# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chuck-cooper-q942365
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:21.420Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chuck-cooper-q942365"
name: "Chuck Cooper"
slug: "chuck-cooper-q942365"
description: "Charles Henry Cooper was an American professional basketball player. Cooper played college basketball for the Duquesne Dukes and was named a consensus second-team All-American in 1950. According to the November 18, 1950 issue of the Afro-American newspaper, he was the first Black \"basketer\" [sic] to be named an All-American college athlete. Cooper was the first African-American to be drafted by a National Basketball Association (NBA) team; he was chosen by the Boston Celtics with the first pick of the second round of the 1950 NBA Draft. Cooper and two others—Nat \"Sweetwater\" Clifton and Earl Lloyd—became the first African-American players in the NBA, in 1950. In a six-season NBA career, Cooper played for the Celtics, the Milwaukee/St. Louis Hawks, and the Fort Wayne Pistons, averaging 6.7 points and 5.9 rebounds per game."
tagline: "American professional basketball player (1926–1984)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/99/Chuck_Cooper.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1926-09-29"
deathDate: "1984-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.07726133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "查克·库珀"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشاك كوبر (كرة سلة)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "تشاك كوبر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper"
    title: "Chuck Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper_(Basketballspieler)"
    title: "Chuck Cooper (Basketballspieler)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper_(basketball)"
    title: "Chuck Cooper (basketball)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper"
    title: "Chuck Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper"
    title: "Chuck Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6'%D7%90%D7%A7_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A8"
    title: "צ'אק קופר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper"
    title: "Chuck Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC"
    title: "チャック・クーパー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper"
    title: "Chuck Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper"
    title: "Chuck Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%A7%D0%B0%D0%BA"
    title: "Купер, Чак"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper_(ko%C5%A1arka%C5%A1)"
    title: "Chuck Cooper (košarkaš)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Cooper"
    title: "Chuck Cooper"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q942365"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump