Danny Biasone, Ex-Team Owner And N.B.A. Innovator, Dies at 83
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/27/sports/danny-biasone-ex-team-owner-and-nba-innovator-dies-at-83.html By Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr. May 27, 1992 - The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from May 27, 1992, Section D, Page 19 Buy Reprints VIEW ON TIMESMACHINE Danny Biasone, the former team owner who rescued professional basketball from an impending demise by inventing the 24-second shot clock, died on Monday at University Hospital in Syracuse. He was 83 years old and died of a blood infection, his family said. If there was ever a "Why-didn't-I-think-of-that?" idea, it had to be Mr. Biasone's brainstorm that required pro basketball teams to take a shot within a fixed time after getting possession of the ball. Until Mr. Biasone, a bowling-alley proprietor who owned the old Syracuse Nationals, persuaded the National Basketball Association to introduce the 24-second clock at the beginning of the league's ninth season, in the fall of 1954, the