Remembering the first game in NBA history (with actual footage!) | NBA Today

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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[spookyghostwriter]

For anyone interested, the stadium where the first game was played is still open today (although it’s been partially converted to a supermarket).

[hubrty]

How do we have footage for this but not Wilt's 100 point game bruh

[qwertyzxcvbn]

Now 75 years later the league is huge. It's thanks to guys like this we have the sport we love now

[willbowden]

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

[Insanitydesigns]

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.

[laurentbfree]

I love how they were running basic motion back then. Dope

[HankThaTank_HF]

He and his team were the best player and team in history for a couple of seconds

[neighborhood_agent]

This footage is still way better than the UFO footage from fighter jets 🗿

[c.a.g.]

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.

[tonygill]

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.

[datsapaddlin]

Looks like a couple of old school wise guys playing hoop for fun 😂.

[StephenHSmith-mniq]

so glad malika got a regular tv role now, crazy just a couple years ago she just popped up on sportscenter occassionaly

[harlorformula]

Imagine being the all-time leading scorer in NBA history with just 2 points
😏

[prime]

The first nba goal looked like a finger roll we do to this day

[nathanpapichulo]

More team play, less ISO, that’s why they set the term fundamentals.

[ey-oywt]

I love how they bumped each others body and no foul call lol

[willread]

Bill Russell is the Real Goat! Hands down. NBA just hates on him because he dominated the league with Wilt and Hakeem included

[bg_drw]

Fun Fact: before there were 30 teams like there are today the NBA (which was the BAA when it started) started with 11 teams

[Randolph_]

Wish they'd bring back the short shorts/trunks uniform as was in this video

[chrismark]

1946: No Blacks Allowed
2021: Nothing But Africans