Posts from Basketball History 101 podcast
We have two related stories today. The first is about the lowest scoring game in NBA history, which directly leads to the second story about the invention of the shot clock. An Absolute Debacle – Minneapolis Lakers vs Ft. Wayne Pistons On Wednesday, November 22, 1950, the Minneapolis Lakers were playing host to the Ft. … Read more
One event could have changed the landscape of NBA history as we know it. I am going to share about the time that the Lakers’ plane crashed in an Iowa cornfield. It happened on Sunday, January 17, 1960, and the Lakers had just played the St. Louis Hawks earlier in the day and were about … Read more
Marvin “Bad News” Barnes was a naturally gifted player who seemed to just be better than everyone else, without really trying. He just made everything seem so effortless. Born in Providence, Rhode Island he got his nickname because of his propensity to get in trouble with the law. In high school, he tried to rob … Read more
Today we are taking you to the barnstorming days of early basketball. Our subject is a team called the New York Rens, short for the New York Renaissance. Sometimes they were called the Renaissance Big Five, or the Douglas Rens after their owner Bob Douglas. Their hay day was all the way back to the … Read more
Seeing that this is the very first entry of this blog I thought, what better place to start than with the very first basketball game ever played. To do that I need to take you back to the year 1891 to western Massachusetts, to a town called Springfield. There we find a school called the … Read more