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 to ...

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 ...

The NBA celebrated and acknowledged the 75th anniversary of the first three Black players to take the court for the league ...

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.

Chuck Cooper, Nat Sweetwater Clifton and Earl Lloyd New Yorks Karl-Anthony Towns tells the story of Nat Clifton, the first Black player to be signed to an NBA contract Golden States Steph Curry ...

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

Mandatory Credit: Malcolm Emmons-USA TODAY Sports It was on this date in 1950 that Celtics wing luminary Chuck Cooper became the first African American drafted into the NBA, taken out of Duquesne ...

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 ...