sports diplomacy

Former NBA player Ira Newble at a refugee camp on the Chad/Sudan border.

A former NBA player who knows sports activism says he’s lost respect for Dennis Rodman

January 10, 2014Global Politics

There’s a way to do basketball diplomacy right, says former NBA player Ira Newble, who spoke up on the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan in 2007. And he says that’s not what Dennis Rodman is doing in North Korea.

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