<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">From a distance of more than half a century, Earl Lloyd usually tries to downplay his historic role as the first black man in the NBA -- a league in which more than 75 percent of today's players are black. No such luck. Pioneers are always important, even if they become such merely through a quirk in the schedule. On the night in 1950 when Lloyd stepped onto a court in upstate New York to play for the old Washington Capitols against the Rochester Royals, he was setting his name alongside those of others who surmounted important athletic barriers in mid-century America.</div> Source
i read about it in slam like, 2 or 3 years ago. i still hav the issue and the picture of him in those old chuck taylors
