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Earl LloydApril 28Earl Lloyd*On this date we celebrate the birth of Earl Lloyd in 1928. He was an African American basketball player, the first Black man to play in a National Basketball Association (NBA) game.
Chuck Cooper, drafted in 1950
Bob Yancy and Ben Franklin of Boston University (1937) The first Black selected for All-American basketball honors was Don Barksdale of UCLA (1947) The first Black signed by a National Basketball Assn. team was Charles (Chuck) Cooper, who joined the New York Knicks (1950)
Oscar Robertson
Charlie Scott.