NBA Crossword Puzzles

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These NBA crossword puzzles cover the league's teams, legends and lore. Clues range from nicknames like the Pelicans and Raptors to Hall of Famers Hakeem Olajuwon, Tim Duncan and Charles Barkley, title runs by Bill Russell's Celtics and the Golden State Warriors, draft picks from Michael Jordan to LeBron James, and lost arenas like the Omni. Easier grids stick to team names, positions and nicknames; harder ones reach into buzzer-beaters and dunk contest lore.

Interesting Facts

1.The Basketball Association of America played its first game on November 1, 1946, when the Toronto Huskies hosted the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens. The BAA and the National Basketball League agreed to merge on August 3, 1949, creating the National Basketball Association.
2.Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169-147 win over the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962, at the Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
3.The 24-second shot clock arrived for the 1954-55 season, championed by Syracuse Nationals owner Danny Biasone. He reached the number by dividing the 2,880 seconds of a 48-minute game by 120, the shots he counted two teams taking in a typical game.
4.Bill Russell won 11 NBA championships in his 13 seasons with the Boston Celtics, the last two (1968 and 1969) as player-coach. In 2009 the league renamed the NBA Finals MVP award in his honor.
5.Boston's Chris Ford is credited with the first three-point basket in NBA history, made in the Celtics' season opener against the Houston Rockets on October 12, 1979, the season the league adopted the three-point line.

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