Thunder assistant Maurice Cheeks wrote an essay in the Players' Tribune, describing a police encounter in 2008 in which he was discriminately targeted because of his race.
Cheeks, after being let go by the 76ers, went to Miami to reset and clear his mind. On a bike ride back to his apartment, a police car started following him. An officer jumped out of the car and yelled at Cheeks to get off his bike.
Cheeks was handcuffed and pushed to the curb. He asked the officer, "Why? What did I do?"
"You look like a guy in a white T-shirt who just robbed a house," the officer told him.