1947, Wataru Misaka a Japanese American was the first player of color and first American of Asian descent and the first non-Caucasian person to play in the National Basketball Association(NBA), known

1947, Wataru Misaka a Japanese American was the first player of color and first American of Asian descent and the first non-Caucasian person to play in the National Basketball Association(NBA), known then as the Basketball Association of America (BAA)[22] making him the person that broke the professional basketball color barrier the same year that Baseball player Jackie Robinson broke the Baseball color barrier.