FILE - In this Nov. 12, 1955, file photo, New York's Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton (8) and Boston's Bob Cousy (14) race for a loose ball in an opening period of a basketball game at Madison Square Garden, ...

Timeline of the National Basketball Association from its founding as the Basketball Association of America through the 1950s. The timeline includes milestone moments in the league’s history as the NBA ...

Back in the 1950s, the NBA was at its lowest point. Not only was it almost irrelevant compared to other national sports like baseball, football and hockey, but far from what it is now in terms of ...

A career in the NBA seemed such an uncertainty as the 1950s arrived that Bob Cousy considered driving school a better option than playing for a team he didn’t even know how to find on a map.

The 1950s All-Decade Team for the NBA as voted on by AP Sports staffers directly engaged with the season-long NBA At 75 series. The team members are: A pioneer of the jump shot known as 'œPitchin' ...

The 1950s saw the first wave of NBA centers come in and Dominate the league right away. Leading this charge was George Mian who played a total of seven seasons with the Minneapolis Lakers from 1949 ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A career in the NBA seemed such an ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Timeline of the National Basketball ...

Over the last month-plus, we have been on a journey through time in the NBA, ranking the 5 greatest players at every position in every decade from the 1950s through the 2020s. We started with the ...

A career in the NBA seemed such an uncertainty as the 1950s arrived that Bob Cousy considered driving school a better option than playing for a team he didn't even know how to find on a map.