Misaka, Wat
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- Washington post WWW site, viewed Nov. 25, 2019(in obituary dated Nov. 24, 2019: Wat Misaka; Mr. Misaka became the first nonwhite player in the modern history of professional basketball. Mr. Misaka was 95 when he died Nov. 21 in Salt Lake City. Raised in Ogden, Utah, 30 miles north of Salt Lake City, Wataru Misaka was born Dec. 21, 1923, in Ogden. Mr. Misaka was drafted by the Knicks in 1947. He turned down an offer to play for the Harlem Globetrotters to become an engineer and, after receiving his bachelor's degree in 1948, spent his career in Salt Lake City, working for the Sperry Corp. and retiring in 1981)
- Transcending, 2010 [VR] c2008:title frame (Wat Misaka; Japanese-American basketball player)
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Wataru Misaka (December 21, 1923 – November 20, 2019) was an American professional basketball player. A 5-foot-7-inch (1.70 m) point guard of Japanese descent, he broke a color barrier in professional basketball by being the first non-white player and the first player of Asian descent to play in the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The National Basketball Association (NBA), which was created in 1949 with the merger of the BAA and the NBL, later adopted the BAA's history and thus considers Misaka to be the first non-white player of the league. Misaka played college basketball for the Utah Utes and helped lead the team to championships in the 1944 NCAA tournament and 1947 National Invitation Tournament (NIT). He took a two-year hiatus between these titles to serve in the United States Army in the American occupation of Japan. Misaka subsequently played three games for the New York Knicks during the 1947–48 season.
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