Chuck Cooper Hall of Fame Enshrinement

Cooper, Fitch, Westphal among Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2019

https://sports.yahoo.com/cooper-fitch-westphal-among-basketball-174719612.html

Cooper, Fitch, Westphal among Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 2019 originally appeared on nbcsportsboston.com

Three players and a coach with Celtics connections were elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame and will be enshrined in the Hall in Springfield, Mass. in September.

Chuck Cooper, the first African-American to be drafted in the the NBA when Red Auerbach selected him in 1950; Bill Fitch, who coached in the NBA for 25 seasons, including coaching the Celtics to Larry Bird's first NBA championship in 1981; Paul Westphal, a first-round Celtics draft pick who later starred for the Phoenix Suns and Seattle SuperSonics; and Carl Braun, who finished his career on the C's title winners in 1962; are part of the Hall's Class of 2019.

Also inducted were Al Attles, Vlade Divac, Bobby Jones, Sidney Moncrief, Jack Sikma, Teresa Weatherspoon, the Wayland Baptist Flying Queens and the 1957-59 Tennessee A&I team.

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Links to some more articles:

http://www.hoophall.com/index.php/events/enshrinement/class-of-2019

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/news/naismith-memorial-basketball-hall-fame-2019-class-jones-moncrief-sikma-webber-out/3ub6jkydf3ty1nzewtmy6pbn0

https://www.nba.com/article/2019/04/06/naismith-release-2019-hall-fame-class

https://pittsburghsportsnow.com/2019/04/05/duquesnes-chuck-cooper-to-enter-naismith-memorial-basketball-hall-of-fame/

https://www.post-gazette.com/sports/gene-collier/2019/09/01/Chuck-Cooper-Hall-of-Fame-Cooper-Foundation-NBA-Larry-Bird/stories/201909010089

dbrown4 wrote:Hard to believe it has taken this long but now it's finally happening.

https://theundefeated.com/videos/chuck-cooper-the-first-black-nba-draft-pick-is-going-to-the-hall-of-fame/?addata=espn:nba:index


db

While Chuck was the first to be drafted - Lloyd was the first to play in the nba - followed by chuck at # 2. Nat Clifton was 3rd. lloyd played in 560 games, while Clifton played 544 and Cooper played in only 88.

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