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The following is a timeline of the organizational changes in the National Basketball Association (NBA), including contractions, expansions, relocations, and divisional realignment. The league was formed as the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1946 and took its current name in 1949.
Silver and the NBA's leadership team largely viewed sports betting as something that was a potential positive, especially in the case where there would be uniform laws across all 50 states. [117] In 2019, the NBA signed a multi-year deal with the Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts to make them the official gaming partner of the NBA and WNBA. [118]
ABC then gained the NBA in 1964, airing its first NBA game on January 3, 1965. Up until the 1970–71 season, ABC often aired NBA games as segments of its popular ABC's Wide World of Sports anthology series rather than standalone broadcasts. CBS took over national rights from ABC in 1973. The late 1970s and early 1980s was notoriously known as ...
The NBA is currently in its best era of basketball, and the vast majority of the biggest stars are international players, with a large amount of those players being European. Nikola Jokić is the ...
April 20, 1986: Scores an NBA-record 63 points in a playoff game, a 135-131 overtime loss to Boston. April 16, 1987: Scores 61 points in a loss to Atlanta, capping three-game stretch during which ...
A quirk of NBA blowouts is the final score often doesn't reflect how ugly things got at one point. Enormous deficits can be softened by several minutes of low-effort, low-stakes basketball.
The NBA is an active member of USA Basketball (USAB), [6] which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) as the governing body for basketball in the United States. The NBA is the second-wealthiest professional sports league in the world by revenue after the National Football League (NFL). [7]
The 1992 NBA All-Star Game and Barcelona Olympics were approaching—meanwhile, players didn’t want to be on the court with Johnson, he said. They feared getting HIV, too, as stigma and ...