Willie Weinbaum

Jul 26, 2024 | espn.co.uk | Mark Fainaru-Wada |Steve Fainaru |Willie Weinbaum

KIGALI, Rwanda -- In the summer of 2018, inside a national arena that felt more like a small-college gym, the NBA commissioner shot free throws with the president of Rwanda. It was a meeting of disparate men with complementary motives. Adam Silver, a lawyer and NBA lifer who grew up in a wealthy New York suburb before presiding over one of the most progressive leagues in sports, was in Rwanda to build on a mission to extend the NBA's reach to every corner of the world.

Jul 26, 2024 | espn.in | Mark Fainaru-Wada |Steve Fainaru |Willie Weinbaum

KIGALI, Rwanda -- In the summer of 2018, inside a national arena that felt more like a small-college gym, the NBA commissioner shot free throws with the president of Rwanda. It was a meeting of disparate men with complementary motives. Adam Silver, a lawyer and NBA lifer who grew up in a wealthy New York suburb before presiding over one of the most progressive leagues in sports, was in Rwanda to build on a mission to extend the NBA's reach to every corner of the world.

Jun 16, 2024 | andscape.com | William Weinbaum |Willie Weinbaum

When Hall of Fame baseball player Jackie Robinson was born in 1919, Father’s Day was not a nationwide event and had only been in existence for nine years. He never got to celebrate one with his father. Jerry Robinson abandoned his family in 1920, leaving Mallie McGriff Robinson to raise Jackie and his four older siblings on her own. It wasn’t until the spring of 1972, the year Robinson died, that the U.S. made Father’s Day an official holiday, 58 years after Mother’s Day became one.

Mar 7, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Mark Fainaru-Wada |Willie Weinbaum

KAYONZA DISTRICT, Rwanda -- In the eastern corner of one of the world's poorest countries, where electricity and running water are luxuries, where the costs of exercise and health care are out of reach, where men are traditionally deemed earners and women are delegated as caretakers, there are, remarkably, a handful of basketball courts where that all falls away. At least for a moment.