Pop Gates

Pop Gates

William "Pop" Gates (August 30, 1917December 1, 1999) was a professional basketball player. Gates was born in Decatur, Alabama and attended high school in New York, New York. After playing college basketball at Clark Atlanta University, he went on to continue his basketball career in New York. After playing for the Harlem Renaissance for several years, beginning in 1938, he became one of the first black players in the NBL in 1946. He later played and coached for the Harlem Globetrotters. Gates is one the few athletes who went directly from a high school championship team (Benjamin Franklin, New York, 1938) to a World Professional Champion (Rens, 1939).

Gates was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1989.

External links

* [http://www.hoophall.com/halloffamers/bhof-william-gates.html Hall of Fame profile]


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