Hank DeZonie: The NBA's Overlooked Barrier-Breaker
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It’s hard to gauge current public knowledge of basketball’s racial politics in the 1940s and early 1950s. If only Quinnipiac did a poll. Alas. What we do know is that the NBA enjoys a unique position in telling basketball’s history. And it does a relatively poor job on its own history as well as the story of how it came to exist.
Hank DeZonie: The NBA's Overlooked Barrier-Breaker
Hank DeZonie: The NBA's Overlooked…
Hank DeZonie: The NBA's Overlooked Barrier-Breaker
It’s hard to gauge current public knowledge of basketball’s racial politics in the 1940s and early 1950s. If only Quinnipiac did a poll. Alas. What we do know is that the NBA enjoys a unique position in telling basketball’s history. And it does a relatively poor job on its own history as well as the story of how it came to exist.