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Shares best home record in NBA history (with 1985–86 Boston Celtics), with only loss inflicted by the 73–9 Warriors; Best home start in NBA history (39–0), part of a 48-game home winning streak dating back to 2014–15 season
For the 1999-2000 NBA season, TBS shifted its primetime game telecasts from Wednesdays to Mondays. [18] For the 2000-2001 NBA season, the broadcasts were moved to Tuesdays, while TNT assumed rights to Wednesday and Thursday evening games. The retirement of Michael Jordan set in motion the decline in NBA ratings which continued for several years.
High school basketball is a popular activity. [22] [23] The National Federation of State High School Associations featured 541,479 boys and 429,504 girls in basketball teams as of the 2014–15 season. [24] Many high school basketball teams have intense local followings, especially in the Midwest and Upper South.
The instrumental piece, first composed in 1990 for NBC, soundtracked the network's NBA coverage from 1990 to 2002 and will do so again starting in 2025. [57] [58] During periods when NBC hasn't broadcast the NBA, it has used the theme for its Olympic basketball coverage, first in 2008 and then in every Summer Olympics since 2016. [59] [60] [61 ...
The following is a timeline of the organizational changes in the National Basketball Association (NBA), including contractions, expansions, relocations, and divisional realignment. The league was formed as the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1946 and took its current name in 1949.
During the 1993–94 NBA season, Stacey King was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for 7'2" center Luc Longley. [11] Longley's emergence for the Bulls during the 1994–95 season made Will Perdue expendable. [12] Just before the start of the 1995–96 season, Perdue was traded to the San Antonio Spurs for Dennis Rodman. [13]
Bailey went on to become Indiana's men's all-time high school leading scorer and would earn All-America honors playing for the Indiana Hoosiers. He became a cult figure during the late 1980s and early 1990s in Indiana. [1] Bailey was an assistant coach of the Butler University's women's basketball team from 2014 to 2017. [2] [3]
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 ...