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The 1965–66 Texas Western Miners basketball team represented Texas Western College, now the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), led by Hall of Fame head coach Don Haskins. The team won the national championship in 1966 , becoming the first team with an all-black starting lineup to do so. [ 1 ]
The Legends Classic began in 2007 with the first two events being played at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. In that first year, only the four regional-round hosts were guaranteed to play four games, [1] as Texas, Tennessee, West Virginia, and New Mexico State each hosted a pair of games, before advancing to the semifinals in Newark.
The NBA cancelled the NBA Legends Classic after 1994 due to the players' frequent injuries from the game in part due to the apparent wide range in fitness levels between players recently retired and those who had not played seriously in recent years (During the 1992 game, Norm Nixon and David Thompson both sustained significant injuries playing ...
Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...
All four players combined won a league-record 68 games together under Hannum's watch. The team scored a record 125 points per game , leading all teams in shooting accuracy. The 76ers started the season at 46–4, still the best 50 game start in league history (tied by the Golden State Warriors in the 2015–16 season).
The 1966 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1966 NBA Playoffs, which concluded the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1965–66 season.The Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics faced the Western Division champion Los Angeles Lakers in a best-of-seven series that the Celtics won 4 games to 3.
The 1966 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1965–66 season.The tournament concluded with the Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Division champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals.