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Seventy years ago this October, a group of athletes from New York City drove upstate to cross the border into Toronto. The occasion: the first-ever regular season game in the Basketball Association of America, the short-lived precursor to the NBA. En route to Toronto, the first squad of the New York Knickerbockers was stopped at the border by a skeptical customs inspector. Who were these self-proclaimed professional athletes with names like Schectman, Kaplowitz, Hertzberg and Militzok? Heβd heard of the New York Rangers, but not the Knicks.
The NBA Remembers Its First Game Ever
The Sports Wire on X: #OnThisDay π The first game in NBA history! π’ On November 1, 1946, New York Knickerbockers beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in
Member of 1946 Toronto Huskies talks basketball
The Sports Wire on X: #OnThisDay π The first game in NBA history! π’ On November 1, 1946, New York Knickerbockers beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in
NYK70, 1946: Knicks Head to Toronto to Play First Game in Franchise History
The Sports Wire on X: #OnThisDay π The first game in NBA history! π’ On November 1, 1946, New York Knickerbockers beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in
Member of 1946 Toronto Huskies talks basketball
First NBA game played, November 1, 1946
Fast Fact on the Toronto Huskies vs. New York Knicks NBA 75th anniversary game
ON THIS DAY (Nov. 1, 1946) the FIRST NBA game took place in TORONTO as the New York Knicks took on the Toronto Huskies in front of 7,090 fans! π¨π¦ #NBA75
The Sports Wire on X: #OnThisDay π The first game in NBA history! π’ On November 1, 1946, New York Knickerbockers beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in
Fast Fact on the Toronto Huskies vs. New York Knicks NBA 75th anniversary game
Member of 1946 Toronto Huskies talks basketball