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Stories of Basketball Stars
Oscar Daniel Schmidt: Mão Santa
Oscar Schmidt Locker Room Oscar Schmidt basketball trading cards exist, primarily featuring his legendary international career with Brazil, with key rookie cards like the 1986-87 Merchante (often misspelled ‘Smith’) being notable, alongside Panini and other international releases, but…
Victor Wembanyama Wikipedia
Victor Wembanyama Wikipedia Page Victor Wembanyama is French, born 4 January 2004, … nicknamed “Wemby“, and “the Alien“. He is a French professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected…
Nikola Jokic
Nikola Jokic Is No Joker The Joker is no joke on the basketball court. He wasn’t the biggest name in the 2014 NBA Draft but Nikola Jokic has proven to be one of the best. And with…
Tarzan Cooper
Tarzan Cooper Tarzan Cooper: A legendary center for the New York Renaissance (Rens) in the 1930s and 40s best basketball players of the 1920s were headlined by Nat Holman, regarded as the era’s premier all-around player and…
Dr. James Naismith
Dr. James Naismith Invents Basketball Basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian physical education instructor, in December 1891 at the YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. He devised the game using peach baskets as…
Melvin Rideout Takes Basketball To Paris France
The Beginning of Basketball In France THE BEGINNING OF BASKETBALL IN EUROPE Melvin Rideout Takes Basketball To Paris France Melvin Rideout, one of Naismith’s students and original basketball disciple, went to Paris to help set-up the YMCA’s new…
Frank McGuire
Frank McGuire A Legend of The Game LOVE OF THE GAME Frank McGuire is best known for his love of ‘basketball people’ (all people) and his ability to teach the game of basketball. It is said…
Harry ‘Bucky’ Lew: First Black Professional
Bucky Lew Harry “Bucky” Lew (1884-1963) was basketball’s first Black professional player, >breaking the color barrier in 1902 in the New England Basketball League (NEBL) with the , and went on to become the first Black coach, manager, referee,…
George Mikan: The 1st ‘Big Man’ of Basketball
George Mikan was the most famous basketball player in the United States in the late 1940’s and into the 1950’s. He was professional basketball’s first true ‘superstar’, and the most popular player in the first years…
First NBA Championship
FIRST NBA CAMPIONSHIP GAME While the NBA as the world knows it today did not come into fruition until the 1949-50 season, its first official season is considered to be the 1946-47 season. That year marked the formation and…
First Televised Basketball Game
The First Televised Basketball Game – The earliest known film/video of a complete basketball game is from a doubleheader at Madison Square Garden in 1939. See this film footage of the first profession game being recorded on…
Phog Allen
Clearing The ‘Fog’ From The Game of Basketball Forrest Clare “Phog” Allen Forrest Clare “Phog” Allen (November 18, 1885 – September 16, 1974) Phog Allen lettered in college baseball and basketball, the latter under James Naismith, the inventor of…
N.Y. Celtics
New York Celtics A good understanding of how professional basketball teams operated and made money in the 1910 to 1930 time period can be found in a review of the N.Y. Celtics, no relationship to the Boston…
