From Fearless Basketball

From Fearless Basketball Five years before Jackie Robinson broke baseball line of color ... Four years before Kenny Washington took the field for the Los Angeles Rams ... Sixteen years before Willie O'Ree skated on the ice for the Boston Bruins ... National Basketball League (NBL) and progress against segregation in professional sports. Instead of integrating an African American player in the game as it happened in baseball, hockey and football, 10 players hit the timber Africa in 1942 and made history. When the Second World War called the men in the trenches of American Sports suffered a loss. Like baseball players Joe DiMaggio, Yogi Berra, Warren Spahn and Ted Williams headed overseas. Two of the seven NBL teams folded before the 1942-43 season because of the call to military service. Therefore, Sid Goldberg, owner of the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets, made a decision. It 'went to the championship and said that they would be the replacement of local athletes at war with African American players. The United Auto Workers at the Studebaker factory decided against another team. Since the factory was used as a defense of the plant, workers have been exempted from service. Chicago Studebakers signed six players from Harlem Globetrotters (Duke of Cumberland, Beie Price, Sonnier Boswell, Roos Hudson, Tony Peyton and Hillary Brown) challenge Toledo. 1946 marks the 20th anniversary of the Globetrotters, and while the nbl was busy trying to compensate for the loss of players who have busy entertaining crowds all over the world. The Globetrotters played their game of 3000 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and presented in the pages of time in the month of December, the magazine Life 2, the transmission of that year. Other teams in nbl started to add to list African-Americans, including Cleveland, Tri-Cities and Rochester. Ultimately, the two teams that tested for the integration, Studebakers and Chevrolets, leaflets and so did the nbl. The League has been replaced by the National Basketball Association, and 1950 was a very good year. Red Auerbach drafted Charles "Chuck" Cooper Boston Celtics on his team, so that the first African American player to be drafted an NBA team. Harlem Globetrotter and former first baseman for the Chicago American Giants, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, followed by the first African American to sign with a team in the NBA when he joined the New York Knicks. But it was Earl Lloyd, the first African American to take the wood in its opening game with the Washington capital. Lloyd later became the first African American to serve as bench coach for the Detroit Pistons in 1971 season 12 games. In the next ten years, the NBA has seen the arrival of African American players like Bill Russell leading, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson and Elgin Baylor. Although Bill Russell dominated the defense of Boston Celtics dynasty Auerbach, Chamberlain was the leader of the attack of the Philadelphia 76ers. Chamberlain set a few records that were broken, and remains the only player who has scored 100 points in a game. Robertson led the Olympic team in 1960 and played in the NBA for 14 years with the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks. Meanwhile, Elgin Baylor was occupied by the Los Angeles Lakers NBA Finals eight times (but never won). Basketball resolved to incorporate more than one player to open the doors hardwood of players who have surprised the public for generations. Players such as Chamberlain, Julius Erving, Shaquille O 'Neal, Michael Jordan and has paved the way for today's superstars such as Kobe Bryant, Allen Iverson, LeBron James and Tim Duncan. Mitchell and Ness Nostalgia Co., which specializes in authentic Throwback mesh lines of players past Shaq, Magic Johnson and Larry Johnson among its top selling NBA Jerseys for fans looking to pay tribute to the heroes of the hardwood. Despite the fanfare does not come in a big race, as it did in other sports, basketball is a sport for all ages. Supporters continue to pay homage to some of the NBA in 2006 as the best NBA All-Star Game approaches, and spectators are preparing for what should be a spectacle.