Chuck Cooper is selected by the Boston Celtics in the second round of the National Basketball Association draft.

Cooper becomes the first African-American player drafted by a team in the National Basketball Association. Chose a few weeks after Celtics owner Walter Brown hired Red Auerbach as coach on April 7, 1950, he plays his first game for the team on November 1, 1950, a day after Earl Lloyd of the Washington Capitols breaks the NBA color barrier..