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  NBA - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The NBA, formerly all white players and coaches, became the first professional sports league to have a fl head coach in 1966, the first to have a fl general manager in 1972, and the first to have a fl majority owner in 2002.
The NBA Coach of the Year Award is awarded to either the best coach in the league or the coach that has made the most positive difference to a team.
The final playoff round, a best-of-seven series between the victors of both conferences, is known as the NBA Finals.
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The life of the HOFer and the NBA's greatest gunner, on and off the court, including the influences that shaped his career.
The NBA Finals: The Official Illustrated History by Roland Lazenby (1990).
The History of the NBA by Peter J. Bjarkman (1992).
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 Basketball Digest: ABA Numbers Paint a Very Different Picture
Don't forget, the NBA voted to merge with the ABA in June 1970, with Oscar Robertson's legal action against the NBA, not ABA game action, delaying the merger some six years.
It defeated the NBA 79-76 in exhibitions (ironically, two NBA wins came when Erving played for the Atlanta Hawks, before the courts forced him to finish his contract with the Virginia Squires).
ABA vets filled four of the 10 slots on the All-NBA first and second teams, and the ABA was well represented in the NBA Finals by the Philadelphia 76ers' Erving, McGinnis, and Caldwell Jones, and the Portland Trail Blazers' Maurice Lucas and David Twardzik.
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 NBA History: Dennis Johnson
He was a member of three NBA championship squads, and his postseason heroics earned him a reputation as a money player.
The Sonics finished at 47-35 and bolted into the NBA Finals against the Washington Bullets after eliminating the Los Angeles Lakers, the defending NBA-champion Portland Trail Blazers, and the Denver Nuggets.
In a rematch against the Bullets in the 1979 NBA Finals, Seattle dropped the first contest but won the next four to claim the team's first championship.
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 2003 - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
March 16 - Iraq disarmament crisis: The leaders of the United States, Britain, Portugal, and Spain meet at a summit in the Azores Islands.
U.S. President Bush calls Monday, March 17th, the "moment of Truth", meaning that the "coalition of the willing" would make its final effort to extract a resolution from the U.N. Security Council that would give Iraq an ultimatum to disarm immediately or to be disarmed by force.
June 15 - 2003 NBA Finals end San Antonio Spurs def New Jersey Nets 4 games to 2.
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 Grand Lingo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Grandmother's funeral is an excuse to skip work to go to a baseball game, to miss finals at college, or to avoid any onerous task.
Cultivating and improving the apple remained largely a family project until the Australian government made a large-scale planting in 1895; by then the apple was referred to as "Granny Smith's seedling." In 1950, a park at Eastwood was named Granny Smith Memorial Park.
He was the only player in history to lead the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the ABA, and the NBA in scoring, and in 1996 was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team.
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 Johnson, Walter --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Johnson used perseverance and desire to overcome his lack of height to excel in the NBA.
This shows the long-time rivalry between Larry Bird and Magic Johnson and their dominance of the NBA.
Magic Johnson's skyhook brings the Lakers to the 1987 NBA finals.
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 Association for Professional Basketball Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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