How athletes protesting the national anthem has evolved over 17 years

The Associated Press report described a Vietnam war veteran stepping onto the basketball court during a Division III women’s college game and thrusting an American flag toward the 21-year-old forward who’d turned away from it during the national anthem that night, as she had before every game that season.
“She disgraced herself and she disgraced the flag,” Jerry Kiley, 56, was quoted as saying then.
Seventeen years later, the Lakers, Clippers and a vast majority of their