At the time of his retirement, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA ’ s all-time leader in points scored, games played, minutes played, field goals made, field goal attempts, blocked shots, defensive rebounds, and personal fouls.

At the end of that season, the Celtics and the Lakers renewed their rivalry from 2008 when they met again in the NBA Finals for a record 12th time.

At the start of the 1997 season, the WNBA had television deals in place with NBC ( NBA rights holder ), and the Walt Disney Company and Hearst Corporation joint venture channels, ESPN and Lifetime Television Network, respectively.

At the NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix, Arizona, Heat player Harold Miner repeated as the winner of the NBA Slam Dunk Contest and Glen Rice won the NBA Three Point Shootout.

At the end of March 2008, the Heat posted the third-lowest point total in the history of the NBA during the shot clock era during a 96 – 54 loss to the Toronto Raptors on March 19, followed by a new record for the fewest made baskets with seventeen, in another lost game against the Boston Celtics on March 30.

At the NBA China Games, the Magic swept the three games in China, twice against the Cleveland Cavaliers and once against the Chinese national team in games held in Shanghai and in Macau.

At the end of the 2011 – 12 NBA season, the Hornets had the worst record in the West, 21 – 45.

At one point DeBusschere was the youngest player-coach in the history of the NBA.

At the 1980 NBA All-Star Game, league owners voted to admit the new team, with the team's name coming from the 1957 – 1962 TV western Maverick.

) At the end of the season, English won the NBA scoring title, becoming the only nugget to win the award despite the heavily-favored offensive play of Doug Moe.

At times throughout the season the Spurs wear a jersey that says " Los Spurs " in homage to the Latino population that enjoys the NBA as well.

At the Lakers ' championship celebration in Los Angeles, coach Riley brashly declared that Los Angeles would repeat as NBA champions.

At the season's end the Wake Forest star was rumored to enter the 1996 NBA Draft, but in the end, he stayed in college.

At the same time the ABL was being formed, the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) was creating the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

At tall, Bradley was one of the tallest players in NBA history.

At the time, the phrase was being used by members and fans of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, of whom Riley was the head coach, regarding the Lakers ' quest that season to obtain what would have been a third successive NBA championship.

At the time, he was leading the NBA in assists per game.

At his 2008 induction into the NBA Hall of Fame, he ended his speech with a quote from the Springsteen song, " Back in Your Arms Again ".

In an early 1990s episode of Married ... with Children, light mockery was made at Ainge's expense: At a fictional All-Star basketball game attended by the Bundy family, the public announcer said Ladies and gentlemen, here are your NBA All Stars and Danny Ainge !.

At 7 ft 7 in ( 2. 31 m ), he is one of the tallest players in NBA history, along with Sudanese player Manute Bol, who was also 7 ft 7 in.

At the same time, he ended a streak of having played the most number of games in NBA history without participating in the post-season.

At the conclusion of the 2010 – 11 NBA season, 23 % of NBA players had spent time in the NBA D-League.

At the end, when he notices a map of the Mortmain Mountains in Madame Lulu's tent, Olaf makes reference to a coded stain spilt on the Valley of Four Drafts, stating that he was taught to use such stains to mark secret locations when he was a young boy.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world.

At its most recent meeting, November 27 – December 1, 2006, the Conference of the Parties of the Basel Agreement focused on issues of electronic waste and the dismantling of ships.

At the same time there was from the latter part of the 18th century an increased interest in depicting in the form of history painting moments of drama from recent or contemporary history, which had long largely been confined to battle-scenes and scenes of formal surrenders and the like.

At the time it was mentioned " Brown has also branched out into real estate and music publishing in recent months ".

He has appeared in thirteen episodes since the show's inception in 1989, the most recent being " At Long Last Leave " that aired in February 2012, in which his character makes a cameo speaking appearance.

At the other end of the spectrum, there are numerous fairly recent popular books, and thousands of private websites, suggesting not only that the Prophecies are genuine but that Nostradamus was a true prophet.

At first William was seen as a moderate ruler, whose friendship with liberal Britain was symbolised by the recent marriage of his son ( the future Frederick III ) to Queen Victoria's eldest daughter ; their son ( the future William II ) was born in 1859.

At the front of each bed lie the stumps of stone pillars that may have supported a canopy of fur ; another link with recent Hebridean style.

At the same time there has been a tendency to bring the origins of the Pentateuch further forward in time, and the most recent proposals place it in 5th century Judah under the Persian empire.

At the time of first European contact, it has been estimated the existing population was at least 350, 000, while recent archaeological finds suggest that a population of 750, 000 could have been sustained.

At the time the film was a commercial rather than a critical success, and has only come to be viewed more favorably in recent times.

At its height during the most recent ice age, the lake may have been deep.

Ebert's most recent show, Ebert Presents: At the Movies, premiered on January 21, 2011, with Ebert contributing a review voiced by someone else in a brief segment called " Roger's Office ".

At the latter festivals, he appears as " Pierrot Grenade ", a descendant of his namesake, but dressed — at least in recent years — in narrow over-lapping strips of brightly colored cloth.

At first, β-lactam antibiotics were mainly active only against Gram-positive bacteria, yet the recent development of broad-spectrum β-lactam antibiotics active against various Gram-negative organisms has increased their usefulness.

At least in more recent centuries, trade was often highly standardized, with the drying and packing of opium in standard chests, for example.

At 233 MHz this CPU drew only one watt ( more recent versions draw far less ).

At the time, the earth was going through its most recent ice age and the climate of the area was much different than it is now ; it was similar to that of Great Britain today.

" At the time of the interview, Hitchcock's most recent work was Marnie.

The subsequent report on Gardner read: " Here signs of recent habitation were clearly visible but repeated circling and zooming failed to elicit any answering wave from possible inhabitants and it was finally taken for granted that none were there ... At the western end of the island a tramp steamer ( of about 4000 tons )... lay high and almost dry head onto the coral beach with her back broken in two places.

At the start of World War I strategy was dominated by the offensive thinking that had been in vogue since 1870, despite the more recent experiences of the Second Boer War ( 1899 – 1902 ) and Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 05 ), where the machine gun demonstrated its defensive capabilities.

At least two biographies of Yell have been written, the most recent published by the University of Arkansas Press in Fayetteville.

At least one other recent Lincoln Rector, Sir Maurice Shock, enjoyed a prior career in British intelligence, although there is little evidence to substantiate the college's reputation as a recruiting ground for spies.

At the Board's meeting on June 16, 2008, city attorney David Youngblood discussed the legal issues surrounding the recent events.