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[7] [26] Prior to the merge, the league held the 1949 college draft on March 21, which was the last event held under the name BAA. [21] The NBA later adopted the BAA's history and statistics as its own but did not do the same for NBL records and statistics. [4] [5] [27]
The 1949–50 NBA season was the fourth season of the National Basketball Association.It was the first season after the merger of the 3-year-old BAA and 12-year-old NBL. [1] [2] The 1950 NBA playoffs ended with the Minneapolis Lakers winning the NBA Championship, beating the Syracuse Nationals in 6 games in the NBA Finals.
This article presents a timeline of events in the history of the United Kingdom from 1950 until 1969. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the related history of the British Isles .
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II , aided by the post-World War II economic expansion .
22 March – Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (died 2012) 27 March – Terry Yorath, footballer and football manager; 30 March – Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian (died 2022) [38] 3 April – Sally Thomsett, actress; 19 April – Julia Cleverdon, charity worker; 20 April – Robert Mair, engineer and academic; 22 April
The history of the FIBA Basketball World Cup began in 1950, with the first FIBA Basketball World Cup, which was the 1950 FIBA World Championship.The FIBA Basketball World Cup is an international basketball competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), the sport's global governing body.
28 March Home Championship: Scotland ... 2 July 1950 FIFA World Cup Group 2: Spain ... 6 April Home Championship: England ...
Heathrow Airport Holdings is a company that operates and manages Heathrow Airport based in London, England.It was formed by the privatisation of the British Airports Authority as BAA plc [2] as part of Margaret Thatcher's privatisation of government-owned assets, and was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.