Atlanta Hawks coach Lloyd Pierce is one of just a few black head coaches in the NBA, but says now is the time athletes around the world are ‘speaking louder and being heard’.

Pierce was joined by This Is Us softball player Kiki Stokes for one of a series of BBC discussions about racism and whether we will see change following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May which sparked protests around the globe.

Earlier this year Stokes quit the Houston-based Scrap Yard Dawgs club along with her team mates following a now deleted tweet from the team’s general manager Connie May about the national anthem.

Pierce and Lloyd talk about their own experiences of racism with Ade Adedoyin and discuss what needs to change, and whether sport and politics should be discussed at the Olympics in 2021.

Photo: Atlanta Hawks Head coach Lloyd Pierce on the sidelines during their game against the Boston Celtics in February 2020.
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