In the history of NBA development, Dr. James Naishmi, an American, created basketball at Springfield College1891with two broken baskets and a substitute football, which found a way for students to exercise in winter, thus leading to the NBA in full swing today. When the NBA was born on June 6, 1946,/kloc-0, there was a strange name called BAA. The emergence and development of NBA is the accumulation and precipitation of basketball in the first 50 years. Since basketball was invented by Dr. james naismith in 189 1, in 1898, a team in Trenton, New Jersey, USA rented a local auditorium for 25 dollars to play and sold tickets to the audience. In the bonus after the game, Captain Cooper made a great contribution to the organization of the game, and first won $65,438 +0. This "paid basketball game" was recognized as the first "professional basketball game" by Encyclopedia Britannica, and Cooper became the first "professional player" to earn money from basketball games. The real contribution of this game lies in discovering and realizing the market value of basketball. There is a relationship between investment and income in this $25. It was impossible to investigate the number of players from both sides in the audience at that time. If each team has at least 5 players (this is the minimum number of players on one side of the competition), then both sides have 65,438+00 players, and each player gets $65,438+05. The total income is 150 USD, and with the bonus of Captain Cooper 1 USD, the investment of $25 brings the income of 1 USD. After 1996, 15 1 USD has grown to over USD 4 billion. The basic concepts and principles used by the NBA are the same as Cooper's idea of renting an audience. After Trenton, the "paid competition" was rapidly launched in the United States. In order to protect the interests of players participating in "paid games", teams all over the country set up the first professional basketball organization-"National League" (NBL) from 65438 to 0898. Because the economic strength and technical level of each team are far from each other, and there is no mature market operation experience and rules, NBL exists in name only after three or four seasons, and its competitive technical level and management level are very low. After the establishment of NBL, many similar professional basketball organizations appeared in the United States, but all of them were like passing clouds. In 1930s, NBL revived in some small and medium-sized cities and held some small-scale leagues. However, due to the lack of sufficient funds to promote sales, the influence of basketball has never been formed. BAA was founded by the owners of eleven ice hockey stadiums and gyms. The original intention was to keep the gym busy when it wasn't playing ice hockey. The owners of these gyms are experts in running gyms. In view of the fact that NBA "National Basketball League" teams are mostly concentrated in some small and medium-sized cities in the midwest, they put forward the idea of establishing local famous teams and a national basketball organization in the big cities at that time. Therefore, BAA and other basketball leagues, big and small at that time, have three distinct characteristics: first, the owners of eleven teams have their own gyms, so that the teams have their own business territory; Secondly, all the players in BAA are basketball players who have just graduated from college, because the home and away university amateur league was very successful at that time; Thirdly, BAA league draws lessons from the schedule arrangement of ice hockey league at that time, and divides the team into two leagues, the east league and the west league, and then divides the team into several divisions according to the geographical location. In the regular season, teams in each league will play two home and away games, and teams in another league will play one home and away game. Finally, according to the good or bad results, the ranking of entering the playoffs is queued, and only entering the playoffs can we hope to win the championship. BAA adopts four quarters and 48 points system, with man-to-man defense and no joint defense. Today, these are still the most basic characteristics that distinguish NBA from amateur basketball. Walter Abram, one of the founders of BAA and the owner of Boston Garden Gymnasium, also put forward a new concept of professional basketball, that is, professional basketball must have strong financial support, a player can only play for one club and sign a strict contract, and a player reserve system should be established in the league. These theoretical contributions lie in introducing huge funds and legal restrictions into basketball, laying two cornerstones for the future development of NBA: high salary system and contract system. 1949, after BAA annexed NBL, in order to avoid possible legal troubles, it was officially renamed National Basketball Association, referred to as NBA. In 1950s, during the NBA season of 1949- 1950, BAA annexed NBL, and after "unifying the six countries", it started a new season with 17 teams, and officially changed its name to NBA-National Basketball Association. 1952, a dead end came into being, and the NBA released the 24-second system, which greatly improved the viewing and scoring rate of the game. When BAA entered the first season, a star joe fulks appeared. Fulks is 1.69 meters tall and comes from the University of Kentucky. At that time, it was difficult to score more than 80 points in a game. Fulks' performance was excellent. He is the only player who averaged more than 17 points per game in the season, averaging 23.2 points per game. Despite his excellent performance, Fulks still lacks a national star. Moreover, BAA has also encountered a series of troubles. At the beginning of the second season, there are only seven teams left in BAA. Although a new team was formed in Baltimore to join BAA, making BAA reach eight teams, no one can say whether this professional basketball league can survive in the United States centered on college basketball. Secondly, six of the eight teams are from the east. They practice regional protectionism and are not very friendly to teams from other regions. BAA suffered heavy losses in the first two seasons. Not only lost four teams, but also the size of the league dropped sharply from 60 games to 48 games, and the ticket revenue also decreased accordingly. The reduction of competition has also affected the expansion of new teams in the league. In a dilemma, BAA President PuDollof decided to implement his first plan to annex NBL, and poached NBL star george mikan. Because this giant with a height of 2.08 meters was the "cash cow" of the basketball court at that time. George mikan was famous in college, but he chose NBL when he graduated from 1946. In order to get this key figure, Pudor Love resisted the pressure of BAA "aristocrats" and decided to accept all teams, rich or poor, big or small, as long as they were willing to join BAA, so as to seduce the Minneapolis Lakers with McCann. The effort to win McCann actually turned into a bigger expansion plan in the implementation process. Dollof, who is good at diplomacy, persuaded all parties concerned to "rebel" McCann and his four teams, namely Minneapolis Lakers, Westborg Nisai, Rochester Royals and Indianapolis Pacers, from NBL to BAA. In the following seasons (1949- 1950), all the other six teams of NBL joined BAA, and the Providence Steam Turbine, one of the founding teams of BAA, announced its dissolution. 1949- 1950 season, BAA changed its name to NBA after annexing NBL, and divided its 17 team into three divisions, which opened a new development course of American professional basketball. With his determination and foresight, Dollof became the president of NBA, which made the NBA embark on the smooth road of steady development from the difficult start-up period. The NBA in 1950s was an era of "George Macon". He and his Minneapolis Lakers won the BAA championship in the first season (1948- 1949 season) when they joined BAA from NBL. 1948- 1954 In the past six years, except for the NBA championship of 1950- 195 1 season, the other five times were won by the Lakers led by McCann. 1954 in the second half, with the retirement of george mikan, the Lakers' championship position was replaced by newly rising teams such as St. Louis, but the great "McCann era" remained in the history of NBA and people's hearts, because only george mikan could let the organizer (NBA) change the size of the 3-second zone and the height of the basket (from 3.05 meters to 3.66 meters) for him. In the late 1950s, without reference materials to judge a player's talent, Arnold Reid auerbach, the coach of Boston Celtics, traded two excellent strikers, De Macaulay and Cliff Hagen, for Russell's draft pick of St. Louis Hawks, and won the draft of 1956 by the pitchers tom heinsohn. It has formed a strong lineup with Cousy Shaman as the main defender, heinsen as the main striker and Russell as the main center, and has become an impeccable team in all positions. 1957, 4:3 defeated the St. Louis Hawks and won the championship for the first time, which also accumulated strength and experience for the Celtics' glory in the 1960 s. It is worth mentioning that 1958, the St. Louis Hawks have greatly increased their strength because of the tacit cooperation between Macaulay Hagen and superstar Bob Petit. They beat Celtic 4-2 to win the championship in the finals, and got revenge for last year. However, such a thing has never happened again. . . . It is not easy. Take it.