MEMPHIS – The 76ers had a history lesson Monday morning.
While in the Blues City, Brett Brown didn’t want to pass up an opportunity to take them to the National Civil Rights Museum before Monday’s shootaround. It was the coach’s seventh time there. But for six of his players, it was first time at the museum that traces the Civil Rights Movement from the 17th century to the present. The museum is actually built around the former Lorraine Motel, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
“Personally I always leave there with mixed emotions,” Brown said, “with some level of shame and some level of recognition that the world is getting a little bit better.