"All I want is to be treated with respect and have my professionalism be honored. People who are out to get you either to destroy you, on the one extreme, or simply to humiliate and insult you or disrespect you."
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Michele A. Roberts
Michelle A. Roberts (born 1956) is an American attorney and former executive director of the National Basketball Players Association. She was the first woman to hold that position and the first woman to head a major professional sports union in North America.
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