Sunday, January 20, 2008

Today's Date in NBA History

(Boulder-CO) Today's date is January 20th, and on this day:

1892- The first official basketball game took place at the YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts. There were two nine-man teams. A soccer ball was used and peach baskets were nailed 10 feet above the floor on the balcony.

'52- George Mikan scored 61 points, a career-high for the NBA’s first superstar, as he led the Minneapolis Lakers to a 91-81 double-overtime victory over the Rochester Royals.

'67- Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers made all 15 of his field goal attempts against the Los Angeles Lakers, at the time the NBA record for most field goals made without a miss in a single game. Remarkably, Chamberlain bettered the mark twice before the 1966-67 season ended, including his NBA record 18-for-18 performance against Baltimore on February 24, 1967.

'70- Cincinnati’s Tom Van Arsdale and Phoenix’s Dick Van Arsdale become the first brothers to play in the same All-Star Game. Dick scored eight points for the West team, while Tom scored five for the East, which won the game 142-135 at Philadelphia.

'95- Karl Malone reached 20,000 career points after hitting for a game-high 28 points in Utah’s 94-84 win over visiting Cleveland.

'96- Denver’s Dale Ellis connected on a pair of three-point field goals during the Nuggets’ 115-110 home loss to Sacramento, allowing him to become the first NBA player with 1,200 career three-pointers.

'99- The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association signed the new Collective Bargaining Agreement, paving the way for training camps to open after the first regular-season work stoppage in NBA history.

'00- Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz reaches the 43,000-minute plateau in Utah's 94-89 victory over Vancouver to become the eighth player in NBA history to pass that mark.

'01- Former New York Knicks’ General Manager Eddie Donovan, who built the roster of the Knicks’ 1970 NBA championship team, died in New Jersey at age 78.
Enjoy your day!

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