The National Basketball Wives Association (NBWA) held their annual conference this weekend in Los Angeles with this year’s theme of “Building A Living Legacy.” The conference kicked off with 30 members of the association meeting with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST), a Los Angeles based nonprofit, at one of its sites, located at the Los Angeles Regional Taskforce on Human Trafficking.

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“My heart and stomach are still clenching,” Mia Wright, president of the NBWA, told the Los Angeles Sentinel after leaving the taskforce site. She spoke to the dichotomy of the meeting between the wives and girlfriends of NBA players, and the survivors of human trafficking.

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“It is polar opposite,” said Wright, the wife of NBA Champion Dorell Wright. “We are in this cocoon of the NBA lifestyle, so being able to have that experience with women who are literally living a polar opposite journey than we are and being able to connect with them, just based on the fact that at the end of the day we are all women, means a lot.”