Price was not only the oldest living former Harlem Globetrotter but was also one of 10 black players who in 1941 broke the racial color barrier in pro basketball by signing with the Toledo Jim White Chevrolets of the National Basketball League.
Jay-Z’s co-ownership of the Brooklyn Nets reminds us of the Smart Set Athletic Club — America’s first all-black basketball team — whose players lived a short stroll away from the Marcy Housing Projects in Bedford-Stuyvesant where he grew up.
I want us to reconcile with Kareem, because instead of arguing we should be teaming up.
Will basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar be a true giant, or, like in the movie Airplane!, do we have him “confused with someone else”?
Fans of the Harlem Rens historic African American basketball team have asked if we had anything to do with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s recent for-profit film, “On The Shoulders of Giants.” We appreciate the movie, but the answer is simple. No. Here’s what we’re doing about it, and why.
Here is what some of basketball’s founding fathers would say about the current N.B.A. lockout.
If a community initiative passes final City Council approval, New York City will rename a Bronx street after former Harlem Rens star John Isaacs. It is a section of Hoe Avenue that runs alongside the Madison Square Boys & Girls Club where Isaacs worked as a youth counselor for nearly 50 years.
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