AdvertisementFive Minutes With First Black Man To Play For The NBANovember 02, 2013Gene DembyfacebookEmailSyracuse's Earl Lloyd (11) stretches for a ball during the first period of a 1955 NBA basketball playoff game in Indianapolis. Lloyd remembers suiting up for the Washington Capitols 63 years ago as the first black man to play in an NBA game: "It was a walk in the park." (AP)