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The youngest player ever to play in the NBA was Andrew Bynum, who played his first game only six days after his 18th birthday. The oldest active player is LeBron James, who is currently 40 years, 13 days old. He is the only active player who was born before 1985.
This is a list of basketball players who are the leaders in career regular season games played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). [a] Statistics accurate as of January 10, 2025. Robert Parish has played the most games in NBA history.
BAA merged with NBL and was renamed NBA; 2 teams folded prior to the season; 6 NBL teams joined; 1 expansion team joined [8] 1950–51: Minneapolis Lakers: 44–24 (.647) 1951 — — 1951: Rochester Royals: 11 66–69 3 teams left the NBA for the NPBL; 3 teams folded prior to the season; 1 team folded during the season; the first All-Star Game ...
Games played on this day have featured some of the best teams and players. [160] [161] [162] Christmas is also notable for NBA on television, as the holiday is when the first NBA games air on network television each season. [161] [162] Games played on this day have been some of the highest-rated games during a particular season.
The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America.The league launched with 11 teams playing a 60-game schedule. The postseason tournament (the 1947 BAA Playoffs) at its conclusion, ended with the Philadelphia Warriors becoming the first BAA Champion, beating the Chicago Stags 4 games to 1 in the BAA Finals.
The first NBA game played on December 25 came in 1947, a year after the NBA's inception, when the New York Knicks beat the Providence Steamrollers at Madison Square Garden 89–75. [1] Since then, the NBA has played games every year on Christmas Day except in 1998 (when a lockout canceled half the 1998–99 season).
The Knicks won the game 68–66. Schectman's basket is considered the first in NBA history. [6] Schectman played 54 games for the Knicks in his one season with the team. He suffered a serious internal injury in a game in Chicago in March, 1947. [4] In that one season, Schectman averaged 8.1 points per game, ranking 39th in the league. [7]
As of 2023, Parish is first on the list of National Basketball Association career games played leaders with 1,611 games played [30] and is tied for second-most seasons played in NBA history with 21. [31] As of 2022, he is the oldest player to win an NBA championship, having been a member of the NBA champion Chicago Bulls in 1997 at the age of ...