Today is the anniversary of the first black players to play in the N.B.A. From the Chester (Pa.) Times, on October 20, 1950: Several Negro basketball stars will be members of the teams in the National Basketball Association for the first time this winter. Nat (Sweetwater) Clifton of the Harlem Globetrotters, and Chuck Cooper, Duquesne [...]
Western Pennsylvania Politics People here are honest, hard working, no-nonsense folks. In order of priority they love the Steelers and football first, then everything else. Money and labor issues are big. Racial issues matter, but they aren’t as important as others make them (see below). And that was clear to me even before this New [...]
Adrian Dantley finally got elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. He’ll be enshrined on Friday in a ceremony in Springfield, Massachusetts, along with several other players, coaches, and contributors including Hakeem Olajuwon, Patrick Ewing, and Pat Riley. Among other things, I like Dantley’s unselfishness and perspective when it comes to recognizing his [...]
Here are some September birthdays. John Isaacs.
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