Chuck Cooper Basketball - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family

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Sep 29, 1926 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 05 Feb 1984 (aged 57)

African American professional basketball player

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About Chuck Cooper Basketball

  • Charles Henry Cooper (September 29, 1926 – February 5, 1984) was an American professional basketball player.
  • He and two others, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton and Earl Lloyd, became the first African-American players in the NBA in 1950.
  • Cooper was also the first African American to be drafted by a National Basketball Association (NBA) team, as the first pick of the second round by the Boston Celtics.
  • He was elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 9, 2019.

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