Celebrating key Black players, coaches and referees who helped propel the sport of basketball and the NBA ... becoming the first African-American to sign an NBA contract and catch on with a ...

As David A. Goldstein details in his recent book “Alley-Oop to Aliyah: African-American Hoopsters in the Holy Land,” Watson is far from the only black basketball player to do these things.

former Illinois State head coach Jill Hutchison and legendary African American basketball player Ora Washington. Jennifer Azzi was an All-American guard at Stanford. In 1990 she was awarded the ...