"Stephen Black" is an Australian former professional basketball player who last played for the Cairns Taipans of the National Basketball League (Australia)/NBL. He is the son of Alan Black (basketball)/Alan Black. He is currently coaching the South West Metro Pirates in the Queensland Basketball League.

Born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia)/Victoria, he attended the Australian Institute of Sport between 1998-1999.

He made his debut for the Perth Wildcats in 1999 where he played for 5 years, then he moved to Brisbane in 2004 to play for the Brisbane Bullets to play for another 4 years. He moved to Cairns in 2008. He retired at the end of the 2009 NBL season having played 264 NBL games.

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It's been killing me watching from the side.

He would say an 80-year-old man from Alabama shouldn't tell someone what they can put on paper, ... Some of his decisions would be called liberal and some conservative. What I call him is a strict constructionist.

They didn't realize until 1954's Brown v. Board of Education ruling that he had changed.

He educated himself out of racism.

He was an absolutist on protection of the press' right to criticize government.

We've dissolved ourselves down to hearing what we want to believe, ... The press must be objective, fair and balanced so people can make their own educated decisions. Now, people tune in to networks that say what they want to hear and spend less time reading newspapers.

It certainly doesn't get any harder, ... I think Townsville in Townsville is probably the big game.

They're fantastic guys to play with. It's just great to really come together and grind out a tough one.

It certainly doesn't get any harder.