In 1950, Earl Lloyd broke the color barrier to become the first African-American to play in the National Basketball Association followed by a distinguished career. Lloyd endured intense discrimination before helping the Syracuse Nationals win the NBA Championship in 1955 and was later inducted into the Naismith Hall-of-Fame in 2003. Entering the league six years before Bill Russell, Earl Lloyd was often described as the "Jackie Robinson of basketball" and passed away in 2015 at the age of 86.
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