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Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton Biography
1922(?)-1990
Professional basketball player
One of the first three African-American players in the National Basketball Association (NBA), Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton was actually the first under official contract to play in the league.
He was a "first" in another way as well: he might be considered the NBA's first black star. While Chuck Cooper and Earl Lloyd, Clifton's African-American contemporaries who integrated the NBA in the year 1950, were low-key, low-profile players, Clifton was a popular figure and a born entertainer who delighted fans with his feats on the court.
Some said that had he come of age in the era of multimillion-dollar endorsement deals, he would have scored big with his public-friendly personality and become a rich man.
A player who spent some years in all-black leagues before coming to the NBA, Clifton avoided divulging his age.
He is reported to have been born in England, Arkansas, on October 13, 1922. Clifton's