Sweetwater
"The man who changed the game."
In 1990 Chicago, a taxi driver recounts to his passenger, a sportswriter, his life story. He reveals himself to be Nat "Sweetwater" Clifton, one of the first African Americans to play in the NBA.


Nathaniel 'Sweetwater' Clifton

Ned Irish

Joe Lapchick

Judd

Sports Writer

Maurice Podoloff

Abe Saperstein

Eddie Gottlieb

Miles Slocum

Donnie Grossman

Jeanne Staples

Sweetwater's Mother

Pop

Barker

Frank

T-Bone

Coach Will Robinson

Referee Pete

Dan

Mrs. Lapchick

Arthur "Art" Webb

Young Sweetwater

Teen Sweetwater
Dick McGuire
Babe

Earl "Big Cat" Llyod
Chuck Cooper
Norm Drucker

Autograph Seeking Boy (uncredited)

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