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National Basketball Association
Homepage: http://www.nba.com/
Rules and regulations: http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules_index.html
History:
Conceivably every amateur basketball
player’s dream ticket to national and international
recognition is by making it to the National Basketball
Association (NBA). Founded in New York City on
June 6, 1946 as the Basketball Association of
America, the league changed its name to NBA in
1949 after adopting more teams from rival National
Basketball League.
Now, NBA is known as the premier
basketball league in North America. Basketball
greats Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird, Clyde
Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Magic Johnson, and Michael
Jordan all trace their success and worldwide recognition
to NBA – the league that has always been
known to set the “overall standard of the
competition is considerably higher than any other
professional competition.”
Aside from producing superstars,
the NBA is also known for promoting equality in
the sport - being the first professional sports
league to appoint a black head coach in 1966;
the first to have a black general manager in 1972,
and the first black majority owner in 2002. With
only 11 founding teams in 1946, the NBA has had
44 total franchises so far, 30 of which are active.
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