governor.
"I went on a campaign trip with John Lewis and Andy Young," Rivers said Saturday morning during his Zoom media availability from the NBA's restart on the Disney World campus in Florida. "Just think about that. I was, I don't know, 26, maybe 27, and we flew to Albany, Ga.