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Oscar Robertson

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Oscar Robertson

Black Champions: Interview with Oscar Robertson

On coaches' unequal treatment of African American college basketball players.

by Clayton Riley via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on December 13, 1984

Chicago Bulls guard Norm Van Lier drives past Milwaukee Bucks center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar during Game 2 of the NBA Playoffs at the United Center in Chicago on April 19, 1974.

How Black Basketball Players in the ‘70s Paved the Way for the All Stars Today

The impact of Black ball players' fight for higher compensation and labor protections in the ‘70s is felt today.

by Theresa Runstedtler via TIME on March 16, 2023

Locker-Room Liberty

Athletes who helped shape our times and the economic freedom that enabled them.

by Matt Welch via Reason on May 1, 2005

Bernard King of the New Jersey Nets driving past Elvin Hayes of the Washington Bullets, in March of 1978.

The Racial Politics of the N.B.A. Have Always Been Ugly

A new book argues that the real history of the league is one of strife between Black labor and white ownership.

by Jay Caspian Kang via The New Yorker on March 21, 2023

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