On a Tuesday afternoon in 1950, April 25, in a board room jammed with owners and coaches of the fledgling league’s 12 (soon to be 11) teams, the Boston Celtics’ Walter Brown called out a name in the ...

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 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, 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 ...

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.

First Black man to officially land an NBA deal. Big time. Then came Chuck Cooper. The Celtics grabbed him with the 13th pick in the 1950 draft, making him the league’s first Black draftee.

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