Chuck Cooper, Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton and Earl Lloyd, the league’s first Black players, will be celebrated in 2025-26. Official release The NBA plans to pay tribute to (from left) Chuck Cooper, ...

The scholarship acknowledges the league's first Black players, Chuck Cooper, Earl Lloyd, and Nathaniel “Sweetwater” Clifton The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Basketball ...

The 2025-26 NBA season will be a special one, with the league revealing its plan to honor three league pioneers throughout the campaign. In 1950, Cooper became the first Black player to be drafted in ...

LAS VEGAS — The top of his refrigerator is crowded with white plastic bottles, neatly aligned in rows, so snug that another couldn’t fit. The bottles are filled with pills and powders — an assortment ...

After playing then officiating in the NBA for more than 20 seasons, Workman kept his mind on hoops but turned his focus to ...