Basketball History

He was traveling to south Carolina at a rest stop he was just waking up from a nap when he was shot in the chest and they couldn't find him for about a week but cops seen this car that never moved so they went to write a ticket but when they seen inside they seen him dead the two killers were caught and sentenced to life in prison the shooting was on July 3 1993

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Prior to 2008 that was 1987 with the Lakers defeating the Celtics, 4 games to 2, to win the NBA championship.

A three-point rule was tested in 1933 at the suggestion of Herman Sayger of Tiffin, Ohio. Sayger demonstrated new rules designed to eliminate the center jump and establish a new scoring system in a game played by high school athletes in Tiffin, Ohio. Sayger's scoring system consisted of an arc fifteen feet from the basket, and an arc 25 feet from the basket. Shots made from within the fifteen-foot arc counted as one point, shots made from between the two arcs counted as two points, and shots made from outside the 25 foot arc were worth three points. The three-point rule was first tested, at the collegiate level, in a 1945 National Collegiate Athletic Association game between Columbia and Fordham but professional basketball would be the first to adopt the rule on a permanent basis. The short-lived American Basketball League did so in 1961, and the Eastern Professional Basketball League followed in its 1963-64 season. The three-point shot later became popularized by the ABA after its introduction in 1968. During the 1970s, the ABA would use the three-point shot, along with the slam dunk, as a marketing tool to compete with the National Basketball Association (NBA). In the 1979-80 season, the NBA officially adopted the three-point shot. On October 12, 1979, Chris Ford scored the NBA's first three-point shot, and Fred Brown led the league in three-point field goal percentage in that first season of adoption. The sport's international governing body, FIBA, introduced the three-point line in 1984. The NCAA's Southern Conference became the first collegiate conference to use the three-point rule, adopting a 22-foot line in 1980. Over the following five years, NCAA conferences differed in their use of the rule and the distance they required for a three-point shot. The NCAA adopted the 19-foot, 9-inch line nationally in 1986. On May 3, 2007 the NCAA rules committee decided to lengthen the three point line to 20 feet 9 inches. This rule will come into effect at the beginning of the 2008-09 season. J.J. Redick currently holds the NCAA Division I record with 457 three-point field goals while shooting 40.4% from three-point range for his career. During the 1994-95, 1995-96, and 1996-97 seasons, the NBA attempted to address decreased scoring (due to tougher style defenses) by shortening the overall distance of the line to a uniform 22 feet (6.7 m) around the basket. Dennis Scott used this rule change to set a record for most three-pointers in a season: 267 in 1995-96. (This record was surpassed by Ray Allen with 269 in the 2005-06 season.) In the same season, the legendary Michael Jordan, who was never known for his three-point shooting, used the closer arc to his advantage as he established a career high with a three-point field goal percentage of almost 43%. From the 1997-98 season, the NBA reverted the line to its original distance of 23 feet, 9 inches (22 feet at the corners). With the legalization of zone defense in 2001, the three-point shot became more important, because of its ability to stretch out a zone.

The heaviest basketball player of all time was Shaquille O'Neal, who weighed 350 pounds. After his retirement, the heaviest basketball player is now Dexter Pittman of the Miami Heat, who weighs 308 pounds.

No. The closest someone has come to that is the Chicago Bulls in the 1995-96 season when they won 72 lost 10, with a .878 percentage for the season. and that was with Jordan, Pipen, and Rodman... Good luck to anyone who missed that season if they want to see it happen again.

No, they charter a plane to travel

Mike Gminski (1977-1980) is Duke's all-time leading rebounder with 1,242 in his career.

no they are not just friends

Yes the team that loses the nba championship game gets the conference championship ring not as big or nice but a ring is a ring I guess...

Some people just don't like participating in sporting events. Others can't cause of poor health or disabilities. Just because some people do not participate doesn't mean they are bad people, just that they don't like sports.

He played 7 years and NBA champion ship

Arizona was the first to beat three No 1 seed teams in a NCAA Tournament.

Yao Ming is taller than Shaquille O'Neal. Shaq is 7 feet 1 inch(2.16 meters) while Yao is 7 feet 6 inches(2.29 meters).

up to 5 players on each team can play at once

17 championships

== == For a player, it is Wilt Chamberlain with 100 against the New York Knicks in 1962. The most points scored in a game by an NBA team is 186 by the Detroit Pistons in a game against the Denver Nuggets in 1983. The Pistons won 186-184 in three overtimes. The 370 total points is also an NBA record for most points scored by both teams in one game.

the brief rules in basketball are: Do not travel (which means do not pick the ball up and run with it) Do not double dribble (which means do not bounce the ball, pick it up and bounce again. If you pick it up you have to either shoot or pass the ball.) Do not foul ( which means do not make contact with any other player on the other team, you can only hit the ball) they are the basic rules, but there are many others but they are more complicated.

heat won game 1 of the 2011 nba finals

Are you kidding Lebron dosent have obstacles.