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Everything I knew and read about Mississippi — how they killed Medgar Evers and the trouble with the Freedom Riders and everything else — it was terrible. That’s all I knew. That was the image I had in my mind going into that game.

“But when I looked at his face, looked into his eyes, I just felt this warmth. It was like he was saying, ‘I’m glad to be here to play you guys. Let’s play some basketball.’”