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 ...

EXPERIENCE. I WOULD SAY IT WAS MORE OF A SENSE OF PRIDE AND ULTIMATE JOY, AND I REALLY KIND OF WANT TO LOOK UP AND SAY, DAD, I KNOW YOU FEEL IT. AND I JUST HOPE YOU FEEL IT AND FEEL HOW MUCH YOU ...

The NBA held its inaugural Pioneers Classic on Sunday when the Boston Celtics took on the Milwaukee Bucks at TD Garden. The game was a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the debut seasons of Chuck ...

The Pioneers Classic coincides with the beginning of Black History Month and commemorates the 75th anniversary of the NBA's first Black players joining the league. In April 1950, Duquesne's Chuck ...

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 ...

In the 1950s and 1960s, the NBA and the Boston Celtics in particular were instrumental in integrating the league at the dawn of the US Civil Rights era. Most fans of the Celtics recall that it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1950, Chuck Cooper became the first African American player drafted into the NBA, a milestone that helped dismantle racial barriers in professional basketball. Alongside Nat Clifton and Earl Lloyd, ...