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National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...
Timeline of Events
1949
8.3.1949
The National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
1962
3.2.1962
Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.
1976
8.8.1976
As part of the ABA-NBA merger agreement, a dispersal draft was conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded.
1991
11.7.1991
Magic Johnson announces that he is infected with HIV and retires from the NBA.
1996
2.16.1996
Shaquille O'Neal, at the time playing for the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association, makes his only career 3-point shot against the Milwaukee Bucks.