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The “Black Lives Matter” decals are gone from the court. There are no social justice messages on the backs of jerseys and no one is kneeling during the playing of the national anthem. Today, the NBA’s activism is conducted in part out of a home office inside a brick, two-story home in Washington, D.C. Built in 1925, the front porch has four columns and a chandelier hanging from the ceiling, all of it underneath an open-air, second-story balcony. The home covers 4,200 square feet and is worth more than $1.4 million. There are four beds and four baths. Inside the office, James Cadogan, 40, has a framed photo of him and former President Barack Obama, for whom he first worked as a campaign aide in 2008, and another photo of him with then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch, whom he served as senior counsel when she headed the U.S. Department of Justice. Also on the wall is Cadogan’s Michael Jordan shooting shirt from 1992.

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