David Fizdale speaks out about Civil War statues, civil rights issues in Memphis
It would have been easy for Grizzlies coach David Fizdale to stay silent. But Fizdale didn’t stick to sports. He’s a basketball coach, in his first year in Memphis, a city with a tortured racial history, culminating in the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., at the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968. (The motel…