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Basketball was invented by James naismith
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Basketball was intorduced to women
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Regulations
Player were allowed one free thrwo when a foul was committed while shooting -
First Pro Basketball league was formed (NBL)
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College Basketball
Yale, Harvard, Trinty, Holy Cross, Amerherst, and Williams colleges form the New Egland Intercollegaite Basketball Legue -
Wright Brother make first succesfull airplabe
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Basketball moves west
University of Minnesota and University of Wisconsin compete again Eastern school in a championship -
Regulations
Players were allowed only five fouls -
NAACP is founded
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360 colleges offer basketball
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WWI starts in Eurpoe
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US joins WWI
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Women Vote
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37 states offer women's basketball
Five years after women are given the right to vote, they are given more oppurtunties in areas that once seem to be mascline including politics and sports -
Nazi Party is formed
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Social Securtiy is asstablished
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First NCAA Tourneyment
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Japan Invades China
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First NIT Touney
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Peal Harbor
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End of WWII
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Jackie Robinson breaked color band
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BAA is founded (another pro team)
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Korean War begins
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Truman Assanation Attempt
Two Puerto Rician Nationalsit try to kill President Truman -
First black basketball player
Four years after Jackie Robinson intergraded baseball, Earl Lloyd was the first basketball NBA player -
Period: to
John Wooden Era
At a time when America was turned upside down, John Wooden's strict adn fundemently style of coaching helped to make one of the best basketball fanshieces in history -
JFK Assaination
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Civil Rights Bill is passed
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ABA is founded
another pro team, with a more flashy style of playing -
MLK Assanation
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Moon Landing
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ABA was disbanded
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NCAA Championship with Magic Johnson and Larry Bird
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Rookie Salary cap is set
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9/11
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Draft Rules change
A player cannot be drafted right of high school admn must be 19 years old before he can play in hte NBA -
Economony Decline
This effected the NBA lockout three years later, After the crash, labor protests were common for in all fields of work including professional sports -
NBA Strike- dispute over salary cap
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NBA Lockout
Salary and collective bargining dispute
