On May 24, 1950, Nat \"Sweetwater\" Clifton made history by signing with the New York Knicks, becoming the first Black player ...

Carrying the weight of history, these first Black NBA players entered arenas where many didn’t want them and still played at a high level. In a time of segregation, they proved that their ...

The NBA has recently celebrated and acknowledged the 75th anniversary of the first three Black players to take the ... during Black History Month. "I am excited about the fact that we are going ...

MVP finalists Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic lead All-NBA first team, while LeBron James becomes the first ...

And before that year, the NBA had never had a Black player. That all changed when the Celtics selected Chuck Cooper, an All-American out of Pittsburgh’s Duquesne, in the second round of that year’s ...