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The first basket in NBA history was scored vs Toronto Huskies. #toronto is always in the picture when it comes to history making. 
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The NBA was a "whites only" club, sad to say, at the time.Comment
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Someone find the original tape of this and burn it@sweatpantsjerComment
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Ossie Schectman, N.B.A.’s First Scorer, Dies at 94
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/sp...sketball&_r=1&
Ossie Schectman, a Knicks guard and a onetime all-American at Long Island University in Brooklyn, played when the two-handed set shot ruled and a 6-foot-8 center was a giant.
When Schectman died on Tuesday at 94, he was remembered as a central figure in the National Basketball Association’s creation tale. He scored the first 2 points in the league’s history and became something of a celebrity when the distinction was uncovered, 42 years and 5 million points later.
On the night of Nov. 1, 1946, the Knicks faced the Toronto Huskies at Maple Leaf Gardens, the home of the National Hockey League’s Maple Leafs, before 7,090 fans more familiar with face-offs than jump balls. The court covered the ice surface.
It was the inaugural game of the Basketball Association of America, which became the N.B.A. three years later.Schectman was among players from the inaugural N.B.A. game who were honored when the Knicks played the Toronto Raptors at Skydome in 1996 on the 50th anniversary of the league’s debut.
Schectman, whose death was announced by the Knicks, had retired to Delray Beach, Fla., after more than three decades in Manhattan’s garment industry and lived in Ardsley, N.Y., in Westchester County, in his final years.
His survivors include his wife, Evelyn, and his sons Stewart and Peter.
For his one season as a Knick, Schectman made $9,000, which included a $1,000 bonus for the playoffs. The Knicks’ entire payroll, as he recalled, was $60,000.
And the players did not exactly travel in pampered accommodations on chartered team jets.
“Our next time in Toronto, we got snowed in,” Schectman once told The New York Times, remembering a game in late December 1946.
“We had a game the next night in Providence, so we took cabs to Buffalo. When some of us missed our train there, we paid a cabdriver to take us to Albany. Then we took another cab to Providence and got there just in time.”Comment
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Hard to believe those dudes were in their mid-late 20's. They look like they were in their late 30's at best.Comment
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Babe Ruth hit his first Major League Home Run at Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island.rocwell wrote: View Post#toronto is always in the picture when it comes to history making.
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That was the International League, one step below Major League. Sorry, for being a stickler to detail.joey_hesketh wrote: View PostBabe Ruth hit his first Major League Home Run at Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island.
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unfortunately on the wrong side of the picture...rocwell wrote: View PostThe first basket in NBA history was scored vs Toronto Huskies. #toronto is always in the picture when it comes to history making.What they got to say now? Nothing they can say now. Mobbin' on the low. Winnin' on the lowThe city embraced me, made me feel at home. The only difference [between Compton and Toronto] for me is the cold. -DeMarNo Where Near the South Side #WeTheNorthComment
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