History NBA

2007-05-26T22:13:00.000Z

The best league of the world is born as a complement for the major American spectacle at the time, the ice hockey of the 40s, in that epoch the leaders of the North American sport saw to the basketball as the perfect sport in order that the people continued filling the sports scenes(stages), while the league of hockey was taking the winter rest. But still(yet) there did not exist an organization that was giving coherence to the professional basketball and the equipments(teams) were formed and were falling apart with rapidity because of the lack of a calendar and of a few really constructed competitions.

Since(As) the basketball Max Kase was growing in popularity, a publisher(editor) of sports of the New York Journal-American, he(she) thought about the possibility of a professional league of major and took the idea to the owner of the National Hockey League, Walter Brown, and this one in turn gave himself(itself) it to Ned Irish.In June, 1946 the first meeting of the Basketball Association realized of America (BAA), name that received newly formed league. Only 3 equipments(teams) of 11 initials have had the aptitude to survive until our days. These are the Boston Celtics, the Knicks of New York and the Golden State Warriors

Also it(he,she) influenced his(her,your) popularity the quality that there contributed to the game new strategies and the veterans' talent of war that returned to join the equipments(teams). For this moment already there existed professional leagues of basketball and the NBL, one of them, he(she) was monopolizing the majority of the big players.Initially(Originally) the players remained in the NBL, but in 1950 the BAA and the NBL they joined forming what today is known as the National Basketball Association (NBA), with Maurice Podoloff as his(her,your) first commissioner.

The party(game) inagural was a Nueva York Knicks - Toronto "Huskies" that the first one ended up by conquering for 68-66. One year later the first edition of the Pau Gasol was realized, Bob Cousy made début in the league and Chuck Cooper trasformó in the first player of color in being chosen in the draft.One of the changes, also in the 50, which did of the basketball a much more exciting and fast sport was of establishing 24 seconds for every assault.. With the arrival of 80 the NBA it(he,she) enters a condition of total stability until our days.