Greg Haskell's Adult Ed

WEEK 3
The Early Years of Professional Basketball

) The formation of the NBA Date: August 3, 1949 Place: New York City, NY The story behind the event: The National Basketball League (NBL) formed in 1937, and the Basketball Association of America (BAA) formed in 1946. But the two officially combined on August 3, 1949 to form the NBA, the most important and largest group in the history of basketball. By the way, the only two teams from the initial league that have remained in the same city and under the same name are the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks.

Read the following for a little more detail and a better grasp of how professional basketball has evolved over the past 100 yrs.

By now you should have a feel for the primitive, yet fun and exciting development of professional basketball.
The college game and semi pro barnstorming teams like the Harlem Globetrotters paved the way for the NBA, which
had its inaugural season in 1946 (BAA) and in 1949 the NBA. Please take a look at the following web site and
reflect on the growth of the pro game in those early years.

Build a Power Point (Worth 75 pts)
Go online and conduct some research on one of the 5 basketball stories mentioned.
Then make a eight slide power point presentation that tells the story of that event.