Referat Basketball in the NBA

_{Basketball in the NBA}

NBA = National Basketball Association

- Basketball is very popular in the USA

- Stars have got high - endowed contracts

_{History of Basketball and the NBA:}

- 1891 basketball was originated by Dr. James Naismith

- 1936 basketball was an event of the Olympic Games for the first time

- 1937 the first basketball league was founded : the NBL ( = National Basketball League)

- 1946 another basketball league was installed: the BAA ( = Basketball Association of America)

- 1949 formation of the NBA out of the two other leagues

- today the NBA contents 29 teams spread over whole North America

_{Distribution of the teams:}

2 Conferences (29 teams)

_{Western Division (14 teams) Eastern Division (15 teams)}

_Season:

-    the regular season goes from November to April

- the play-off-round from May until June, where the best eight teams of both conferences took place

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Special feature: the all-year All-star-game, which is very popular:

- The best of the East play against the best of the West

- Three-point-shootout

- Dunking contest

- former famous players were e.g. Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Michael Jordan

- today´s stars are Shaquille O Neal, Kobe Bryant, Allan Yverson,.

- the only two German in the USA are Detlev Schrempf and Dirk Nowitzki

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