"I didn’t see any of that" - Dominique Wilkins says he was one of the few black athletes that Boston fans weren’t racist toward

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NBA legend Dominique Wilkins discusses his surprising Boston Celtics stint and how he felt respected in Boston, contrasting the experiences of past Black athletes.Dominique Wilkins breathed Atlanta Hawks almost all his career and it was almost too much to imagine him anywhere else — much less in Celtics green and white. The same team who had ruled the Eastern Conference for decades, leaving teams like Wilkins' Hawks constantly chasing shadows. For a player who had become the heart of Georgia basketball, Boston felt like foreign territory. Georgia had given him something North Carolina never did — love. Real, open-armed love....
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