real tough Trivia

Who is credited with scoring the first basket in the NBA history, who did he score them for and when? Hint NBA started in 1946.

beat

Guess it wa a bit too tough

here the answer

On November 1st, 1946 the inaugural NBA was played between the New York Knickerbockers and the Toronto Huskies. It was a guard by name of Ozzie Schectman who scored the first bucket on a two handed scoop shot.

beat

You don't see that shot every day. lol. I wonder how tall Ozzie was.

Thanks, Beat

I just answered my own question. He was 6' 0" and played both point guard (as it's now called) and (gulp) forward.

He's apparently still alive, although I don't know exactly when the following interesting article was written.

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/rosen/030408.html

Oh yes, he's also my great grandson.

Sam

Sam wrote:I just answered my own question. He was 6' 0" and played both point guard (as it's now called) and (gulp) forward.

He's apparently still alive, although I don't know exactly when the following interesting article was written.

http://espn.go.com/page2/s/rosen/030408.html

Oh yes, he's also my great grandson.

Sam

This is my favorite part of that article:


Schectman and his boyhood chums all grew up in poverty on New York's Lower East Side, where the cost of a legitimate basketball was far beyond their means. "Sometimes somebody gave us an old worn-out ball," he says, "all thin-skinned and shiny. We just taped up all the holes and used it as long as we could. When we didn't have a ball, we used to tape some rags together in the shape of a ball."


How the Hell do you dribble a bunch of rags???

VERY forcefully.

There must have been a lot of great passers back then. Maybe that's the origin of the 1950s-1960s assist rule that awarded an assist only when the pass recipient did not dribble the ball before shooting.

Sam