EXPERIENCE. I WOULD SAY IT WAS MORE OF A SENSE OF PRIDE AND ULTIMATE JOY, AND I REALLY KIND OF WANT TO LOOK UP AND SAY, DAD, I KNOW YOU FEEL IT. AND I JUST HOPE YOU FEEL IT AND FEEL HOW MUCH YOU ...

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the team sold the contract of small forward Chuck Cooper to the (then) Milwaukee (now, Atlanta) Hawks in 1953. Cooper, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had ...

Today in Boston Celtics history, Chuck Cooper was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1926. Cooper played his NCAA basketball at West Virginia State and then after, Duquesne, his time at the former ...

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 ...

Debut Games. On October 31, 1950, Earl Lloyd stepped onto the court and into history as the first Black player to play in an NBA game, becoming a Pioneer in the NBA.

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, ...

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 ...