Chuck Cooper, Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton and Earl Lloyd, the league’s first Black players, will be celebrated in 2025-26. Official release The NBA plans to pay tribute to (from left) Chuck Cooper, ...
Earl Lloyd played for nine seasons in the NBA and won a championship with the Syracuse Nationals in 1955. First black man to ever play in the NBA, Earl Lloyd passed away on Thursday the age of 86 in ...
The Duquesne alum was the first Black player drafted into the NBA in the history of the then still-young league, picked up by ...
Earl Lloyd, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton and Chuck Cooper integrated the NBA 75 years ago. Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Sporting News Archive / Getty, NBA Photos / Getty Kevin Lloyd ...
The scholarship acknowledges the league's first Black players, Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd, and Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball ...
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Today in Boston Celtics history: Boston fields NBA's first all-Black starting five
Today in Boston Celtics history, the team made history by going with the first all-Black starting five in NBA history in 1964.
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