Some of America's top Black men's and women's basketball coaches said they're hopeful about recent hiring trends for minority coaches but also know they'll face pressure to win for those trends to continue.
After the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, schools around the country vowed to do more to invest in diversity. Last year, more than 51 percent of the coaching vacancies in men's basketball and 47 percent of the coaching vacancies in women's basketball were filled by Black coaches.
"I'm confident it's going to stick in the years to come because my expectation is that we're going to be successful," said Duke women's basketball coach Kara Lawson, as part of ESPN's Martin Luther King Jr.