Thursday, June 25, 2026

Black Basketball History Month!... Hoopster Of The Week!...Wayne Embry!

  

The 'Hoopster Of The Week'

for this week 

goes to: 

the Big Black Man, 6-8, 240 pound center who

rose to become the first Big Black General 

Manager in the NBA with the Bucks in 1972 

after an eleven-year playing career, and 

he was a 5x All-Star Gamer, plus he 

won a NBA Championship and Ring with 

Boston in 1968 as a player and repeated 

that as an executive in 2019, plus twice he 

was voted NBA Executive of the Year in 

1992 and 1998, and in 1999 he was 

inducted into the Naismith HOF, and his 

nickname was 'The Wall' because he did the 

impenetrable pick and roll a lot with teammate 

Oscar Robertson, 

and so much more...




1968
2019



...Wayne Embry!






Black Basketball History Month, 

celebrated in October each year,  was

founded by Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.

in 2025 to acknowledge, praise,

and hold high, with cheer, the untold 

numbers of International Black Men 

and Women, both past and present, 

that made us go, "Wow!...Whoa!...

...and...OMGosh!" in their nonstop, 

valiant, and always surprising, 

individual and team 

efforts to put the ball through the 

hoop the most, to win games and 

championships!



The Founder of Black Basketball History Month,

Ralph C.Winge, D.D.S.,

is also a Basketball enthusiast,

and USC Dental School Graduate.




If you know a Basketball Practitioner who should be included here,

please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!



For all Photos and Gifs seen here, no copyright infringement is intended.






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Thursday, June 18, 2026

Black Basketball History Month!... Hoopster Of The Week!...Violet Palmer!

  

The 'Hoopster Of The Week'

for this week 

goes to: 

the Big Black Lady who is the first female 

and Big Beautiful Woman to officiate as a 

referee a NBA Playoff game in 2006, and the 

first to do so for an All-Star game, and since 

then, she has officiated hundreds of NBA 

(919) and WNBA games, while also being a 

2x NCAA Division II Championship team 

member at Cal Poly Pomona (in 1985 and 

1986), and she established the Violet Palmer 

Officiating camp to teach youth on the art 

of officiating, plus you know that 

she's in the WNBA HOF, 

and so much more...




...Violet Palmer! 












Black Basketball History Month, 

celebrated in October every year, was

founded by Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.

in 2025 to acknowledge, praise,

and hold high, with cheer, the untold 

numbers of International Black Men 

and Women, both past and present, 

that made us go, "Wow!...Whoa!...

...and...OMGosh!" in their nonstop, 

valiant, and always surprising, 

individual and team 

efforts to put the ball through the 

hoop the most, to win games and 

championships!




The Founder of Black Basketball History Month,

Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.,

is also a Basketball enthusiast,

and USC Dental School Graduate.




If you know a Basketball Practitioner who should be included here,

please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!



For all Photos and Gifs seen here, no copyright infringement is intended.










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Thursday, June 11, 2026

Black Basketball History Month!... Hoopster Of The Week!...Simon Gourdine!

  

The 'Hoopster Of The Week'

for this week 

goes to: 

the Big Black Man who became the first Big 

Black deputy commissioner of the NBA in 

1974, after being the Assistant to the 

commissioner from 1970-72,  and was 

involved in shaping the 1976 collective 

bargaining agreement that established free 

agency for the player's benefit, and played 

a role in the merger of the ABA and NBA, 

plus he was the Executive Director of the 

National Basketball Player Association in 

1995 to 1996, and he was a Captain in the 

U. S. Army, and as a lawyer who graduated 

from Fordham University in 1965, he worked 

in many leadership roles in the government, 

and so much more...



...Simon Gourdine!








Black Basketball History Month, 

celebrated in October each year,  was

founded by Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.

in 2025 to acknowledge, praise,

and hold high, with cheer, the untold 

numbers of International Black Men 

and Women, both past and present, 

that made us go, "Wow!...Whoa!...

...and...OMGosh!" in their nonstop, 

valiant, and always surprising, 

individual and team 

efforts to put the ball through the 

hoop the most, to win games and 

championships!



The Founder of Black Basketball History Month,

Ralph C.Winge, D.D.S.,

is also a Basketball enthusiast,

and USC Dental School Graduate.




If you know a Basketball Practitioner who should be included here,

please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!



For all Photos and Gifs seen here, no copyright infringement is intended.



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Friday, June 5, 2026

Black Basketball History Month!... Hoopster Of The Week!...Luguentz Dort!

  

The 'Hoopster Of The Week'

for this week 

goes to: 

the Big Black Man, 6-4, 220, known as 'The 

Dorture Chamber,' who started out as a 

Pac-12 Freshman of the Year in 2019, then 

joined the NBA and won a Championship 

this year, 2025 while also being, at the same 

time, on the All-Defensive First team, 

and so much more...









...Luguentz Dort!




Mr. Dort has a 

prominent vertical mid-upper lip




Black Basketball History Month, 

celebrated in October each year,  was

founded by Ralph C. Winge, D.D.S.

in 2025 to acknowledge, praise,

and hold high, with cheer, the untold 

numbers of International Black Men 

and Women, both past and present, 

that made us go, "Wow!...Whoa!...

...and...OMGosh!" in their nonstop, 

valiant, and always surprising, 

individual and team 

efforts to put the ball through the 

hoop the most, to win games and 

championships!



The Founder of Black Basketball History Month,

Ralph C.Winge, D.D.S.,

is also a Basketball enthusiast,

and USC Dental School Graduate.




If you know a Basketball Practitioner who should be included here,

please leave a note in the comment section. Thank you!



For all Photos and Gifs seen here, no copyright infringement is intended.



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