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Carmelo Anthony - professional basketball player, (African-American mother) [22] [23] Greg Anthony - retired professional basketball player; Cole Anthony - basketball player (African American father) Nate Archibald - former professional basketball player; Jim Ard - former professional basketball player; Gilbert Arenas - retired professional ...
Most influential Black basketball players. ... In the early 1970s, as the numbers and capital of African American players grew, Abdul-Jabbar, along with many NBA Black players, grew fed up with ...
Earl Francis Lloyd (April 3, 1928 – February 26, 2015) was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was the first African American player to play a game in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Barksdale would later be the first African-American to win an Olympic basketball gold medal (1948), a Pan-American basketball gold medal (1951), and would be the third African-American to sign an NBA contract after Chuck Cooper joined Boston and Earl Lloyd signed with Washington. He was the first African-American to play in the NBA All-Star ...
Famous Black athletes span all sports, from football and basketball to tennis and gymnastics. This article focuses on 10 whose excellence made them household names and changed their sports forever.
Earl Lloyd (right) was the first African American to play in the NBA in 1950. The NBA was founded in June 1946, with its first season played in 1946–47. Wat Misaka debuted in 1947–48 as the first non-white player and the first Asian American to play in the league. [1] [4] African Americans first appeared in the NBA in 1950.
First African-American basketball player to win the NBA All Star MVP, the NBA Finals MVP, and the NBA MVP all in the same season: Willis Reed (New York Knicks) First African-American NCAA Division I basketball coach: Will Robinson (Illinois State University) [Note 2] First African American to initiate the concept of free agency.
Donald Argee Barksdale (March 31, 1923 – March 8, 1993) was an American professional basketball player. He was a pioneer as an African-American basketball player, becoming the first to be named NCAA All-American, the first to play on a United States men's Olympic basketball team, and the first to play in a National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game.