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Tacko Fall Rumors
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Position: C
Born: 12/10/95
Height: 7-5 / 2.26
Weight:311 lbs. / 141.1 kg.
Salary: $449,115
Born: 12/10/95
Height: 7-5 / 2.26
Weight:311 lbs. / 141.1 kg.
Salary: $449,115
The Wizards were flowing with confidence during their Valentine’s Day victory over the Boston Celtics, putting on one of their best performances of the season. No play epitomized that confidence more than Deni Avdija’s brazen attempt to put the Celtics 7-foot-5 center Tacko Fall on a poster in the fourth quarter of the win.
It didn’t quite come off, but the rookie Avdija, who had 8 points and 10 rebounds in the game, knew he was going to get a question about it from NBC Sports Washington’s Wes Hall in his postgame interview. “Damn, I mean what can I do?” he said. “The basketball gods didn’t let me have it. I wanted it so bad.”
Brian Robb: Rob Williams and Tacko Fall will be back available for the Celtics on Wednesday night against Sixers. C’s will have 14 players available for first time in two weeks.
Chris Grenham: Tacko Fall is out tonight with an eye irritation, per the Celtics.
Celtics players speak out against facial recognition technology through Boston Globe
Boston Celtics players: We were disappointed to see that Governor Charlie Baker, in his amendments to the police reform legislation, removed the bill’s proposed regulations of government use of facial recognition technology. Since the tragic and outrageous police killing of George Floyd in May, Boston Celtics players have doubled-down on our commitment to raising public awareness about policing and systemic racism, and advocating for sound changes to law enforcement that improve public safety and strengthen racial justice for everyone.
Boston Celtics players: The stakes could not be higher: Black people are three times more likely to be killed by police than white people in this country. A recent study found that one in 1,000 Black men in the United States will be killed by police. And beyond the killing of civilians, police continue to be a permanent and oppressive fixture in communities of color, resulting in daily harassment and targeting of Black and brown people through unnecessary and disproportionate stops and searches, citations, and arrests.
