The Basketball Association of America came from a league in North America, 1946; being one out of three professional basketball organizations. The Basketball Association of America (BAA) and another basketball organization, National Basketball League (NBL), formed together to become the National Basketball Association (NBA). Surprisingly, they came together after being big rivals, and fighting for three years over who gets the better players and the most fans to watch the action and most likely to see how much profit they can make from the basketball games. The teams wanted to bring together a more professional, established basketball league. On August 3, 1949, the National Basketball Association was officially formed.
As of today, there are six teams in the NBA that originated from the BAA. The NBA claims the BAA as its own basketball organization. The NBA games were first being held in ice hockey arenas because the owner wanted to give the arena more attraction while it was empty on nights ice hockey games weren’t being played. While the NBA, (originally the Basketball Association of America) was formed in 1946 by owner of ice hockey arenas, today the NBA is the most important professional basketball organization both in the United States and internationally. There are given reasons on how the media and technology changed the way we view sports, how the National Basketball Association became so popular in the United States and internationally, and why the NBA is the most succeed basketball association in today's society.
The media and technology have impacted a huge part on the way people view sports. Technology hasn’t only transformed the way of interacting with sports from the past ten to fifteen years. Not only has techn...
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The National Basketball Association no longer holds the prominence that it once had. In the aftermath of the lockout that took away half of the 1998-99 season, the National Basketball Association finds itself looking into an uncertain future. Appearing similar to the state of the league during the mid 1980's, the NBA finds itself with a tarnished image and no icon's to build the league around. With the retirement of Michael Jordan and the number of superstars in which the league built its popularity on during the 1990's getting smaller, the National Basketball Association sits in limbo while it searches for its new identity.
Despite the vast popularity of basketball, there is only one major league in America: The National Basketball Association, to be referred to in this work as the NBA. The NBA was created in 1946, and in 1976 it merged with the ABA to become the premier league in America. The League has expanded over the years and now consists of 29 teams in the United States and one team in Canada, with each team playing 82 games per season
Backstory of Basketball Basketball has been played since 1891, and still continues to be played today as well. Basketball is an intriguing game played by 2 teams with 5 players from each team on the court at the same time. Basketball, as it started out in 1891 had no African American athletes in the sport. That was still going on, even as late as the 1950’s.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the most famous men's professional basketball league in North America, and is widely considered to be the best professional basketball league in the world. It has thirty franchised member clubs (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The league was founded in New York City on June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America. The league adopted the name National Basketball Association on August 3, 1949, after absorbing the rival National Basketball League (NBL). The NBA is one of the four major North American professional sports leagues (National Basketball Association) NBA players are the world's best paid sportsmen, by average annual salary per player (Nick Harris, Global Sports Salaries Survey 2012: The Richest Teams by Average First-team Pay).
On August 3, 1949 the National Basketball League (NBL) was dissolved into the Basketball Association of American (BAA), which was started in 1946 to create the National Basketball Association. Through the merger of the two leagues into the NBA there were now 18 teams that were eventually dwindled down to eight teams. The original eight are sti...
The ABL reformed, “in 1933, and the National Basketball League (NBL) formed in 1937 from 13 Midwest Industrial League teams” (Carnagie).... ... middle of paper ... ... Many professional leagues collapsed, like the ABL.
Basketball has been around for a long while. It was first established in 1891 by James Naismith. James Naismith was once the basketball coach at Kansas University. When he invented the sport he used a peach basket as the goal. When it first originated every time they would score they’d be required to call the janitor out with a ladder to get the ball down. After a few months they cut the bottoms of the basket out.
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On November 6, 1861 the great James Naismith was born in Ontario, Canada to Mr. and Mrs. John and Margaret Naismith. As a child James wasn’t very successful in school but excelled in physical activates, this triggered him to drop out of school and become a lumberjack. Soon after this he realized that he needed to turn his life around, so he went back to school to receive a degree in physical education. He later earned a job at a local YMCA in Springfield and was immediately put in task of finding a way to keep men in shape during the winter seasons. After many unsuccessful attempts he finally decided on a sport in which the players must throw a soccer ball into a peach basket on either side of the gymnasium. So on December 21, 1891 the newly formed game known as basketball had its first official game, the final score 1-0. As time passed different basketball leagues were formed the Basketball Association of America was founded in 1946 by owners of the major ice hockey arenas in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Canada. In 1949 the BAA joined another basketball league, the NBL, to create the currant league, the NBA. The NBA was a great success with many people. This success would led it to what it is today, a multi-billion dollar association known for consisting in a wide variety of elite athletes.
The formation of the National Basketball Association (NBA) was created on August 3, 1949. This was due to the merger of the National Basketball League (NBL) and the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The NBA teams actually played against the American Basketball Association (ABA) for nine years until the ABA folded. Four teams from the ABA are actually part of the NBA today- Indiana, Denver, New York, and San Antonio. The NBA began to become a widely popular league and is known for having some of the best players known today. Eventually, in 1996 the NBA formed the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) with 8 teams making it still a fairly new league today. An African American woman named Sheryl Swoopes was the first woman ever signed to play in the WNBA. Their first game wasn’t played until 1997 with the New York Liberty playing the Los Angeles Sparks. A team was made in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2003 giving the NBA a total of 30 active teams, while the WNBA has a total of 12
The NBA licenses rights for broadcasting and collects revenue from sponsorships with corporate partners. It also operates the WNBA, a women's professional basketball league; the NBA Development League for players who are preparing for the NBA; and NBA TV, a cable TV channel offering news, original programming, and live game broadcasts. The NBA was established as the Basketball Association of America in 1946. 2. What is the difference between a'smar SWOT Analysis of the NBA Strengths Large pool of resources and capital.
On August 3, 1949 the league adopted the name National Basketball Association (NBA). The leagues several international as well as individual team offices are directed out of its head which are located in the Olympic Tower at 645 Fifth Avenue in New York City. In 1996, the National Basketball Association created a women’s league, the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA). In 1998, the National Basketball Association owners began a lockout which lasted 191 days and was settled on January 18, 1999. This season 1998-1999 was reduced from 82-50 games.
Before social media, fans and those alike turned to newspaper, talk radio, and television to get statistics, scores, and bland interaction from coaches and players. Sports communication began in the 1920’s, the “Golden Age of Sport”. (Hancherick, 2011). Several developments fueled ...
Different studies and analysis opens up many of the inner dimensions of the experience of sports and media. Understanding sports, media, and spectacle reveals both details and generalizations about our culture and our general humanity.
Although many sports are not considered American-made, basketball is one of the few that began in America. In fact it is the only major sport that can be considered American-made (Encyclopedia.com, Basketball). The inventor of basketball was Dr. James Naismith, who created the sport in 1891(History.com Staff, NBA is Born). This was all the way back when there were only forty-four states(nbahoopsonline.com, NBA History). He made the sport in Springfield, Massachusetts(History.com Staff, NBA is Born). Naismith invented this sport because he was P.E. teacher seeking a sport with limited physical contact, but it contained running, jumping, shooting, and hand-eye coordination(Encyclopedia.com, Basketball). The game first used peach baskets and a soccer like ball(History.com Staff,