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Chuck Cooper (basketball)
Charles Henry "Chuck" Cooper (September 29, 1926 – February 5, 1984) was an American professional basketball player. He and two others, Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton and Earl Lloyd, became the first African American player in the NBA in 1950. Cooper was also the first African-American to be drafted by an NBA team, as the second pick of the second round by the Boston Celtics.〔
==Life, death, and education==
Cooper was born and died in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Daniel and Emma Cooper,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/chuck-cooper-one-nbas-first-black-players )〕 Daniel was a mailman, and Emma was a schoolteacher.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2339/Cooper-Charles-Chuck.html )〕 He attended Pittsburgh's Westinghouse High School and graduated in 1944〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/07/obituaries/chuck-cooper-nba-player.html )〕
. For his senior year, he averaged more than 13 points per game, and was an All-City first team center.〔 He then attended and played a semester basketball for West Virginia State College (now University) before being drafted to serve in the United States Navy in the final stages of World War II.〔 Following his service, he enrolled at Duquesne University where he was an All-American, starting all four years, and setting the school-record for total points with 990 in four seasons.〔 During his time Duquesne University had a 78-19 record, and was invited to the then prestigious National Invitation Tournament twice. He was a captain for the 1949-50 team, which was the first team from that university to be nationally ranked all season, finishing with a 23-6 record and ranked 6th nationally. He was the first African-American to participate in a college basketball game south of the Mason–Dixon line.〔 On April 25, 1950, he became the first African-American drafted into the NBA when the Boston Celtics chose him with the 14th overall pick.〔http://www.basketball-reference.com/draft/NBA_1950.html〕 After his NBA career, Cooper graduated with a Masters in Social Work from the University of Minnesota. He worked to improve his hometown of Pittsburgh, serving on the Pittsburgh school board, and was appointed the director of parks and recreation for the city, becoming the first black department head. He also helped the Pittsburgh’s National Bank’s affirmative action program as an urban affairs officer〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/07/obituaries/chuck-cooper-nba-player.html )〕 until he died 〔 at the age of 57 on February 5, 1984 of liver cancer at Forbes Hospice.〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W-gNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p20DAAAAIBAJ&pg=1406%2C1120355〕 He was married twice, first in 1951, and then in 1957 to Irva Lee, who bore him 4 children.〔
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