Prior to Friday’s 143-130 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans, Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle praised Atlanta Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce for helping spearhead last season’s Coaches For Racial Initiative.
“I will say that Lloyd Pierce as our lead chair on Coaches For Racial Justice has been an inspirational and heroic figure in the coach’s association with his leadership in the fight against racial injustice,” Carlisle said. “He was the major impetus for our forming of Coaches For Racial Justice. He was the one that was the point man and did the work and establishing a relationship with Bryan Stevenson (the founder and executive director of the) Equal Justice Initiative.