Washington Wizards guard John Wall said on Caron Butler's podcast Tuesday that his team and the Washington Mystics plan on marching to the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial on Juneteenth, via Chase Hughesof NBC Sports Washington.
He noted the plan is to start the march from Capital One Arena.
Juneteenth is the annual June 19 celebration of the end of slavery and the Confederacy, which happened in 1865. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recently announced the league will observe it as a league holiday, per ESPN's Adam Schefter.
The killing of George Floyd on May 25 sparked nationwide protests against police brutality and systemic racism.