Chuck Cooper was a Hall of Fame player for the Boston Celtics as much for what he was able to accomplish off the court as on the it with the team that became the first team to draft a Black man into ...

Chuck Cooper broke historic NBA barriers with the Boston Celtics. The Duquesne alum was the first Black player drafted into the NBA in the history of the then still-young league, picked up by the ...

Today in Boston Celtics history, In 1953, the team traded the contract of small forward Chuck Cooper to the Milwaukee Hawks ...

Today in Boston Celtics history, Chuck Cooper was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1926. Cooper played his NCAA basketball at West Virginia State and then after, Duquesne, his time at the former ...

As the first African-American players in the NBA, the roles that Cooper, Clifton and Lloyd served went far beyond the court. From NBA.com Staff NBA TV discusses Earl Lloyd's pioneering entrance to the ...

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, ...

Jaylen Brown tells the story of how Chuck Cooper dealt with racism at the time with the help of his coach and teammates.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the team sold the contract of small forward Chuck Cooper to the (then) Milwaukee (now, Atlanta) Hawks in 1953. Cooper, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had ...