Sentences with phrase «black professional basketball»
It also hosted Joe Lewis fights and was the home of a local all - black professional basketball team, he added.
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They play it much harder in the tall trade, says Halberstam, because, while we may think of our sports stars as heroes, «the new American athlete, particularly the modern American professional basketball player... was rarely confident about anything save his own sport... he was more often than not black, often came from pathetic economic and psychological circumstances, was a basketball player out of desperation....
Nik deserves praise for persevering in a traditionally black dominated sport through youth, high school, college and now professional basketball.
Certain pieces dealing with professional sports might have served as a Nike campaign if not for scattered, disturbingly altered details, like two black men dramatically posed in action playing basketball, the hoop replaced by a noose.