12 Facts About The NBA

1. The NBA would be totally different today if Hurricane Hugo didn't force Duncan to play basketball.

2. The NBA approved the purchase with Jordan putting up just $30 million in cash, according to the Charlotte Observer, an arrangement the league would almost certainly not approve today.

3. Boston Celtics won 11 of 13 The NBA titles from 1957 through 1969, a dominance unparalleled in modern sports.

4. The NBA is one of the most impressive sporting leagues in the world.

5. The NBA is the only league that regularly schedules games on Christmas Day.

6. The NBA is one of only two of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada in which teams play every other team during the regular season.

7. The NBA originated in 1946 with 11 teams, and through a sequence of team expansions, reductions, and relocations currently consists of 30 teams.

8. The NBA would become the first major North American professional sports league to allow corporate sponsorship logos on official team uniforms, and the last to have a uniform manufacturer logo appear on its team uniforms.

9. The NBA expanded rapidly during this period, one purpose being to tie up the most viable cities.

10. The NBA landed the most important college star of the era, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

11. The NBA is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada.

12. The NBA is an active member of USA Basketball, which is recognized by FIBA ( known as the International Basketball Federation) as the national governing body for basketball in the United States.