CLEVELAND, Ohio – This week is big for two drafts. All eyes are on the NFL Draft, which takes place in Green Bay with a lot of hoopla leading to televised rounds over three days beginning Thursday, ...

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 ...

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Back in the 1950s, the NBA was at its lowest point. Not only was it almost irrelevant compared to other national sports like baseball, football and hockey, but far from what it is now in terms of ...

One hundred and seven NBA championship rings. More than 400 hundred NBA All-Star Game selections. Nearly one million points scored. So boasts the collective resume of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA ...

Earl Lloyd, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton and Chuck Cooper integrated the NBA 75 years ago. Illustration: Kelsea Petersen / The Athletic; Sporting News Archive / Getty, NBA Photos / Getty Kevin Lloyd ...

A career in the NBA seemed such an uncertainty as the 1950s arrived that Bob Cousy considered driving school a better option than playing for a team he didn’t even know how to find on a map.

ATLANTA (AP) — Paul Walther, who played six seasons in the NBA in the 1950s after a stellar college career at Tennessee, has died. He was 87. Son Brian Walther said Tuesday his father died Sunday in ...

Rudy Gobert was named the Defensive Player of the Year for the fourth time in his career, joining only Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace for the most all-time. Gobert spearheaded the Minnesota ...