Describing progress and pain, the Clippers and Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday reacted to the guilty verdict of Derek Chauvin with “mixed emotions,” as Los Angeles center DeMarcus Cousins said, after the Clippers’ 113-112 victory.
Eleven months after Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, knelt on the neck of George Floyd, a Black man, leading to a death that sparked outrage and calls for racial justice around the world and within the NBA, the league’s players and coaches said they welcomed the jury’s decision Tuesday to convict Chauvin of second-degree murder, third-degree murder and manslaughter.