On a Tuesday afternoon in 1950, April 25, in a board room jammed with owners and coaches of the fledgling league’s 12 (soon to be 11) teams, the Boston Celtics’ Walter Brown called out a name in the ...

The NBA has recently celebrated and acknowledged the 75th anniversary of the first three Black players to take the ... during Black History Month. "I am excited about the fact that we are going ...

MVP finalists Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic lead All-NBA first team, while LeBron James becomes the first ...

And before that year, the NBA had never had a Black player. That all changed when the Celtics selected Chuck Cooper, an All-American out of Pittsburgh’s Duquesne, in the second round of that year’s ...

Every player received a special black T-shirt hanging in his locker ... Curry, who became the 26th player in NBA history to score 25,000 points during last Saturday’s home win over Detroit ...

LOS ANGELES — LeBron James became the first player in NBA history to score 50,000 combined points in the regular season and postseason Tuesday night. James surpassed the mark with a 3-pointer ...