Jay-Z’s Link To Brooklyn’s Century-Old Black Basketball History

On September 29, 2011, in Business, Community, Culture, History, NBA, by Claude Johnson

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.

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Kareem Outed

On August 5, 2011, in Goodwill, Legal, Media, NBA, by Claude Johnson

Will basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar be a true giant, or, like in the movie Airplane!, do we have him “confused with someone else”?

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Lockout Blues, and Ancient Hoops Wisdom

On July 5, 2011, in Business, History, NBA, by Claude Johnson

Here is what some of basketball’s founding fathers would say about the current N.B.A. lockout.

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New York Rens Won First World Pro Basketball Tournament On Today’s Date

On March 28, 2011, in Community, Culture, History, NBA, Race, by Claude Johnson

This is a reminder that today is the anniversary of the date in 1939 when the all-black New York Renaissance (a.k.a. Harlem Rens) won the inaugural World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago.

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