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All legitimate claimants for what ?
A
B
C
Quoting Appu ,
“The three players with legitimate claims to be the first African American basketball player in the NBA. Each satisfied a different condition of being “first”:
Chuck Cooper ( B ) was the first black player to be drafted by an NBA team, in 1950.
Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton ( A ) was the first black player to sign a contract with an NBA team.
Earl Lloyd ( C ) was the first black player to actually play in an NBA game”
Cracked by Rithwik , Rajith Ravi , Anon , Hrishikesh Varma , Appu , Prasanth , Abhijeet , Frank Anthony and Deepak Dahiya .
A – Nathaniel Clifton
B – Chuck Cooper
C – Earl Lloyd
Connect : African Americans to sign a contract to play in the National Basketball Association.
A – Nathaniel Clifton
B- Chuck Cooper
C- Earl Lloyd
the first African American players in the NBA.
First African Americans in NBA
Various claimants to being first African American to feature in the NBA
The three players with legitimate claims to be the first African American basketball player in the NBA. Each satisfied a different condition of being “first”:
Chuck Cooper was the first black player to be drafted by an NBA team, in 1950.
Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton was the first black player to sign a contract with an NBA team.
Earl Lloyd was the first black player to actually play in an NBA game.
Cogged from Wiki.
A- Nat Clifton
B- Chuck Cooper
C- Earl Lloyd
All three are among the first African American players to sign contracts with the NBA.
As Wikipedia clarifies,
* Cooper was the first black player to be drafted by an NBA team, in 1950.
* However, Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton was the first black player to sign a contract with an NBA team.
* Earl Lloyd was the first black player to actually play in an NBA game; his team started its 1950–51 season one day before Cooper’s and four days before Clifton’s.
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