The history of the NBA is filled with championships, legendary performances, unforgettable rivalries and players who changed basketball forever. But not every chapter has been worth celebrating. Since the league’s earliest years, professional basketball has also endured gambling scandals, premature deaths, devastating injuries, violence, labor disputes, controversial ownership, franchise relocations …
Former NBA players Royce White and Enes Kanter Freedom have found a new way to put themselves back into the basketball conversation: announcing plans to enter the 2027 WNBA Draft. Neither announcement should be confused with the ordinary situation of a transgender athlete seeking to participate in sports consistent with …
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History of the Oshkosh All-Stars The Oshkosh All-Stars were one of the most successful and historically important professional basketball teams of the pre-NBA era. Based in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, the club was founded in 1929 and developed from an independent barnstorming team into one of the dominant organizations of the National …
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a professional basketball league that operated from 1967 to 1976 and became the most important rival the NBA has ever faced. Although the ABA survived for only nine seasons, its influence on professional basketball was enormous. The league popularized the three-point shot, introduced the …
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The Kentucky Colonels were one of the most successful and recognizable franchises in the history of the American Basketball Association. Based in Louisville, the Colonels competed during all nine seasons of the ABA, from 1967-68 through 1975-76. They won 448 regular-season games, reached the playoffs every year, appeared in the …
Memphis Grizzlies History The Memphis Grizzlies have evolved from one of the NBA’s newest and least successful expansion franchises into one of the league’s most respected organizations. From their beginnings as the Vancouver Grizzlies to the celebrated “Grit and Grind” era and the emergence of a new generation led by …
The Miami Heat have grown from an NBA expansion franchise into one of the league’s model organizations. Since entering the NBA in 1988, the Heat have won multiple championships, developed Hall of Fame talent, and built a culture centered on discipline, hard work, and winning. Under longtime team president Pat …
Basketball has a long and storied past. The game we know today as basketball was invented on December 21, 1981, by Dr. James Naismith, while he was teaching at Springfield College in Springfield, MA. But Naismith’s game was not the first game in history where the goal was to get …
After the struggles of the 2020-2021 team in Tokyo, and the Olympics being in France, it looked like Team USA was finally not going to win the gold. The French had new NBA superstar Victor Wembanyama, NBA defensive player of the team Rudy Gobert, and a host of former NBA …
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No team in American basketball Olympic history is as polarizing as the 2020, or should I say 2021 team. The team struggled and faced adversity like none other, and had the worst start of any team in American history yet found itself late for Olympic glory. Some of Team USA’s …
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