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The change comes amid the organization’s latest controversy: dozens of former employees describing a toxic workplace culture, which caused owner Dan Snyder to commission an investigation that was taken over by the NFL. After the investigation by attorney Beth Wilkinson’s firm, the league fined Washington $10 million and Snyder temporarily ceded day-to-day operations of the team to his wife, Tanya, while he focused on a new stadium agreement.

“Its 32 owners — none of whom are Black — profit substantially from the labor of NFL players, 70% of whom are Black. The owners watch the games from atop NFL stadiums in their luxury boxes, while their majority-Black workforce put their bodies on the line every Sunday, taking vicious hits and suffering debilitating injuries to their bodies and their brains while the NFL and its owners reap billions of dollars,” it added.

“You can’t just say, ‘Oh, I have to get extra post ups’ if it doesn’t really work within the flow of the game,” he said. “It could also be touches where I’m setting screens and rolling (or) I’m getting in the pocket and able to go to the basket. It doesn’t necessarily have to be straight-up post-ups. … But if I can play closer to the basket, especially in a game to kind of get everything going, it helps a lot.”