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The original intention of the birth of the NBA league was actually very simple, at that time ice hockey was the mainstream of society, but those team owners who had ice hockey stadiums did not want their arenas to be idle in the off-season of ice hockey, they wanted to form a league that could be used in the off-season of ice hockey, another sports program, selected and selected, and selected basketball, so eleven owners jointly raised funds, and the predecessor of the NBA, BAA, was born (BAA: Basketball Association of america）。
At the beginning of its establishment, the BAA logo as for why the basketball project was chosen, the reason was also very simple, at that time there were three mainstream team competitive sports in the United States, baseball, rugby and ice hockey, these three projects at that time, have been born a very stable commercial league, outsiders want to get involved in the very difficult, in addition to these three major projects, basketball is a very popular sport for young people at that time, and the basketball game does not have high requirements for the venue, can be held indoors, not affected by the weather, so the development of the schedule can also be arbitrarily planned by the league, and the most important thing is that the NBL, the basketball league in the United States at that time, was not in a good state of operation, on the verge of bankruptcy for several seasons in a row.
NBL Logo NBA officially recognized league was founded on June 6, 1946, in New York, the first president was the president of the ice hockey league, Morris Poprodov, at the beginning of its establishment, the BAA had a total of eleven teams, two of which have not moved or changed their names until now - the New York Knicks and the Boston Celtics, and there is a team that still exists but changed the city - The Philadelphia Warriors (now the Golden State Warriors) and the remaining eight teams, such as the Toronto Huskies, Pittsburgh Irons, Chicago Bucks, etc., have long been drowned in the long river of history.
The first season in the history of the NBA was the 1946-1947 season, and the first official game was played on November 1, 1946 at the Maple Leaf Garden Arena in Toronto, Canada, where the Toronto Huskies lost 66-68 to the New York Knicks at home, when a total of 7,090 spectators attended the first game of the NBA.
The Toronto Huskies marked a layup by Knicks member Benjamin Scheckettman, who scored the first point in NBA history, and since then, the NBA's historical curtain has slowly opened, in a historical sense, Scheekettman's layup history is of great significance, and he should be inducted into the Hall of Fame, but unfortunately not, this old man only played this one season, averaging 8 per game1 point, died in 2013.
After an epoch-making 60 games, the Philadelphia Warriors won their first championship in NBA history, and the team's star Joe Fox took his one-handed jumper to the next level at a league-high 30He shot 2% from the field and averaged 23 percent from the field2 points became the scoring champion in NBA history for the first season, and Fox is also considered the first person in basketball to reform his shooting methods, Folkes was killed by his girlfriend's son *** in 1976, and Fox was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1978.
After Joe Fox's brilliant first season, difficulties soon followed, the owners overestimated the acceptance of basketball in the hearts of American fans, and more people still liked to watch baseball, football and ice hockey, only in the second season, the Cleveland Defectors, Detroit Hawks, Pittsburgh Irons, Toronto Huskies four teams because of poor management or withdrawal from the league, or outright bankruptcy, there are only 7 teams left in the league, it is very difficult to make a full schedule, thanks to the Baltimore Bullets** Entering the BAA, this made the struggling BAA play the second season with difficulty.
Regarding the reason why Baltimore Bullets joined the BAA, to briefly say, in the basketball league of the United States at that time, in addition to BAA, there were two basketball leagues, NBL (National Basketball League) and ABL (American Basketball League), the history of NBL can be traced back to 1937, it is the league with the most participating teams among the three leagues, but the teams are mostly based in small second- and third-tier cities, the ball market is not large and the management is relatively chaotic, and it is struggling on the verge of bankruptcy every year.
Although the ABL has the longest history among the three leagues, dating back to 1925, the AFL has never developed due to the Great Depression and World War II experienced by the United States, and sometimes even directly suspended for a whole year, and the management is more chaotic than the NBL, such as a team called Brooklyn Acadia, which went bankrupt after only a few games.
The Baltimore Bullets are members of the ABL, this team is strong, winning the ABL championship for four consecutive years, the team owner is eager to pursue a bigger ball market, and wanted to join at the beginning of the BAA's establishment, but because of Baltimore's dilapidated and too small arena and the location of the slums, they were rejected by the BAA, and it was not until the second season of the BAA, when the league was about to lose its game, they considered absorbing the Bullets into the league, and in this way, the 8-team BAA began its journey for the second season。
The 1947-1948 season of the Bullets was the most difficult season in the NBA, with the number of teams shrinking to only 48 games in the entire season. Because before 1969, the NBA selected the scoring champion based on total points, Joe Folkes, who missed 5 games and scored a total of 949 points, lost to the Chicago Bucks player Max Zaslowski, who scored 1007 points, and missed the scoring title, and the latter is also the only player in NBA history who has won the scoring title but has not been inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Although Max Zaslowski has been operating BAA for two years is facing various difficulties, anyone with a discerning eye can see that the development prospects of BAA are much broader than NBL and ABL, and the bosses who set up BAA are not sports novices who have two bad money in their hands, each of them has an ice hockey team under their name, not only has rich management experience, but also can let the ice hockey team advertise for their basketball team for free, expand their influence, and most importantly, each of these owners has a stadium in their hands, which saves a lot of money in the cost of leasing the arena, which will greatly alleviate the operational pressure, which BAA currently lacks, just some bosses who are really powerful and dare to play competitive sports.
As a result, before the start of the 1948-1949 season, four more NBL teams switched to the arms of the BAA - Fort Wayne Pistons, Indianapolis Jets, Rochester Royals, and the Minneapolis Lakers, the most important team in the three major American basketball leagues at that time, so the total number of teams under the BAA league reached 12.
A brief introduction to these four teams.
Fort Wayne Pistons logo Fort Wayne Pistons is the predecessor of the current Detroit Pistons, founded in 1941, the team owner is to Ford for auto parts, so named the Pistons, the Pistons were also a very strong team in the NBL before, won the NBL championship twice, seeing the Baldmore Bullets achieved great success in the BAA last season, the Pistons' heart was also itchy, so they gave up the NBL and switched to the arms of the BAA.
Indianapolis Jets, this team was established as early as 1931, but the owner is not financially strong, just a merchant who sells groceries, and the strength is not very strong due to economic limitations, but there is a player in this team who has become an iconic figure in American basketball in the future, this person is called John Wooden, Wooden was a household name in American basketball before 1940, won a scoring title in the NBL, the 1942 Christmas game was the first recorded Christmas game in American basketball, Wooden scored 3 points in this game, and announced his retirement after the game to join the NavyLater, Wooden's coaching of the NCAA was hugely successful, and the NCAA's most important award, Player of the Year, was named after Wooden.
Iconic American Basketball Figures – John Wooden Rochester Royals, the predecessor of King Saramento, was founded in 1946, called Rochester Siffram when it was in the NBL, yes, your feeling is not wrong, the owner of the Royals Les Harrison is selling alcohol, Harris's team is not very competitive, but this person is extremely obsessed with basketball, the budget is not enough, the owner comes to make up, after the team was established for five or six consecutive years, Harrison also served as the team owner, general manager, head coach, press spokesman, equipment manager, assistant coach and other positions, it is precisely because of financial constraints that the team regrets missing Bill Russell in the future, we will talk about this later。
Minneapolis Lakers, the birth of this team is destined to be extraordinary, as early as the thirties of the last century, Minneapolis has become the largest city in Minnesota by relying on developed water transportation, and the city's population accounts for half of the total population of the state, but the embarrassment is that until 1946, Minneapolis did not have a professional team in the three major leagues, after the end of World War II, the people of Minnesota, who had just been freed from the tension of the war, urgently needed a professional team to vent their emotions.
Minneapolis Lakers Sign In 1946, when the NBL's Detroit Gems went bankrupt, Sid Hartman, a reporter who was still working at the newspaper, quickly contacted two businessmen, Ben Berg and Morris Chalfin, to buy the rights to the Gems for $15,000, and relocated the Gems from Detroit to Minneapolis and renamed the Lakers.
The history of the Lakers mentioned above can be ignored, you just need to remember one person's name, George McCann, yes, the first superstar in NBA history, played for this team, McCann is not only very skilled, but also handsome, modest, well-mannered, and has a strong personal charisma, which comes from his nickname "Mr. Basketball" It can be seen that McCann had a huge number of fans at that time, and it can also be said that it was precisely because McCann came to BAA with the Lakers that this league, which was established only 4 years ago, quickly became popular all over the country.
McCann's Lakers have since won four championships in five years, creating the NBA's first three-game dynasty, the BAA and even the NBA after that had to modify the rules many times to limit McCann's strong dominance, to this day, McCann's influence in the NBA is still good, and now many star idols are McCann, such as the big shark O'Neal, he is McCann's die-hard fan, McCann after retiring, committed to fighting for pensions for old players before 1967, for which he did not hesitate to scatter his family wealth, and auctioned off all the championship rings, trophies, jerseys, etc., so McCann was poor when he diedO'Neal financed McCann to have a decent funeral.
Shortly after the Lakers won the championship in the first season of the BAA, the time came to August 3, 1949, which was a very important point in the history of the NBA.
The original BAA had 12 teams, but at the end of the season, the Providence Steamrollers went bankrupt and disbanded, and the NBL had six teams join the family, these six teams are the Anderson Packers, Denver Nuggets, West Bergan Reds, Syracuse Nationals, Tri-City Black Hawks and Waterloo Eagles, so the NBA has become a huge league with 17 teams.
In the 1949-1950 season, the Syracuse Nation showed great competitiveness, winning 51 of their 64 regular season games, ranking first in the league, with a 31-1 record and a 96-96 record at homeA 9% home win rate is a record until now, and they have made it all the way to the Finals, losing six games against the Minneapolis Lakers who own McCann.
The reason why the Syracuse Nation is so bullish is because there is a strong bull breaker in the team, 21-year-old Dolph Shays, who is 201 cm taller than McCann, but his body is stronger and more ** Shayce also has a very accurate long-range shooting kung fu at the time, is the first center with long-range shooting ability in the NBA, Shays has a career of 14 years, all of which play for the nation, but his career is a little bit back, he was suppressed by McCann in the early stage of his career, and met Bill Russell in the later stage, only after McCann retired, Russell has not come to this stall in the NBA and won the only championship.
Dolph Shays, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1973, died in 2015 The first season of the NBA, which ended with the Lakers winning the championship, the league seems to be happy, but in fact, there are many hidden contradictions, the main contradiction, of course, is money, if you look carefully at the previous NBL teams, you will find that the teams from the NBL are generally second- and third-tier small cities, the owners have no money, and the ball market is not big.
The original BAA are all big bosses, and the cities are all first-tier cities, because the main income of the team at that time was to sell tickets, so the owners of the original BAA teams were unwilling to share the ticket income equally with the original NBL teams, and even forced the teams of these small ball cities to move to big cities, so the NBA only one season later, the six teams of the original NBL who joined the NBA, except for the National and the Tri-City Black Hawks, the other four teams withdrew from the NBA and re-formed the NBL, but it is obvious that under the obscenity of the NBA, the second-formed NBL died out not long after, and the Tri-City Black Hawks first moved to Milwaukeeand moved to St. Louis a year later.
The St. Louis Hawks logo, this team is now the Atlanta Hawks Note that the Denver Nuggets, who only existed in the NBA for one year, are not the current Denver Nuggets, and there is no inheritance in history, but they are all called by the same name.
The loss of 5 teams in one breath put the NBA into difficulties again, and to add insult to injury, in the following three years, the Washington Congress, the Chicago Bucks, the St. Louis bombers, and the Indianapolis Jets four teams also went bankrupt and disbanded, and the once glorious Baltimore Bullets, with only six players before the 1954 season, also announced their dissolution after 14 games, and the Bullets became the last team in NBA history to be disbanded because of bankruptcy, and the only team that won the championship but went bankrupt。
The newly formed NBA has encountered the same predicament as the BAA before - the number of teams in the league is too small, at its lowest, there were only eight teams, the New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Philadelphia Warriors, Minneapolis Lakers, Fort Wayne Pistons, Syracuse Nationals, Rochester Royals and St. Louis Hawks, before the Chicago Packers joined the NBA in 1961, there were only eight teams in the entire league.
No. 99 is McCann's early days in the NBA league, McCann's dominance under the basket is unparalleled, the NBA has modified the rules many times, such as expanding the three-second zone, such as interfering with the ball, etc., can not limit McCann's dominance, so some teams have thought of some side doors, the most common is to drag out time, as long as they are ahead, the rest of the time is to hold the ball you pass to me, I pass it to you, dead or alive is not to shoot, such as November 22, 1950, the Pistons challenged the Lakers away, this ball simply played this side door to the extreme, from the beginning of the game, as long as one side is ahead, and then let him shoot is as uncomfortable as constipationIn the end, after 48 minutes of the game, the Pistons narrowly defeated the Lakers by one point at 19:18, McCann scored 15 points alone, and the two teams scored only 37 points in the whole game, which also set a record for the lowest scoring of an NBA team.
In 1953, Danny Biasson, the owner of the Syracuse Nation, proposed to the league a 24-second offensive time, which was quickly adopted by the NBA and officially launched in 1954.
At the same time, in order to improve the viewing level of the game, the NBA opened the All-Star Game in 1951, and the Celtics' first Hall of Fame-level star Ed McCauley won the first All-Star MVP in NBA history
In the few seasons before the merger of the BAA and the NBL, the Celtics have always belonged to the role of playing soy sauce, and the team's scoring champion was once Bob Kinney, who averaged only 11 points per game, and his record was strained year after year, and in 1950, the arrival of a person completely changed the Celtics, and even affected their history for nearly 70 years.
After the end of the first season of the NBA in 1950, the Tri-City Black Hawks moved to Milwaukee and changed their name to the Milwaukee Hawks, and their head coach did not want to be too far from home, and instead chose to accept the invitation of the Celtics and came to Boston.
In 1950, the St. Louis bombers were disbanded, and Al Barr immediately recruited the bombers' star center Ed Macaulay, who soon became the star of the Celtics, averaging about 20 points and 9 rebounds per game, not only won the first All-Star MVP in NBA history, but also was selected to the best team for three consecutive years, and became a first-line star in the league.
Ed Macaulay, inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1960, died in 2011 in the 1950 draft, is the first draft after the merger of BAA and NBL, the Boston Celtics with the top pick selected Chuck Scheer, who is 211 cm tall, and the third pick in the first round was originally the Three Cities Black Hawks, the Black Hawks sold the signing rights to the Chicago Bucks in order to relieve financial pressure, but it happened that the Bucks went bankrupt immediately after the completion of the transaction, and the players on the team were divided between the Celtics, the Knicks and the Philadelphia Warriors with the worst record, and the Celtics chose to come to this draft pick, thus selecting small guard Bob CousyNext season, the Celtics sent Schell to the Fort Wayne Pistons to get shooter Bill Sharman.
The ball carrier is Bill Sharman Macaulay, Cousie, Sharman are all future Hall of Fame level stars, and their abilities are naturally extraordinary, especially Cousy, his self-created back dribble, not looking at people and other skills are all the rage, Cousy has also become the league's first king of point guards, eight consecutive years of assist kings, this achievement is unprecedented and unprecedented, under the leadership of Cousey, the Celtics hold high the banner of offense, scoring per game, assisting per game are the highest in the league, the most ferocious offensive firepower year, Macaulay, Cousey and Sharman are all in the league's top ten points per game, but similarly, their average points per game are also the highest in the leagueThe defense seems to have become the Achilles heel of the Bostoners, so that the Celtics always fall short in key games, losing to the Syracuse Nation and the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals in a row, at this time Orr ** realized that the team urgently needed a player who could help the team in defense and rebounding.
It wasn't until 1956 that a geek entered the NBA draft.
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