Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd and Nat Clifton transformed the NBA in 1950 as the league's first Black players. Steve Aschburner Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd and Nat Clifton were the first 3 Black players ...

The NBA has recently celebrated and acknowledged the 75th anniversary of the first three Black players to take the court for the league. According to Andscape, during the 1950-51 basketball season, ...

Chuck Cooper, number 11, plays for the Boston Celtics as they take on the Syracuse Nationals at the Garden in an undated photo. Basketball was a very different game in 1950. The NBA was a fledgling ...

On the 75th anniversary of the 1950 NBA Draft, which integrated the NBA, Isiah Thomas and Jalen Rose discuss the impact of those early pioneers.

"He's a chameleon," radio voice of the Dallas Mavericks, Chuck Cooperstein said as he described how Cooper Flagg would fit in ...