Earl Lloyd (NBA's first black player) passes away the age of 86. RIP.
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why don't people like this ever get talked about ?
literally never heard of him
literally never heard of him
RIP. NBA should definitely do a tribute
blackestofpanthers
God forgives, you are forgiven.
He legit is unheralded. I'm 100% sure that 99.9% of people have no idea who he is. Rip
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
it's weird....unlike baseball which embraces and builds itself up off of its past, the NBA acts as if the game didn't exist before the Celtics of the 60s
Dragonfly Jones
Siiiiiiiilence Punk!!
not to many ppl can say they knocked down doors and changed the game but this guy literally did that
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iceberg_is_on_fire
Wearing Lions gear when it wasn't cool
First black player to appear in an NBA game, Earl Lloyd, dead at 86
By Steven J. Gaither Perform Media
The man who helped pave the way for almost every star African-American player from Wilt Chamberlain to LeBron James has passed away.
Earl Lloyd, the first African-American to play in the NBA, died on Thursday according to Tom Leyden of WXYZ-Detroit.
Lloyd became the first black player to play in an NBA game when he suited up with the Washington Capitols on October 31, 1950. It was a difficult and cruel road ahead for other African-American players like Charles Cooper and Nat Clifton, who would join Lloyd the 1950-51 season.
“(Fans) would say stuff like, ‘Go back to Africa,'” Lloyd told NBA.com before his death. “And I’m telling you, you would often hear the N-word. That was commonplace. There were a lot of people who sat close to you who gave you the blues, man.”
But the former West Virginia State star persevered and went on to win a championship in 1955 with the Syracuse Nationals. He would finish up his decade-long playing career with the Detroit Pistons. At the time of his retirement Lloyd ranked 43rd in career scoring with 4,682 points.
He later became one of the NBA’s first African-American coaches, coaching the Pistons from 1971 through 1972. He was selected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor in 2003.
Link: http://www.sportingnews.com/nba/sto...o-appear-in-an-nba-game-earl-lloyd-dead-at-86
RIP to him, had to give this 5 stars.
brick james
John piffington
dude was the first player to ever play an NBA game, but there was another guy that got drafted before him. Chuck cooper, who was taken in the 1st round I think played his first game 1 day after Earl Lloyd.
RIP to them both
RIP to them both
RIP
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RIP.
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never heard of him in my life and i been an nba stan for damn near 3 decades
well the nba always involves it's legends with the league ..but i think you're right you don't hear much about anything pre-russell other than the occasional mikan reference