Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was a gifted basketball player whose decision to protest racial injustice by refusing to stand for the national anthem was met with swift retribution and a shortening of his ...

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf might have gone down as a footnote in NBA history had Colin Kaepernick and other modern athlete-activists not resurrected his relevance. Two decades before Kaepernick, Abdul-Rauf’s ...

Former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf sits down with TODAY’s Craig Melvin to open up about his controversial career in the NBA being cut short for refusing to stand up for the national anthem in 1996 in ...

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf has been speaking for years about his NBA career, his controversial stance against the national anthem in the 1990s, mental health and more. Those speaking engagements were ...

Two decades before Colin Kaepernick took a knee there was the story of former NBA star Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. He had the skills and ability of Stephen Curry and was at the top of his game in the 1990s.

In the latest edition of the Nuggets Ink podcast, beat writer Mike Singer chats with former Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf following the release of his Showtime documentary “Stand.” Among the topics ...

When it comes to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf's legacy, the general discussions usually revolve around his six years with the Denver Nuggets, where he won the Most Improved Player of the Year award, attained ...

A professional athlete protests injustice by sitting out the National Anthem. There’s a firestorm, and before long, his career is over. While there is a connection, this is not a story about former ...

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf was a gifted basketball player whose decision to protest racial injustice by refusing to stand for the national anthem was met with swift retribution and a shortening of his ...