Black players also leveraged the existence of the NBA’s competing league, the American Basketball Association (ABA, 1967‒1976), and turned to legal strategies and union organizing to push for ...

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 ...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are Cineflix are developing a docuseries about pioneering Black NBA basketball players including Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd and Nat Clifton. 2025 American Music Awards.

Her new book, Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA, is an exploration of how Black basketball players changed the sport in the 1970s.

Claiborne was the first Black basketball player at Duke. Credit: Art is Cool & Ideal 48 “I didn’t think of myself as just a basketball player.