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A college student in India fights the cricket establishment to start a basketball program. Down in the Valley: 2015 Documentary Made for TV as part of ESPN's 30 for 30 series. A look back at the fight of Sacramento and its mayor, former NBA star Kevin Johnson, to keep the Kings from moving to Seattle. I Hate Christian Laettner: 2015 Documentary
Television broadcasting started around the 1950s and has continued to grow and become more sophisticated. When the National Basketball Association broadcasts first aired, they were broken down into four categories including; pre game, halftime, post game, and game coverage.
The NBA saw its NBC ratings [27] for the regular season fall from 4.3 in 1999 to 3.0 in 2000. Meanwhile, the playoff ratings [28] dipped from 6.5 to 4.9. As well as that, NBC began to lose money on the NBA [29] after signing a new media deal in 1998. NBC lost $100 million on the NBA in the 2000–01 season. [30]
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.
On November 9, 1989, the NBA reached an agreement with the network worth US$600 million contract to broadcast the league's games for four years, beginning with the 1990–91 season. On April 28, 1993, NBC extended its exclusive broadcast rights to the NBA with a four-year, $750 million contract. [8] The announcers during this period [9] included:
The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956) – biographical musical film about real-life songwriting team Buddy DeSylva, Lew Brown, and Ray Henderson [243] The Conqueror (1956) – epic historical drama film telling the story of Mongol chief Temujin (later to be known as Genghis Khan ) who battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the ...
The 1949–50 NBA season was the fourth season of the National Basketball Association. It was the first season after the merger of the 3-year-old BAA and 12-year-old NBL . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The 1950 NBA playoffs ended with the Minneapolis Lakers winning the NBA Championship, beating the Syracuse Nationals in 6 games in the NBA Finals .
[37] [357] The 2000–01 team set the NBA record for best playoff record at 15–1, which was later broken by the Golden State Warriors in 2017. [358] The 1971–72 team holds franchise records in wins (69), most points scored, and largest margin of victory; both of the latter came in the team's 63 point win versus Golden State (162–99). [ 359 ]