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Mavs acknowledge its “an honor” to play on MLK Day

As he reflects on where he is at this stage of his life, it didn’t take Nico Harrison very long to describe what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. means to him.

“It means everything,” he said.” If I go back to college, I had a big poster of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on my wall.

“And that kind of just embodied the essence of being a black man. He was somebody I always looked up to.”

Harrison knows Dr. King was somebody who had a strong relationship with the NBA, a league that wholeheartedly supported the civil rights icon and staged its initial Martin Luther King Jr.