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The 2000–01 NBA season was the 55th season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Los Angeles Lakers winning their second straight championship, beating the Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 1 in the 2001 NBA Finals .
The league adopted the NBA name at the start of the 1949–50 season when it merged with the National Basketball League (NBL). [2] The NBA is an active member of USA Basketball, which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) as the national governing body for basketball in the country. [3]
The season began on November 2, 1999, and ended with the Los Angeles Lakers winning the NBA championship, beating the Indiana Pacers 4 games to 2 in the 2000 NBA Finals. Players warming up prior to an April 2000 game between the Charlotte Hornets and the season's eventual Eastern Conference champions Indiana Pacers at the Charlotte Coliseum.
The early-2000s NBA scarcely resembled today’s spread-out, free-flowing ecosystem. ... to oust the perennial power Pistons and make his first NBA Finals in just his fourth season, he found San ...
Bill Russell (left) and Wilt Chamberlain (center), who voted as players, were selected as two of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Michael Jordan was active at the time of the announcement of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Shaquille O'Neal was the last active member of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.
We compiled recent photos of 1990s and 2000s basketball stars to see how the times have really changed -- for some more than others. See what NBA stars of the 1990s and 2000s look like now Skip to ...
The 2000–01 NBA season was the Bucks' 33rd season in the National Basketball Association. [1] The Bucks received the fifteenth overall pick in the 2000 NBA draft, and selected Jason Collier out of Georgia Tech University, but soon traded him to the Houston Rockets in exchange for top draft pick Joel Przybilla from the University of Minnesota; the Bucks also drafted Michael Redd out of Ohio ...
Factors like inferior athleticism obviously benefitted players of several decades ago, which has to be accounted for, too. Below, we tried our hand at ranking the 25 best NBA players ever.