Sweetwater

On November 1st 1950, Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton walked onto an NBA court. Up until that moment, the ex-Harlem Globetrotter star turned New York Knick created a chain of events that would rock the sports world, defy political barriers, change the course of professional basketball as we know it and forever live in infamy as a forgotten and possibly sequestered moment in American history.

On November 1st 1950, Nat Sweetwater Clifton walked onto an NBA court. Up until that moment, the ex-Harlem Globetrotter star turned New York Knick created a chain of events that would rock the sports world, defy political barriers, change the course of professional basketball as we know it and forever live in infamy as a forgotten and possibly sequestered moment in American history.

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