Thursday, July 30, 2026

Black Basketball History Month!... Hoopster Of The Week!...Willis Reed!


The 'Hoopster Of The Week'

for this week 

goes to: 

the Big Black Man, 6-10, 240 pound center, 

who was the first Big Black to be voted a 

NBA Finals MVP, not once, but twice, in 

1970 and 1973, and in those two years he 

won the finals with the Knicks, and he is only 

one of two players who were drafted in the 

second round to win a finals Championship 

and MVP, plus he was a 7x All-Star Gamer, 

and was the MVP of one of those games 

(1970), and he started things out as the 

NBA Rookie of the Year in 1965, and he 

has a slew of other performance records, 

while serving seasons as an assistant coach 

and head coach in the NBA, plus he played 

football and set the state record in the discus 

in high school, plus as a senior there, he 

scored 58 points and won the state 

championship playing barefoot 

because his shoes were stolen,  and as a 

college freshman his team won the NAIA 

tournament, and he was selected 

to the all-tournament team,

and of course, the NBA had to enshrine 

the Grambling U. graduate into the HOF, 

and so much more...





...Willis Reed!







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, July 23, 2026

Black Basketball History Month!... Hoopster Of The Week!...Juju Watkins!

 

The 'Hoopster Of The Week'

for this week 

goes to: 

the Big Black Lady 6-2, 179, 5-star recruit who 

has won so many awards it will take an hour 

to mention them all, but she started out as the 

number 1 player in the nation as a senior in 

high school, the kept on a tear at USC, being 

the Freshman of the Year, while scoring a 

Freshman Scoring Record and breaking 

Lisa Leslie's record, plus she bested Cheryl 

Miller's most 30-point games record, and she 

won gold medals and MVP awards in FIBA 

International play, and the Times, the Daily 

News, and SportsKids of Sports Illustrated 

had her as the Player of the Year and a Ms. 

Basketball Gatorade Player of the Year, 

along with McDonalds and Nike, and her 

freshman and sophomore year play garnered 

her tons of shooting guard and scoring awards, 

and she is now rehabbing to ge back 

on track for her senior year on the court, 

and so much more...


2025 Naismith College Player of the Year


...Juju Watkins!







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, July 16, 2026

Black Basketball History Month!... Hoopster Of The Week!...Don Barksdale!


The 'Hoopster Of The Week'

for this week 

goes to: 

the Big Black Man, 6-6, 200 pound center 

who was the first Big Black to be named a 

NCAA All-American, the first Big Black to 

play on the U. S. Men's Olympic Basketball 

team in 1948, and he was a NBA All-Star 

Gamer in 1953, after which he was inducted 

into the NBA HOF, but in high school he 

was cut from the team by the coach at Berkeley 

High for three straight years because he didn't 

want more than one Big Black Guy on the 

team, however that did not stop him from 

earning a full sports scholarship to UCLA 

and selected that year as the top center of 

the Pacific Coast Conference, plus he was 

a formidable high jumper and the 1944 

triple jump champion at the USA Track and 

Field outdoor Championships, plus he and 

his team won the Gold Medal at the 1951 

Pan American Games, and did you know 

that he became the first Big Black Radio 

Disc Jockey in the San Francisco Bay Area 

in 1948, the first Big Black beer distributor, 

the first Big Black TV host in the Bay Area 

on KRON-TV on a show called Sepia Review,

and was the first Big Black to play in a NBA 

All-Star game, and later he started his own 

recording label and opened two nightclubs 

in the Oakland area, while launching a 

successful drive to save high school sports 

in the Oakland School District, 

and so much more...






 ....Don Barksdale!







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, July 10, 2026

Black Basketball History Month!... Hoopster Of The Wee...Sophia Witherspoon!

  

The 'Hoopster Of The Week'

for this week 

goes to: 

the Big Black Lady, 5-10, 145, a guard who 

played for seven seasons in the WNBA, and 

who won The WNBA Championship and Ring 

in 2002 with the Sparks, and she is held in 

such high esteem at the college she played for, 

the U. Florida Gators that they established an 

Award, the Sophia Witherspoon Award, in 

her honor for two Gator athletes who are 

great in the classroom and on the field, 

and so much more...





...Sophia Witherspoon!






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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