NBA Honors First Three Black Men to Break League’s Color Barrier on 75th Anniversary
They changed the game, literally! Seventy-five years ago, three trailblazing Black men—Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton, Chuck Cooper, and Earl Lloyd—changed the face of professional basketball forever. During the 1950-51 season, they made history as the first Black players to officially take the court in the National Basketball Association, paving the way for generations of athletes to […]