In the 1949-195 season, after BAA annexed NBL and "unified the six countries", it started a new season with 17 teams, and officially changed its name to NBA-- NATIONALBASKETBALL ASSOCIATION. In 1952, when the road was blocked, the NBA released the 24-second system, which greatly improved the appreciation and scoring rate of the game.
when BAA entered its first season, a star named Joe fulks appeared. Fulks is 1.69 meters tall and comes from the University of Kentucky. At that time, in an era when it was difficult to score more than 8 points in a game, Fulks made outstanding achievements. He was the only player who scored more than 17 points per game in the season, with an average score of 23.2 points per game. Despite Fulks' outstanding performance, he still lacks a national star. Moreover, BAA has also encountered a series of troubles. At the beginning of the second season, there were only seven teams left in BAA. Although a new team was formed in Baltimore to join BAA, making BAA reach eight teams, no one can say for sure whether this professional basketball league can survive in the United States centered on college basketball. Secondly, six of the eight teams are from the east, and they practice regional protectionism and are not very friendly to teams from other regions.
BAA suffered heavy losses in the first two seasons. Not only lost four teams, but also the size of the league dropped sharply from 6 games to 48 games, and the ticket revenue decreased accordingly. The reduction of the game also affected the expansion of new teams in the league. In a dilemma, BAA President PuDollof decided to implement his first plan of annexing NBL, and poached NBL star George McCann. Because this giant with a height of 2.8 meters was the "cash cow" of the basketball court at that time. George McCann was famous in college, but he chose NBL when he graduated from college in 1946. In order to get this key figure, Pu Dollof resisted the pressure of "aristocrats" in BAA, and decided to accept all teams, rich or poor, big or small, as long as they were willing to join BAA, in order to lure the Minneapolis Lakers who owned McCann. The effort to win McCann actually turned into a bigger expansion plan in the implementation process. Dollof, who is skilled in diplomacy, persuaded all parties concerned to "rebel" McCann and his four teams, namely Minneapolis Lakers, Westburg Nisai Team, Rochester Royal Team and Indianapolis Pacers, from NBL to BAA. In the following season of 1949-195, all the remaining six teams of NBL joined BAA, while the Providence Steam Engine Team, one of the founding teams of BAA, announced its dissolution. In the 1949-195 season, after the annexation of NBL, BAA changed its name to NBA, divided its 17 teams into three divisions, and began a new development course of American professional basketball. With his determination and foresight, Dollof became the president of the NBA, which made the NBA embark on a smooth road of steady development from a difficult entrepreneurial period. The NBA in the 195s was a "George Macon" era.
He and his Minneapolis Lakers won the BAA championship in the first season (1948-1949) when they joined BAA from NBL. In the six years from 1948 to 1954, except for the NBA championship in 195-1951, which was taken away by Rochester Royals, the other five times were won by the Lakers led by Macon. In the second half of 1954, with the retirement of George McCann, the championship position of the Lakers was replaced by the newly rising teams such as St. Louis, but the great "McCann era" remained in the history of NBA and people's hearts, because only George McCann could make the organizer (NBA) change the size of the 3-second zone and the height of the basket (from 3.5 meters to 3.66 meters) for him.
In the late 195s, when there was no reference selection data to judge a player's talent, Arnold Reid Auerbach, the coach of Boston Celtics, traded two excellent strikers, De Macaulay and Cliff Hagen, for Russell's draft pick with the St. Louis Hawks, and won the god pitcher Tom Heinsohn in the 1956 draft. It formed a strong lineup with Kusi Shaman as the main defender, Heinsohn as the main striker and Russell as the main center, and became an impeccable team in all positions. In 1957, it beat the St. Louis Hawks 4-3 and won the championship for the first time, which also accumulated strength and experience for the Celtics' glory in the 196s. It is worth mentioning that in 1958, the St. Louis Hawks increased their strength because of the tacit cooperation between Macaulay Hagen and superstar bob pettit. In the finals, they defeated the Celtics 4-2 to win the championship and got revenge for last year. However, such a thing has not happened again.
In p>1952, due to the lethargy of NBA games, the game tended to evolve into foul wars and free throw wars. Danny Biancson, the boss of Syracuse National Team, proposed a 24-second system to limit the time for athletes to hold the ball, that is, if the winning team didn't shoot within 24 seconds, it would lose the opportunity to control the ball by the other team. This system was tried out in the 1954-1955 season, and the average score of each team in the first season increased by 13.6 points to 93.1 points. Three years later, the average NBA score exceeded 1 points. At the same time, it is stipulated that the number of fouls in a game shall not exceed 6 times. If a team has fouled six times in a game, the corresponding free throws will be changed from two to three from the seventh foul. The formulation of these new rules has greatly improved the appreciation of the NBA.
The NBA in the 196s
The NBA in the 196s belonged to Reed auerbach and his Boston Celtics. They won an incredible "eight consecutive championships" from 1959 to 1966, and they won the championship twice in 1968 and 1969, writing down the history of the "green dynasty" NBA. At this time, in 1964, the NBA expanded the width of the restricted area to 6 feet, creating a new life space for basketball.
In the late 195s, coached by "Cardinal" Reed auerbach, the Boston Celtics had begun to show their king's demeanor. After the Celtics won the first NBA championship in their history in 1957, auerbach continued to play his "Bole" role, and selected a batch of fresh blood for the team: Frank Ramsey, Sam Jones, Tom Sanders and john havlicek. Together with Russell, Shaman, Cousy and Heindern, these players made the Celtics strong and started their golden age. Although elgin baylor, regarded as the most skillful scorer, settled in Minneapolis Lakers in 1958, wilt chamberlain joined Philadelphia Warriors in 1959 and oscar robertson came to Cincinnati in 196, the Boston Celtics were invincible in the NBA in the 196s.
from 1959 to 196, the Boston Celtics won eight NBA championships in a row. This incredible "eight consecutive championships" is the storm and waves set off by the Celtics, a "green dynasty", which is unparalleled in NBA history. In these eight seasons, the Celtics won an average of 57.6 games in the regular season every season, and never lost more than 26 games. In the 1959 finals, the Celtics beat the Minneapolis Lakers 4-. In 196, they beat the St. Louis Hawks 122-13 in the seventh game of the finals. After a year, he dropped the St. Louis Hawks again with a score of 4:1. In the seventh game of the 1962 finals, they beat the Los Angeles Lakers (the original Minneapolis Lakers) by 11:17. In fact, once they entered the semi-finals, the Celtics became extremely strong. In the 1963-1964 season, the Cincinnati Royal Team led by Robertson, who was also in the Eastern District, achieved an impressive record of 55 wins in the regular season, only four games less than the Celtics. In the Eastern Conference semi-final, it was defeated by 1:4, with an average loss of 13 points per game. In 1964-1965, the Boston Celtics still won the championship. However, in the following two years, he fought very hard on the road to winning the championship, which really benefited from auerbach's foresight. In that year's regular season, the Philadelphia 76ers, with their talents Chamberlain and Cunningham, had the strength to compete with Boston. They won one more game than the Celtics and won the first place in the Eastern Conference, forcing the Celtics to fight with the Cincinnati Royal in the first round of the semi-finals, while they took advantage of it. This is also the first time in 1 years that the Celtics entered the semi-finals as the second place instead of the Eastern Conference champion. Boston and Cincinnati played five games before they won hard. In the Eastern Conference finals, he played against the Philadelphia 76ers and swept the 76ers who lost their morale 4-1, reaching the finals. In the finals, the Celtics and the old rival Los Angeles Lakers also played hard, losing at home in the first game. Since then, auerbach, who will retire in the 1966 playoffs, suddenly announced that Russell would take his place in the 1966-1967 season and become the first black coach in NBA history. After that, the Celtics' morale was greatly boosted and they won three games in a row. In the end, they defeated the Lakers 4-3 and completed their eight consecutive championships. In the 1966-1967 season, as auerbach stepped onto the Celtics' administrative management, the players became "aging", and the once-mighty Boston Celtics were finally pulled down by the Philadelphia 76ers. By the 1968 -1969 season, the average age of the team had reached 31 years old, among which Sam Jones was nearly 36 years old, and Russell, a player and coach, was 35 years old, and the situation was even more severe. Facing the rise of Baltimore Bullets, Philadelphia 76ers and new york Knicks, new stars such as westley unseld, Willy Slade, Walter Fraser, Bill bradley and Dick Banat emerged. Although Celtic won the NBA championship in 1968-1969, the team became weak, and the end of the giant era has become an indisputable reality. Although the "green dynasty" declined. But bill russell was the most dazzling star at that time. He won the most championship rings in the NBA, with 11 * * *.
In terms of competition system, in 1964, because of the existence of another super giant, Chamberlain, the NBA forced to expand the width of the restricted area to 16 feet. Before the war, in 1952, in order to deal with the giant McCann, the NBA expanded the width of the 3-second zone from 6 feet to 12 feet. Because the basketball court is small, the players are tall and burly. The center's next stop at the basket made the restricted area crowded. The sudden opening of the 3-second zone has made the NBA truly complete the transition from low altitude to "high altitude".
NBA in the 197s
The NBA in the 197s went on TV in 1973, and the broadcasting rights were sold by CBS for three years. In 1976, it swallowed ABA and expanded its strength. On the field, change the situation that one team dominated the championship in the 196 s. A hundred schools of thought began to contend, and eight teams successively won the championship. At the same time, the NBA in the 197s was also an era of changing guards.
in the 197s, the NBA achieved two great things on its development path. The first big thing is that the NBA is on TV. Among the four professional sports of ice hockey, rugby, baseball and basketball, basketball has the smallest field, but the biggest ball, which is destined to belong to TV. In the 197s, with the popularity of television in American families, in 1973, CBS bought the right to broadcast NBA games for three years for $27 million. At that time, although there was no live broadcast, only videos could be played, but for the NBA, it was the beginning of entering people's families and moving towards the world. The second important thing that NBA accomplished was that after nearly ten years of competition with another American professional basketball league -ABA (AMERICAN BASKETBALL ASSCCIATON), it was finally put into its own track in 1976. ABA was founded on February 2, 1967, and its appearance is a bit like a group of children's fun games. At the beginning of its establishment, in order to increase the popularity of the league, ABA specially hired George McCann, a famous NBA center 2 years ago, as its president. McCann's unique feeling of basketball is beyond others' reach. He competes with the conservative NBA with an open league stance. The first thing McCann did when he took office was to change the brown basketball into a red, white and blue ball. As a striking symbol of the new alliance. At the same time, open the door to all who can play basketball, especially those who have not graduated from college. This move puts pressure on the NBA, which used to disdain ABA. Because at that time, the NBA stipulated that only players who had entered the university for four years were eligible to join the NBA League. In order to increase the excitement of the game. ABA adopted the three-point rule and the dunk game in the All-Star Game. At that time, ABA competition was characterized by many fast breaks, many passes, three-pointers and dunks in various ways. As long as you can do it, you can give full play to it. These attracted Dr. J Owen, Super Spring Leg David Thompson, Iceman George Gwen and moses malone, and ABA became popular in the United States together with its tricolor ball.
In the struggle between p>ABA and NBA, the number of legal cases caused by the competition for college players and the mutual job-hopping of players from both sides has increased sharply. After nine years of confrontation, both sides were overwhelmed by the contract price raised by competition. In addition, ABA itself was not well managed internally, and the economy was sluggish. By 1976, it was almost impossible to sustain itself, but the NBA had grown to 18 teams. So the presidents of both sides, Debs Gar (ABA) and O 'Brien (the third president of NBA), negotiated, and the NBA annexed ABA in the name of merger, and accepted three of them, namely, the Pacers, Denver nuggets and Ma. After the formation of a large-scale basketball market, the NBA also absorbed the essence from ABA, and began to pay attention to appreciation, no longer excluding dunks, and began to implement a three-point system in 1979. It can be said that without ABA, there would not be such a wonderful NBA game today.
the NBA battlefield in the 197s was an unprecedented situation in which a hundred schools of thought contended and a hundred flowers blossomed. In 197, the new york Knicks, led by Willis Reid, won their first NBA championship, and then reigned in 1973. During the 197-1971 season, the Milwaukee Bucks won the NBA championship with their generation of superstar Jabbar who won the first round draft with the Phoenix Suns in the 1969 NBA draft, and oscar robertson who was transferred from Cincinnati Royals.