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...that although no male National Collegiate Athletic Association player has won consecutive Naismith College Player of the Year Awards since 1983, four women, most recently shooting guard Seimone Augustus of the Louisiana State University Lady Tigers, have done so?
...that centers Wilt Chamberlain (pictured) and Bill Russell, respectively first and second on the ranking of National Basketball Association players by career rebounds, combined to post 26 of the 28 40-plus rebound games in league history?
...that between 1945 and 1953, the Uruguay national team lost just one of its twenty-one South American Basketball Championship games, outscoring opponents by a combined 228 points and capturing three continental titles?
...that although the color barrier in the National Basketball Association was not broken until 1950, Bill Brown, John Isaacs, and Zack Clayton became the first African-Americans to play basketball in a professional North American league in 1946 when they contested the 1946 Eastern Professional Basketball League season with the Hazleton Mountaineers?
...that Los Angeles Sparks point guard Penny Toler, one of two players allocated to the team in the initial WNBA draft, scored both the first field goal and the first free throw recorded in the Women's National Basketball Association?

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