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First to Break NBA Color Barrier was Japanese American


November 30, 2009
by Matthew Rodriguez

Three years before African Americans were allowed into the league and the same year Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, Japanese American Watura Misaka was drafted in the first round by the New York Knicks. He later served in the US Army stationed in Hiroshima three months after the atomic bomb devastated that city.

I wonder if this fascinating and largely forgotten part of history made it into Bill Simmons' Book of Basketball.

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