page_title: Earl Lloyd
section_title: Honors
hierarchical_section_title: Earl Lloyd / Honors
caption_attribution_description: Vice President Joe Biden greets Earl Lloyd, the first African American to play in the NBA, in his West Wing Office, October 27, 2010. (Official White House Photo by David Lienemann) This official White House photograph is in the public domain from a copyright perspective, so while restrictions such as personality or privacy rights may apply, in general, manipulations are allowed.
context_page_description: Earl Francis Lloyd was an American professional basketball player and coach. He was the first African American player to have played a game in the National Basketball Association. An All-American player at West Virginia State University, Lloyd helped lead the Syracuse Nationals to the NBA Championship in 1955. Lloyd was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003.
context_section_description: In 1993, Lloyd was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
  Lloyd was inducted into the Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) Hall of Fame in 1998.
  The state of Virginia, proclaimed on February 9, 2001 as "Earl Lloyd Day" by action of Virginia's Governor.
  In 2003, Lloyd was inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a contributor.
  Lloyd was named to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Silver and Golden Anniversary Teams.
  The newly constructed basketball court at T. C. Williams High School in Lloyd's home town of Alexandria, Virginia, was named in his honor in 2007. Lloyd attended Parker-Gray High School, as Alexandria's schools were racially-segregated at the time. T.C. Williams—the subject of the motion picture Remember the Titans—was created as a combined, desegregated school two decades later.
  In November 2009, Moonfixer: The Basketball Journey of Earl Lloyd, was released. Lloyd wrote this biography with Syracuse area writer, Sean Kirst.
  In 2012, Lloyd was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame.
  In 2014, a statue of Earl Lloyd was unveiled at West Virginia State University in the Walker Convocation Center. That same year, the "Earl Lloyd Classic" began, hosted at West Virginia State.
  In 2015 Lloyd, along with fellow basketball player Alonzo Mourning, was one of eight Virginians honored in the Library of Virginia's "Strong Men & Women in Virginia History" because of his contributions to the sport of basketball.
  In 2018, the road running in front of the Walker Convocation Center at West Virginia State University was renamed "Earl Lloyd Way."
caption: Lloyd meets Vice-President Joe Biden at the White House., October 2010
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