National Basketball League is renamed the NBA
On April 23, 1950 – 1950: In the summer of ’49, the six surviving National Basketball League teams are absorbed into the Basketball Association of America and the league is renamed the National Basketball Association. It makes no difference what the league is called; George Mikan still comes out a champion.
For the third consecutive year, Mikan’s Minneapolis Lakers are the pro champions. With the 6-foot-10 center scoring 40 points, the Lakers beat the Syracuse Nationals, 110-95, in Game 6 to win the NBA title before 9,812 fans, the largest crowd to see a pro basketball game in Minneapolis.
Three fights spice tonight’s game, with police intervening in a first-quarter bout between the Lakers’ Jim Pollard and the Nats’ Paul Seymour.
Four Lakers, including Mikan, foul out in the bruising game. Dolph Schayes leads Syracuse with 23 points, 18 in the fourth quarter.
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