1954 – 55: With the NBA struggling financially and down to just 8 teams Nationals owner Danny Biasone suggested the league limit the amount of time taken for a shot thus speeding up a game that often ended with long periods of teams just holding the ball and playing keep away.

The shot clock would receive near-universal praise for its role in improving the style of play in the NBA: Bob Cousy, a well-known clock killer, stated, " I think shot clock saved the NBA ;" coach and referee Charley Eckman said " Danny Biasone saved the NBA with the 24-second rule ;" and league president Maurice Podoloff called the adoption of the shot clock " the most important event in the NBA.

Daniel Biasone ( February 22, 1909 – May 25, 1992 ) was the founding owner of the Syracuse Nationals, an NBA team now known as the Philadelphia 76ers.

Biasone successfully lobbied the NBA to institute the shot clock in 1954.

That overtime loss on March 26 would prove to be the last game for the Syracuse Nationals, as investors Irv Kosloff and Ike Richman purchased the team from Danny Biasone moving the team to Philadelphia to become the 76ers, filling the void left by the Warriors.

Biasone, who was a childhood immigrant to the United States from Italy, was mostly known for advocating the use of the shot clock in basketball.

Biasone was posthumously inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000 for his contributions to the sport.

In 1946, Danny Biasone sent a $ 5, 000 check to the National Basketball League offices in Chicago, and the Syracuse Nationals became the largely Midwest-based league's easternmost team.

Paper magnate Irv Kosloff bought the Nationals from Danny Biasone and moved them to Philadelphia in 1963.

1946 / 47: Owned by Italian immigrant Danny Biasone, the Syracuse Nationals began play in the National Basketball League, in the same year professional basketball was finally gaining some legitimacy with the rival Basketball Association of America that was based in large cities like New York and Philadelphia.

The shot clock first came to use in 1954 in Syracuse, New York, where Syracuse Nationals owner Danny Biasone experimented using a 24-second version during a scrimmage game.

Biasone calculated a 24-second shot clock would allow at least 30 shots per quarter speeding up the game and increasing scoring.

According to Biasone, " I looked at the box scores from the games I enjoyed, games where they didn't screw around and stall.

Biasone asserted that basketball proved most exciting when it achieved a balance between stalling contests and wild shootouts.

Given that professional basketball games lasted forty-eight minutes, Biasone divided 2880 ( the number of seconds in forty-eight minutes ) by 120 ( the total number of shots taken per game when each team attempted sixty shots ) and arrived at a figure he considered optimal: one shot every 24 seconds.

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* Payipwāt ( or Piapot: " who Knows the Secrets of the Sioux "), also known as " Hole in the Sioux " or Kisikawasan-‘ Flash in the Sky ’, Chief of the Cree-Assiniboine or the Young Dogs with great influence on neighboring Assiniboine, Downstream People, southern groups of the Upstream People and Saulteaux ( Plains Ojibwa ), born 1816, kidnapped as a child by the Sioux, he was freed about 1830 by Plains Cree, significant Shaman, most influential chief of the feared Young Dogs, convinced the Plains Cree to expand west in the Cypress Hills, the last refugee for bison groups, therefore disputed border area between Sioux, Assiniboine, Siksika Kainai and Cree, refused to participate in the raid on a Kainai camp near the present Lethbridge, Alberta, then the Young Dogs and their allies were content with the eastern Cypress Hills to the Milk River, Montana, does not participate at the negotiations on the Treaty 4 of 1874, he and Cheekuk, the most important chief of the Plains Ojibwa in the Qu ' Appelle area, signed on 9 September 1875 the treaty only as preliminary contract, tried with the chiefs of the River Cree Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Mistahi-maskwa (" Big Bear ") to erect a kind of Indian Territory for all the Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwa and Assiniboine-as Ottawa refused, he asked 1879-80 along with Kiwisünce ( cowessess-' Little Child ') and the Assiniboine for adjacent reserves in the Cypress Hills, Payipwāt settled in a reserve about 37 miles northeast of Fort Walsh, Minahikosis (" Little Pine ") and Papewes (‘ Lucky Man ’) asked successfully for reserves near the Assiniboine or Payipwāt-this allowed the Cree and Assiniboine to preserve their autonomy-because they went 1881 in Montana on bison hunting, stole Absarokee horses and alleged cattle killed, arrested the U. S. Army the Cree-Assiniboine group, disarmed and escorted them back to Canada-now unarmed, denied rations until the Cree and Assiniboine gave up their claims to the Cypress Hills and went north-in the following years the reserves changed several times and the tribes were trying repeated until to the Northwest Rebellion in 1885 to build an Indian Territory, Payipwāt remained under heavy guard, until his death he was a great spiritual leader, therefore Ottawa deposed Payipwāt on 15 April 1902 as chief, died in April 1908 on Piapot Reserve, Saskatchewan )

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The NBA landed the most important college star of the era, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( then known as Lew Alcindor ).

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The Pistons then won Game 5 in The Palace of Auburn Hills, but the Heat answered by winning Game 6 and advanced to their first NBA Finals in franchise history against Dirk Nowitzki's Dallas Mavericks, who were also in their first NBA Finals.

Philadelphia selected Charles Smith with its first pick in the 1988 NBA Draft, then traded his rights to the Los Angeles Clippers for their first pick, Hersey Hawkins.

The Bulls then easily won Game 5 in Detroit, and had a chance to make NBA history.

DeBusschere became the key player that then led the Knicks to two NBA titles.

Detroit then defeated the Indiana Pacers, coached by Rick Carlisle, in six tough games to advance to the NBA Finals for the first time since 1990.

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The Rockets lost 67 games in their inaugural season, which was then an NBA record for losses in a season.

The Timberwolves were then used as the poster child of irresponsible spending as the NBA endured a 4-month lockout that wiped out much of the season.

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Brown moved on to the ABA and coached with the Carolina Cougars and then the Denver Nuggets, who later joined the NBA in 1976, for five and a half seasons from 1974 to 1979.

In an interview shortly before his death, he explained that since the 1950s, Chinese takeout was the most convenient nutrition: back then, NBA teams travelled on regular flights and had a tight time schedule, so filling up the stomach with heavier non-Chinese food meant wasting time and risking travel-sickness.