The NAACP and its president and CEO, Derrick Johnson, wrote a letter to the players' associations for MLB, the NBA, the NFL, the NHL and the WNBA, urging athletes to consider not playing for teams in the state of Texas given recent legislation regarding abortion, voting rights and COVID-19 health mandates.
Those leagues contain the following teams:
- MLB: Houston Astros and Texas Rangers
- NBA: Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and San Antonio Spurs
- NFL: Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans
- NHL: Dallas Stars
- WNBA: Dallas Wings
"Over the past few months, legislators in Texas have passed archaic policies, disguised as laws, that directly violate privacy rights and a woman's freedom to choose, restrict access to free and fair elections for Black and brown voters, and increase the risk of contracting coronavirus," Johnson wrote.