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Watch: Ed Makes It Easy
Date: 1950s
Watch as Ed Macauley provided an assist for Chuck Cooper to make an easy shot against the Minneapolis Lakers. Cooper was the first Black player drafted in NBA history and Macauley later relayed the thoughts of the Celtics players at the time: “No one ever said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this black guy coming to the team, now what do we do?’ In fact, no one said much of anything at all. He was just another rookie trying to make the team.”
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