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UNC Basketball: Reggie Bullock honored as Social Justice Champion

It’s award season in the NBA, and over the weekend UNC’s own Reggie Bullock was named the 2022 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion recipient.

The award is only in its second year of being awarded, and was an initiative by the NBA to highlight the outstanding work of their players following social upheaval in 2020. The NBA itself describes the award this way:

...an annual honor that will recognize a current NBA player for pursuing social justice and upholding the league’s decades-long values of equality, respect and inclusion. The award is named after six-time NBA champion and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.