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02-27-2015, 07:28 PM
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Earl Lloyd, first African-American in NBA, dies at age 86
This interesting read is from the Sports Section of today's Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports...ca6_story.html
I confess that I could not have told you who broke the color barrier in the NBA. But, I do vaguely remember watching Earl Lloyd play on TV when I was a teen in the late 1950's. I was even more amazed to learn that Lloyd was a native of Alexandria, VA, same as me, and lived there thru high school. I've lived in Alexandria or nearby all of my life, but I never heard about him (Lloyd was some years before my time). Val 
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