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Cleo Hill

By Stuart Buck

From ESPN's "Black Magic" series on basketball players from historically black colleges, there's a good video about Cleo Hill. As one article points out: Had he played for another team or in another time, maybe you'd know Cleo Hill's name. Maybe most everyone would.CBS analyst Billy Packer saw him play in college and considers him a forerunner to David Thompson and Michael Jordan.Hill was "probably the greatest player of his time, black or white," sportswriter Howie Evans contends in "Black Magic," a two-part documentary premiering Sunday on ESPN that explores lives of players from historically black schools during the civil rights movement.Such promise prompted then-St. Louis Hawks executive Marty Blake to pick Hill eighth overall in the 1961 NBA draft...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on March 23, 2008 (boomark / email).