NBA players are the most powerful employees in America ? and they know it - Business Insider
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James was also once a vice president of the union, a turning point for the unit's high-profile leadership.In 1959, a few years after the NBA players union formed, Minneapolis Lakers star Elgin Baylor sat out a high-profile game after a hotel refused to house him with the rest of his white teammates.Baylor told his teammate and fellow NBA great Rod Hundley, "Rod, I'm a human being. "All of us felt like we were slaves in the sense we had no rights."The owners agreed to the players' demands, and the game was delayed about five minutes.The next major threat of a strike happened many years later in 2014, when players were ready to strike during a nationally televised game in the aftermath of audio being leaked to the media of Clippers owner Donald Sterling telling his girlfriend to delete a photo of her and Magic Johnson because he is Black. James' willingness to advocate for social change is one of many examples of the NBA community growing more vocal as the Black Lives Matter movement has emerged in the past decade.Perhaps James is so vocal about his political beliefs because as the game's best player for much of his career, he has long known something his colleagues are all starting to come around to: His power lies in how he can't be replaced.
As said here by Nick Lichtenberg, Allana Akhtar