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https://www.corriere.it/sport/18_ottobre_31/nba-72-anni-non-sentirli-1-novembre-1946-prima-partita-ab8416f2-dcd7-11e8-989f-9f5167836d06.shtml Il basket Usa, curiosamente, nasce a Toronto, in Canada: il primo incontro fu tra gli antenati dei Raptors e i Knicks. Il primo canestro? Di Schectman di Fiorenzo Radogna Corriere.it 31 ottobre 2018 C’è un video - rilasciato da fonte ufficiale - che ci mostra alcune azioni di quel 1° novembre 1946 . Su un parquet ingiallito dalla messa a fuoco in bianco e nero, dieci allampanati diafani si sfidano in una partita di pallacanestro destinata a entrare nella storia. Quel filmato - vero reperto di «archeologia sportiva» - riprende il primo canestro della prima gara di NBA (National Basketball Association), che era stata fondata solo il 6 giugno precedente col nome (transitorio) di Baa (Basketball Association of America). E resta qualcosa di poetico in quelle articolazioni fasciate da ginocchiere, in quei fisici (troppo) anglosassoni, proiettai in gest...

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/toronto-huskies Article by Dave Zarum Published Online October 29, 2018 Last Edited October 29, 2018 On 1 November 1946, the Toronto Huskies faced the New York Knicks in the first professional basketball game played in Canada. Although the Huskies folded after only one season, it was Canada’s first professional basketball team and a founding member of the Basketball Association of America – what would later become the National Basketball Association. An advertisement for the BAA/NBA’s first game on 1 November 1946, played at Maple Leaf Gardens between the Toronto Huskies and the New York Knickerbockers. Ad features Ed Sadowski, the captain of the Huskies. It appeared in the Toronto Daily Star on 31 October 1946. Professional Sports in Toronto November 1946 was a hectic month in the Toronto sports calendar. Six games into the National Hockey League season, the Toronto Maple Leafs were in first place in their division. The Toronto Argonau...

https://www.nba.com/raptors/holly-blog/raptors-pay-homage-huskies-110816 toralaksmana November 8, 2016 - 3:35 PM EST Holly MacKenzie - Raptors.com Get ready for Throwback Night at Air Canada Centre. When the Toronto Raptors host the New York Knicks in a rare Saturday night game at Air Canada Centre, the faces will be the same, but the colour scheme will be a bit different. Paying homage to the Toronto Huskies, the Raptors will set aside their red and white uniforms and slip into some blue for a callback to the 1946-47 season of the Basketball Association of America. The Huskies were a founding member of the BAA (what is now known as the NBA). They hosted the New York Knickerbockers in the BAA’s first game, November 1, 1946 at Maple Leaf Gardens, and it's quite fitting that this year’s Huskies night will feature the Raptors facing off against the Knicks. A crowd of 7,090 was on hand to see the Knickerbockers defeat the Huskies 68-66, in a basketball game where dunking was illegal an...

https://www.nba.com/knicks/1946knicksheadtotorontotoplayfirstgameinfranchisehistory August 17, 2016 - 1:22 PM EDT 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? He’d heard of the New York Rangers, but not the Knicks. “I don’t imagine you’ll find many people up this way who’ll understand your game, or have an interest in it,” said the patrolman. He was right, to a point. The Toronto Huskies would fold after one season. (Other original BAA teams included the Providence Steamrollers, the Pittsburgh Ironmen and the Chicago Stag.) But he was wrong about t...

Oscar "Ossie" Schectman, the former New York Knicks guard who scored the first basket in NBA history nearly seven decades ago, died Tuesday. He was 94. SI Staff | Jul 30, 2013 Oscar "Ossie" Schectman, the former New York Knicks guard who scored the first basket in NBA history nearly seven decades ago, died Tuesday. He was 94.  Schectman's son Peter confirmed his father's death, which was also announced by the Knicks . Peter Schectman said his father did not have a prolonged illness and succumbed after developing complications related to respiratory failure.  "Ossie Schectman was a true NBA pioneer," NBA Commissioner David Stern said, adding that scoring the league's first basket "placed him permanently in the annals of NBA history."  Schectman scored the opening basket of a game in what was then known as the BAA on Nov. 1, 1946 for the Knicks against the Toronto Huskies, a layup after cutting down the center of the lane. The Knicks w...