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As a result, the league dropped from 22 to 12 teams, and a majority of the remaining teams were centered around the East Coast instead of the Midwest, where the NFL had started. The New York Yankees were added from the American Football League (AFL I) and the Cleveland Bulldogs returned.
2002–03 to 2003–04 NBA teams Eastern Western; Atlantic: Central: Midwest: Pacific: Boston Celtics: Atlanta Hawks: Dallas Mavericks: Golden State Warriors: Miami Heat: Chicago Bulls: Denver Nuggets: Los Angeles Clippers: New Jersey Nets: Cleveland Cavaliers: Houston Rockets: Los Angeles Lakers: New York Knicks: Detroit Pistons: Memphis ...
Throughout the years, a number of teams in the National Football League (NFL) have either moved or merged.. In the early years, the NFL was not stable and teams moved frequently to survive, or folded only to be resurrected in a different city with the same players and owners, while the Great Depression era saw the movement of most surviving small-town NFL teams to larger cities to ensure ...
The National Basketball Association has undergone several rounds of expansion in the league's history, since it began play in 1946, to reach 30 teams. The most recent examples are the additions of the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat in 1988; the Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic in 1989; the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies in 1995 (who relocated to Memphis in 2001); and the ...
Between 1970 and the 2002 expansion to 32 teams, the league used scheduling rubrics with similarities to the present model, though they were adjusted for the number of teams and divisions. The only time between the merger and 2002 (when the league was realigned into eight divisions of four teams each) that the league was completely "balanced ...
Finally, as the Houston Texans joined the league in 2002 as the 32nd and, currently, the last team, 2002 NFL expansion draft was held for them. The rules of the draft had been adjusted following the reception of the 1999 one.
Paul Tagliabue was elected as commissioner to succeed Rozelle; his 17-year tenure, which ended in 2006, was marked by large increases in television contracts and the addition of four expansion teams, [32] as well as the introduction of league initiatives to increase the number of minorities in league and team management roles. [33]
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).