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The NBA San Antonio Spurs mascot is " The Coyote ", as well.
* In the video game NBA 2K12, " Basketball " is used in the opening video and is also part of the game's soundtrack.
He is the NBA ’ s all-time leading scorer, with 38, 387 points.
He is TNT's lead NBA voice, calls NFL games for CBS, and also calls NCAA tournament action for CBS and Turner Sports.
His son Kenny Albert also began to work as a part-time play-by-play announcer for the Knicks since 2009, whenever the older Albert's successor Mike Breen ( whom he later followed on the NBA on NBC broadcasts and now works on ESPN and ABC aside from his role at MSG ) is unavailable.
His daughter, Denise, is a reporter for NBA TV.
* 1991 – Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
The National Basketball Association ( NBA ) is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America.
With thirty franchised member clubs ( 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada ), the NBA is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world.
The NBA is one of the four major North American professional sports leagues.
Although Japanese-American Wataru Misaka technically broke the NBA color barrier in the 1947 – 48 season when he played for the New York Knicks, 1950 is recognized as the year the NBA integrated.
This championship streak is the longest in NBA history.
* The last week in October is the only time of the year when all four major North American Sports league schedule games-the NBA generally starts in that last week while the MLB postseason is just ending.
Hasheem Thabeet is a Tanzanian-born NBA player with the Oklahoma City Thunder.
He is the first Tanzanian to play in the NBA.
Today, the anthem is performed before the beginning of all MLS, NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL games ( when at least one American team is playing ), as well as in a pre-race ceremony portion of every NASCAR and AMA motocross race.
Omaha is the birthplace of numerous important historical and modern sports figures, including 1960 Summer Olympics gold medalist and NBA star Bob Boozer ; Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Gibson ; 1989 American League Rookie of the Year Gregg Olson ; NFL running back Ahman Green ; Heisman Trophy winners Johnny Rodgers and Eric Crouch ; Pro Football Hall of Famer Gale Sayers ; and champion tennis player Andy Roddick.
If each scanline has its own layer, the Pole Position effect is produced, which creates a pseudo-3D road ( or a pseudo-3D ball court as in NBA Jam ) on a 2D system.
In general, players of lower academic standing than specified can compete ; there is a debate about how much more experienced players should be involved ( analogous to the hypothetical question of whether NBA players should be able to play college games, or even high school games ).
In addition to those three teams, the Chicago Sky is the only other team that does not share an arena with an NBA counterpart.
This independent ownership is important to the WNBA's growth ; at one time, all teams in the league were owned by the NBA.

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There are only a few professional cheerleading leagues around the world ; some professional leagues include the NBA Cheerleading League, the NFL Cheerleading League, the CFL Cheerleading League, the MLS Cheerleading League, the MLB Cheerleading League, and the NHL Ice Dancers.
Unlike in basketball, where players are allowed to commit only 5 fouls in a game ( 6 in the NBA ), handball players are allowed an unlimited number of faults, which are considered good defense and disruptive to the attacking team's rhythm.
In 2001, the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to Memphis, which left the Raptors as the only Canadian team in the NBA.
The San Antonio Spurs won their first championship, and first by a former ABA team, by beating the New York Knicks, who were the first, and to this date, the only, eighth seed to ever make the NBA Finals.
Since their last Cup win in 1983, they are currently the only team of the four major North American sports leagues ( NHL, NFL, NBA, & MLB ) to win 4 consecutive championships, and hold the NHL record for most consecutive playoff series ' wins at 19 ( 1980 Playoffs-1984 Playoffs ).
The Connecticut Sun, Seattle Storm, and Tulsa Shock are the only current teams to play without sharing the market with an NBA team ( although the Storm shared a market with the Seattle SuperSonics before that team's relocation ).
While not the first major women's professional basketball league in the United States ( a distinction held by the defunct WBL ), the WNBA is the only league to receive full backing of the NBA.
They became only the third team in NBA history to win the final series after being down 0 – 2, following the 1969 Boston Celtics and the 1977 Portland Trail Blazers.
O ' Neal also proclaimed during the Championship parade that they would win the NBA repeat, later clarifying this promise applied only if Wade were present and healthy for the ride through the playoffs.
Despite barely missing the playoffs and receiving the least chance of gaining the top draft pick with only one ball in the lottery, the Magic won the first pick in the 1993 NBA Draft Lottery.
The Magic were also the only NBA team to wear black sneakers and socks in all their games, a tradition that began upon the hiring of Stan Van Gundy in 2007 ; however they wore white sneakers and socks at home in all of the 2008 – 09 season and early in the 2009 – 10 season before switching back to black sneakers and socks.
Nonetheless, their 12 – 1 playoff record is the second-best in league history after the 2000 – 2001 Lakers, who went 15 – 1 en route to the NBA Title, coincidentally beating the 76ers in the Finals ( after suffering their only defeat that postseason in Game 1 ).
In fact, Wright would only play four seasons in the NBA while Temple product Eddie Jones — drafted 4 slots below Wright in 1994 by the L. A. Lakers — had 16 productive seasons as an NBA player.
This was only the fifth time in NBA history that an eight seed has beaten a one seed.
The team moved again in 1955 to St. Louis, Missouri, where they won their only NBA Championship title in 1958.
Some critics doubted that Charlotte could support an NBA team ; one Sacramento Bee columnist joked, " The only franchise Charlotte is going to get is one with golden arches.
Of the cities in the running, only St. Louis was a larger media market than Charlotte at the time ; also, it was the only one of the four to have previously had an NBA franchise — the St. Louis Hawks, who moved to Atlanta in 1968.
The Bulls won an NBA record-72 games during the 1995 – 96 NBA season and are the only team in NBA history to win 70 games or more in a single season.
In the early 2000s, the Pistons appeared in six consecutive NBA Eastern Conference Finals, but only won twice.

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Within two years RotoNews had become one of the top ten most trafficked sports sites on the web, according to Media Metrix, ranking higher than such sites as NBA. com.
The NBA expanded rapidly during this period, one purpose being to tie up the most viable cities.
Also in the early ' 80s, the NBA added one more expansion franchise, the Dallas Mavericks, bringing the total to 23 teams.
Before the start of the 2010 – 11 season the NBA had an exciting summer with one of the most anticipated free agent classes of all time.
* American basketball player Michael Jordan bursts onto the scene in the NBA during the 1980s, bringing a surge in popularity for the sport and becoming one of the most beloved sports icons in the United States.
Along with the Orlando Magic, the Heat are one of the two NBA franchises that represent the state of Florida.
The rough playing led to fierce competition throughout the series, sparking the beginning of one of the most vicious rivalries in NBA history.
The Knicks had pulled off one of the greatest upsets in NBA history, becoming just the second # 8 seed to knock off a # 1 seed in the playoffs.
With Pat Riley famously declaring " One suit, one shirt, one tie ," the team went on to win Game 6 in Dallas, winning their first NBA championship.
The team is one of two NBA franchises that play home games in New York City ; the other is the Knicks.
It won two ABA championships in New York before becoming one of four ABA teams to be admitted into the NBA as part of the ABA – NBA merger in 1976.
The Magic were one of the four new expansion franchises awarded by the NBA along with the Charlotte Hornets, Miami Heat and Minnesota Timberwolves.
Initially, the NBA was planning to expand by three teams, with one franchise going to Florida ; however, when both Miami, and Orlando ownership groups made successful pitches, the expansion committee decided to expand by four teams, allowing both to have a franchise.
Originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA.
In 1949, the Nationals were one of seven NBL teams that merged with the Basketball Association of America to form the NBA.
The NBA thus returned to Philadelphia one year after the Warriors had left for San Francisco.
That led to the 1977 – 78 motto of " We owe you one ", which would ultimately backfire when they lost in the playoffs that season to the Washington Bullets, who went on to win the NBA championship.

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