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Professional Basketball League of America (PBLA), 1947–1948; National Industrial Basketball League (NIBL), 1947–1961; National Professional Basketball League (NPBL), 1950–1951; American Basketball League (ABL), 1961–1963; Midwest Professional Basketball League (MPBL) (1961-1964) North American Basketball League (1964-1968), (NABL) 1964 ...
The American Basketball Association (ABA) Finals were the championship series of the ABA, a professional basketball league, in which two teams played each other for the title. The ABA was formed in the fall of 1967, and the first ABA Finals were played at the end of the league's first season in the spring of 1968.
So the league opted to force the hands of the Celtics ownership. The teams in the league agreed prohibiting any games against the Celtics, and this left the Celtics with a dilemma. They could either join the American Basketball League, or they could try and schedule games against lesser competition, thus possibly losing out on drawing bigger ...
The Falcons played only in the inaugural season of the BAA and finished 4th in the Western Division with a 20–40 record, 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 games out of first place. Stan Miasek was the team's star, scoring 895 points (14.9 points per game) and making the BAA's First-Team that year.
However, due to fewer teams in the league caused by World War II, the NBL was not separated into divisions between 1940–41 and 1943–44, therefore the playoffs included the top four teams in the single-division league. Home court advantage was determined by better overall record heading into the championship series.
American Basketball League (ABL) is a name that has been used by four defunct basketball leagues in the US: American Basketball League (1925–1955), the first major professional basketball league; American Basketball League (1961–1962), a league that only played a single full season; American Basketball League (1996–1998), a women's ...
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional men's basketball league, consisting of thirty teams in North America (twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada). The NBA was founded in New York City on June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). [1]
Other rules that set the league apart from the National Basketball Association (NBA) were a 30-second shooting clock, as opposed to 24, and a wider free throw lane of 18 feet instead of the NBA's then-standard 12; the NBA would later expand their free throw lane to 16 feet (a couple of feet shorter than the ABL's free throw lane) a few years ...