Remembering the first game in NBA history (with actual footage!) | NBA Today
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- NBA Today looks back at the first game in NBA history, between the New York Knicks and the Toronto Huskies in 1946.
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For anyone interested, the stadium where the first game was played is still open today (although it’s been partially converted to a supermarket).
😂😂😂😂😂
A very nice supermarket!
What😂
I bet a Walmart
Where is it at
How do we have footage for this but not Wilt's 100 point game bruh
LMAO. Facts
The home team was playing in what is basically the mecca of hockey at the time, during a period of great success. The local papers probably had some patriotic favour too since basketball was invented by a Canadian anyhow.
Cause it never happened. Kobe's 81 did happen. We have the footage.
cuz no one knew wilt was going to score 100 points
Because the losing team doesn't wanna get very embarrassed so they had to bury it as hard as they can lol
Now 75 years later the league is huge. It's thanks to guys like this we have the sport we love now
0:58 LMAO that player model! XD
00:34 that's a nice play
It's crazy to think there's footage of the first ever basketball game, but no footage of Wilt "The stilt" Chamberlain 100 pt game.
hahaha
This was the opening day of the league.. dude got that 100 vs a no body in a city that people can't remember.. They didn't have the money to Televise all the games back then.
@@igot5onit423 it's still hard to get 100 points though, even if it's aganist ''no body'
It is a s shame that we don't have it. But it's not some kind of conspiracy. They just didn't know.
@@igot5onit423y’all be speaking so confidently to be wrong
Fun fact, it was actually called the BAA. It wasn't called the NBA until it merged with the NBL 3 years later. The NBL is older and some of the teams come from it like the Kings and Lakers but for whatever reason the records and history of those teams don't count, they are considered to have been founded on the day they joined the BAA/NBA
Exactly correct. Its inaccurate to call the NBA when it wasn't. First year of the NBA season was 1950-1951.
I knew that
@@datboiking4901 🧢
@@codygooch510 I did know that, I been knew that
@@datboiking4901 sure kid .
He and his team were the best player and team in history for a couple of seconds
I love how they were running basic motion back then. Dope
This footage is still way better than the UFO footage from fighter jets 🗿
All these years, I never knew who Bud Palmer was. My dad, who also went to Princeton in the 40s (WWII notwithstanding), worked in advertising in Manhattan and used to mention fairly often having lunch with a college friend named "Bud Palmer." Can't believe I never knew who this actually was until just TODAY.
this video is fascinating
Looks like a couple of old school wise guys playing hoop for fun 😂.
Lol 😂
Just like everyone who plays Basketball in mom's backyard.
“Wise guys” 😂😂😂
A lot of them had regular day jobs, there wasn’t much pay for being a professional basketball player at this time, contracts weren’t very high until the early-mid 80s
I bet Udonis Haslem was at the bench
Lol probably when he was a kid
so glad malika got a regular tv role now, crazy just a couple years ago she just popped up on sportscenter occassionaly
Shiii 😏
Puzzled why this segment would open with “The first game in NBA history was a road game for the Knicks”…wouldn’t it be more straightforward to say something like “the first NBA game was in Toronto when the Toronto Huskies played the New York Knicks”? Bizarre way to report it.
It was probably from a Knicks documentary later shown on ESPN.
Imagine being the all-time leading scorer in NBA history with just 2 points
😏
The first nba goal looked like a finger roll we do to this day
More team play, less ISO, that’s why they set the term fundamentals.
I love how they bumped each others body and no foul call lol
Little rays of sunshine 🌞
Wish they'd bring back the short shorts/trunks uniform as was in this video
Bill Russell is the Real Goat! Hands down. NBA just hates on him because he dominated the league with Wilt and Hakeem included
1946: No Blacks Allowed
2021: Nothing But Africans
ngl this made me chuckle
luka, Joker, tyler herro, sabonis, Caruso, Love, Porzingus, Rubio, Dragic, Lopez, come on. Nothing But?
They were sacred all this time
@@AJoaquin305 Sure, but people of African descent (whether they're Black Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, or Africans themselves) still comprise 80% of the NBA's player base, and that includes people of *partial* African descent like Steph Curry and Zach Lavine.
@@theobuniel9643What are you arguing?
”Nothing but” means 100% not 80. Which is also wrong because it’s closer to 70% btw. Why does it bother y’all so much anyway is there a problem with that?
It was never “nothing but” blacks and never will be because it’s stupid boring and racist to exclude every race but one in sports where skill is all that matters. White men would never let that happen anyway they were the only ones that were allowed do that back then😂 NBA, MLB ETC.
It was quite literally “nothing but” white men for years until they let in a Japanese player, then a black man(who they cut in training camp) and never let play then another couple more years before you saw a colored man (who was still half white i assume because fully black was still too scary) play.
How could they amass such a big audience?
Them players looked good too
Fun Fact: before there were 30 teams like there are today the NBA (which was the BAA when it started) started with 11 teams
Are the Toronto Raptors gonna wear those old school colored unis for tonight's game to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NBA's first ever game? They're playing against the Knicks, of course.
Imagine if those spectators were here now
No one is talking about the knee guards they used to wear?! 00:43
they are
The New York KNICKS scored the first 🏀 basket and win in NBA history 🙌 . We're here We're here KNICKS 🔥 🔥 🔥
I can see micheal jordan getting in a Time Machine, going back to that time period bragging he can beat anybody, putting bets…winning… brotha won’t make it back haha
What you said was not funny in the slightest..
You should have said something more along the lines of him watching this clip made it personal He's in the gym as we speak..
some variant of that would have been funnier.. Not Trying to criticize but just give pointers.. now go out there and make yourself proud
1 game in toronto
Better chemistry than the James harden clippers
They got video of the first nba game, but don’t got video when Wilt scored 100 points 💀💀💀💀💀💀
They didn’t let no brothers play on the teams?
First guy to break the NBA's color barrier was Earl Lloyd in 1953.
Nope this was in the 40s
did u forget segregation
@@rbermea Earl Lloyd, chuck Cooper, nat Clifton, to be exact
@@rbermea Correction: Earl Lloyd was the first BLACK NBA player, but he wasn't the first to break the color barrier. That belongs to Wataru "Wat" Misaka, a Japanese American player who played for the Knicks in 1947.
The league started about 75 years and 1 day before my 13th birthday. Now I'm about to be 14 and it's about to be 76 years old.
I hope they stopped the game after that first shot was made to honor the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.
Last time I check you could not dribble with the first ball
Better back then lmao
It's not that hard to get footage from the 1940's. Would have been a little sensation if there were some from 1896...
In Canada the government (CBC) placed dishes across the country (the largest communication system in the world before satellites). It enabled all Canadians to watch TV including Hockey Night In Canada (and Newfoundland) and games like this.
@@peterp3078
OK. 😄👍🏻
Actually it is pretty hard to get game footage from the 1940s, hardly any exists.
But no footage of wilts...nvmnd
Knicks with the first win! . . . And hasn't since.
The basketballs also weren't that big and weren't that bouncy
The basketballs were pretty much the same size as now but they were not machine made so they were lumpy and bounce erratically.
No footage of Wilt’s 100 points though?
No there isn’t. What’s your point?
@@NebraskaGonvilleJones his point is that we have footage of the very first NBA game, yet no footage of probably the best performance by a player, ever
@@LH-ew5wx What a dense application of logic you are using (or not so it would seem). Wilts 100 point game was in 1962. At the time the only recordings of a game would have been through television rights to do so. This was an expensive exercise and in this particular year the contract was with a station called Sports Network Incorporated (they only had the contract for two seasons before going belly up) Ratings and the league at the time we’re very small, only two games that season we’re televised. That particular regular season game was played at a ‘neutral’ stadium in Pennsylvania (only half full) as Philly was in the transition to Golden State.
The better question would be, using understanding of the time; “why would there have been ‘footage’ of the game”?
It is completely understandable why the inaugural game of a brand new league with aspirations has game footage, it was an occasion. Likewise this 100 point game was anything but.
How is there footage of this but not Wilt's 100pt game? The most dominant player in the sport and everyone left their cameras at home?
Seeing no dislikes are FALTERING
there is already one
@@shatoshi331 why I feel like you did it😭😭
youtube does not show number of dislikes anymore
116th Commented 💙
Big shout out to Stephen A. Smith for that time he disrespected the Raptors, It's as if he didn't know.
Great journalist.
Which one is LeBron James
I’m the first one to comment on the first nba game 💙
Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆 hopefully there talk about it in the future
@@josephmontalvo1438 right🤣🤣
Second
Dribbling was no even a thing in the first game and i saw dribbles
the knicks have to have to worst name in all of sports knickerbockers are a style of pants settlers wore when they came to the new world lmao. nobody says anything but imagine if there was a team called the Jeans or the Cargo pants. that's what the Knicks are LOL
I have to point this out, they were all white in the nba now black💀
just started watching basketball when does this lebron mf show up tho
when is lebron coming
Every NBA player were little Jewish dudes
Ok, where are all the black players?
Segregation lmao.
Dude nba is so boring what episode does it get interesting
Interesting how 4 Jews EARNED their way to the NBA in the beginning. I wonder if Ye has a problem with them too.
Bro said dude only scored because he wasn’t guarding him. None of y’all would’ve scored if we were allowed to play then 😅
but then you culturally appropriated basketball from white people.
Basketball invented for a black people thanks Mr. Naismith
What?
@@masongreen1371 fr. What??
Kaizen king that the dumbest thing I saw somebody wrote
What are you talking about mate? You don’t make sense 🤨
As I used to tell by friends when I lived in Colorado in the sixties -- Please learn the history of your country., That would include sports.
Many white mens