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Basketball was created as a YMCA sport.
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The picture above in crawfordville high school when they won the championship in 1902.
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Social Tuner team played variety of teams in 1903.
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first all-black fully professional African-American owned basketball team
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The first international player in the league.
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He was the first black person to play in the National Basketball Association, in the 1950–51 NBA season
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Clifton was the first black player to sign an NBA contract.
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Third black person in the N.B.A
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In 1985, Lynette Woodard became the first woman to play for the Globetrotters
