I've seen a bunch of people calling Bill Russell the Jackie Robinson of basketball so I think it is fair to remind people that Chuck Cooper in 1950 and Wat Misaka in 1947 were the first black and colored people respectively to play in the NBA
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LeBron blocks Derrick Rose's game tying shot
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