Tommy Woods (basketball), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American professional basketball player
Date of Birth: 10-Jun-1943
Place of Birth: Blount County, Tennessee, United States
Profession: basketball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Tommy Woods (basketball)
- James Thomas Woods, Jr.
- (born June 10, 1943) is a retired American professional basketball player.
- He played for the Kentucky Colonels during the 1967–68 ABA season after a collegiate career at East Tennessee State University (ETSU).
- He also played internationally for a time after his one season in the ABA.Woods was a racial integration pioneer in college.
- When he enrolled at ETSU as a freshman in 1963–64 to play basketball, he became the first African-American player in school history.
- In a segregated southern United States, Woods was harshly booed early in his college career.
- His final three seasons from 1964 to 1967, in which he was eligible to play for the varsity team, saw Woods have an ETSU Hall of Fame career.
- He was a two-time All-Ohio Valley Conference Team selection and set still-unbroken school records for rebounds in a game (38), career (1,034) and career per-game average (16.2).
- By the end of his career, the same fans who had been booing him as a freshman were giving him "loudest and longest" standing ovation on senior night that a local reporter had ever seen.After college, Woods played in the American Basketball Association for the Kentucky Colonels for one season.
- After a brief stint playing internationally, he retired due to an injury.
- Woods then served as a police officer in Louisville, Kentucky for the next 30-plus years.
- In 1996, ETSU inducted him into their hall of fame.
- On November 3, 2012, in a ceremony prior to the school's 2012–13 season, the men's basketball locker room was named in his honor.
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