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  • @spookyghostwriter3110
    @spookyghostwriter3110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +347

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

  • @qwertyzxcvbn3174
    @qwertyzxcvbn3174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +81

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

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  • @hub3rty
    @hub3rty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +475

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

    • @MrSuperman957
      @MrSuperman957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      LMAO. Facts

    • @spookyghostwriter3110
      @spookyghostwriter3110 3 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      The home team was playing in what is basically the mecca of hockey at the time, during a period of great success. The local papers probably had some patriotic favour too since basketball was invented by a Canadian anyhow.

    • @MrGenexxx
      @MrGenexxx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      Cause it never happened. Kobe's 81 did happen. We have the footage.

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      cuz no one knew wilt was going to score 100 points

    • @retrocysper3709
      @retrocysper3709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Because the losing team doesn't wanna get very embarrassed so they had to bury it as hard as they can lol

  • @retrocysper3709
    @retrocysper3709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    0:58 LMAO that player model! XD

  • @willbowden6897
    @willbowden6897 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    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

    • @garyr.9160
      @garyr.9160 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Exactly correct. Its inaccurate to call the NBA when it wasn't. First year of the NBA season was 1950-1951.

    • @b1g_dr3w
      @b1g_dr3w 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I knew that

    • @codygooch510
      @codygooch510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@b1g_dr3w 🧢

    • @b1g_dr3w
      @b1g_dr3w 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@codygooch510 I did know that, I been knew that

    • @carlosestrada2342
      @carlosestrada2342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@b1g_dr3w sure kid .

  • @laurentbfree
    @laurentbfree ปีที่แล้ว +7

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

  • @august6281
    @august6281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    00:34 that's a nice play

  • @MichelePonte
    @MichelePonte 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    this video is fascinating

  • @c.a.g.3130
    @c.a.g.3130 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    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.

  • @Insanitydesigns
    @Insanitydesigns 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    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.

    • @mangubatdarwin1053
      @mangubatdarwin1053 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      hahaha

    • @igot5onit423
      @igot5onit423 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      This was the opening day of the league.. dude got that 100 vs a no body in a city that people can't remember.. They didn't have the money to Televise all the games back then.

    • @clarencecompton9821
      @clarencecompton9821 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@igot5onit423 it's still hard to get 100 points though, even if it's aganist ''no body'

    • @timpete78
      @timpete78 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It is a s shame that we don't have it. But it's not some kind of conspiracy. They just didn't know.

    • @TheIcemanthomas
      @TheIcemanthomas ปีที่แล้ว

      @@igot5onit423y’all be speaking so confidently to be wrong

  • @2ndHandBoyfriend
    @2ndHandBoyfriend 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

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

  • @datsapaddlin
    @datsapaddlin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

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

    • @hipking23
      @hipking23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Lol 😂

    • @retrocysper3709
      @retrocysper3709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Just like everyone who plays Basketball in mom's backyard.

    • @monique_pryce
      @monique_pryce 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      “Wise guys” 😂😂😂

    • @hue59
      @hue59 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A lot of them had regular day jobs, there wasn’t much pay for being a professional basketball player at this time, contracts weren’t very high until the early-mid 80s

  • @StephenHSmith-mn4iq
    @StephenHSmith-mn4iq 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

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

  • @riverofcustard5027
    @riverofcustard5027 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I bet Udonis Haslem was at the bench

  • @tonygill9329
    @tonygill9329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    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.

    • @GuitarReader
      @GuitarReader 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It was probably from a Knicks documentary later shown on ESPN.

  • @harlorformula8516
    @harlorformula8516 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

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

  • @ey-oy4wt
    @ey-oy4wt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

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

  • @nathanpapichulo5010
    @nathanpapichulo5010 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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

  • @b1g_dr3w
    @b1g_dr3w 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

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

  • @benleohollis
    @benleohollis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No one is talking about the knee guards they used to wear?! 00:43

    • @GuitarReader
      @GuitarReader 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      they are

  • @chrismark5099
    @chrismark5099 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    1946: No Blacks Allowed
    2021: Nothing But Africans

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      ngl this made me chuckle

    • @AJoaquin305
      @AJoaquin305 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      luka, Joker, tyler herro, sabonis, Caruso, Love, Porzingus, Rubio, Dragic, Lopez, come on. Nothing But?

    • @deflategate1297
      @deflategate1297 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They were sacred all this time

    • @theobuniel9643
      @theobuniel9643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@AJoaquin305 Sure, but people of African descent (whether they're Black Americans, Afro-Caribbeans, or Africans themselves) still comprise 80% of the NBA's player base, and that includes people of *partial* African descent like Steph Curry and Zach Lavine.

    • @Aj_Cartier
      @Aj_Cartier 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ⁠​⁠​⁠@@theobuniel9643What are you arguing?
      ”Nothing but” means 100% not 80. Which is also wrong because it’s closer to 70% btw. Why does it bother y’all so much anyway is there a problem with that?
      It was never “nothing but” blacks and never will be because it’s stupid boring and racist to exclude every race but one in sports where skill is all that matters. White men would never let that happen anyway they were the only ones that were allowed do that back then😂 NBA, MLB ETC.
      It was quite literally “nothing but” white men for years until they let in a Japanese player, then a black man(who they cut in training camp) and never let play then another couple more years before you saw a colored man (who was still half white i assume because fully black was still too scary) play.

  • @boris2997
    @boris2997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The New York KNICKS scored the first 🏀 basket and win in NBA history 🙌 . We're here We're here KNICKS 🔥 🔥 🔥

  • @willread8376
    @willread8376 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

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

  • @rbermea
    @rbermea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Are the Toronto Raptors gonna wear those old school colored unis for tonight's game to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the NBA's first ever game? They're playing against the Knicks, of course.

  • @pabloandrade4541
    @pabloandrade4541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Little rays of sunshine 🌞

  • @Randolph_
    @Randolph_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @rubix187
    @rubix187 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    They didn’t let no brothers play on the teams?

    • @rbermea
      @rbermea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      First guy to break the NBA's color barrier was Earl Lloyd in 1953.

    • @qwertyzxcvbn3174
      @qwertyzxcvbn3174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Nope this was in the 40s

    • @raptorfromthe6ix833
      @raptorfromthe6ix833 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      did u forget segregation

    • @deez9805
      @deez9805 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rbermea Earl Lloyd, chuck Cooper, nat Clifton, to be exact

    • @theobuniel9643
      @theobuniel9643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@rbermea Correction: Earl Lloyd was the first BLACK NBA player, but he wasn't the first to break the color barrier. That belongs to Wataru "Wat" Misaka, a Japanese American player who played for the Knicks in 1947.

  • @marcinna8553
    @marcinna8553 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't think any of this is actual footage of the first game. The title is a bit misleading. This is generic footage of basketball played during this era, so technically they can say "with actual footage". They just don't say actual footage of what.

  • @justinnamuco9096
    @justinnamuco9096 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How could they amass such a big audience?

  • @CRAZYROME
    @CRAZYROME ปีที่แล้ว

    Them players looked good too

  • @jaezone3400
    @jaezone3400 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I can see micheal jordan getting in a Time Machine, going back to that time period bragging he can beat anybody, putting bets…winning… brotha won’t make it back haha

    • @igot5onit423
      @igot5onit423 ปีที่แล้ว

      What you said was not funny in the slightest..
      You should have said something more along the lines of him watching this clip made it personal He's in the gym as we speak..
      some variant of that would have been funnier.. Not Trying to criticize but just give pointers.. now go out there and make yourself proud

  • @Getdown8319
    @Getdown8319 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Funny people say wilts 100 point game never happened, like the other teams players and coaches corroborated with wilt to make up some madness and humiliate themselves in the process. None of wilt teammates ever came out and said it was fake no one. No people in the stands came out years later to say it wasn’t real.

  • @ceasarnunez5652
    @ceasarnunez5652 ปีที่แล้ว

    Better chemistry than the James harden clippers

  • @SuperSaiyan-100
    @SuperSaiyan-100 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    They got video of the first nba game, but don’t got video when Wilt scored 100 points 💀💀💀💀💀💀

  • @joshuaj1442
    @joshuaj1442 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imagine if those spectators were here now

  • @pixlzyt
    @pixlzyt 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The league started about 75 years and 1 day before my 13th birthday. Now I'm about to be 14 and it's about to be 76 years old.

  • @Zipfei_Kloatscher
    @Zipfei_Kloatscher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's not that hard to get footage from the 1940's. Would have been a little sensation if there were some from 1896...

    • @peterp3078
      @peterp3078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In Canada the government (CBC) placed dishes across the country (the largest communication system in the world before satellites). It enabled all Canadians to watch TV including Hockey Night In Canada (and Newfoundland) and games like this.

    • @Zipfei_Kloatscher
      @Zipfei_Kloatscher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@peterp3078
      OK. 😄👍🏻

    • @JStarStar00
      @JStarStar00 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Actually it is pretty hard to get game footage from the 1940s, hardly any exists.

  • @NaijaLFCTV
    @NaijaLFCTV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    No footage of Wilt’s 100 points though?

    • @NebraskaGonvilleJones
      @NebraskaGonvilleJones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      No there isn’t. What’s your point?

    • @LH-ew5wx
      @LH-ew5wx 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@NebraskaGonvilleJones his point is that we have footage of the very first NBA game, yet no footage of probably the best performance by a player, ever

    • @NebraskaGonvilleJones
      @NebraskaGonvilleJones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@LH-ew5wx What a dense application of logic you are using (or not so it would seem). Wilts 100 point game was in 1962. At the time the only recordings of a game would have been through television rights to do so. This was an expensive exercise and in this particular year the contract was with a station called Sports Network Incorporated (they only had the contract for two seasons before going belly up) Ratings and the league at the time we’re very small, only two games that season we’re televised. That particular regular season game was played at a ‘neutral’ stadium in Pennsylvania (only half full) as Philly was in the transition to Golden State.
      The better question would be, using understanding of the time; “why would there have been ‘footage’ of the game”?
      It is completely understandable why the inaugural game of a brand new league with aspirations has game footage, it was an occasion. Likewise this 100 point game was anything but.

  • @g.shumway5925
    @g.shumway5925 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hope they stopped the game after that first shot was made to honor the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.

  • @thebiggestbrookmonkfan
    @thebiggestbrookmonkfan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Last time I check you could not dribble with the first ball

  • @usieff4866
    @usieff4866 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have to point this out, they were all white in the nba now black💀

  • @rickyclark8648
    @rickyclark8648 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Seeing no dislikes are FALTERING

    • @shatoshi331
      @shatoshi331 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      there is already one

    • @rickyclark8648
      @rickyclark8648 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shatoshi331 why I feel like you did it😭😭

    • @AJoaquin305
      @AJoaquin305 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      youtube does not show number of dislikes anymore

  • @whoisniilante
    @whoisniilante 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How is there footage of this but not Wilt's 100pt game? The most dominant player in the sport and everyone left their cameras at home?

  • @master-kq3nw
    @master-kq3nw ปีที่แล้ว

    1 game in toronto

  • @SkinnySweatyMan
    @SkinnySweatyMan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Big shout out to Stephen A. Smith for that time he disrespected the Raptors, It's as if he didn't know.
    Great journalist.

  • @nyc7187
    @nyc7187 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    But no footage of wilts...nvmnd

  • @cjvaye99
    @cjvaye99 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    the knicks have to have to worst name in all of sports knickerbockers are a style of pants settlers wore when they came to the new world lmao. nobody says anything but imagine if there was a team called the Jeans or the Cargo pants. that's what the Knicks are LOL

  • @Brax-xm6ic
    @Brax-xm6ic 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Better back then lmao

  • @WinstonNewYork
    @WinstonNewYork ปีที่แล้ว

    Knicks with the first win! . . . And hasn't since.

  • @juliusdeloach
    @juliusdeloach 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The basketballs also weren't that big and weren't that bouncy

    • @JStarStar00
      @JStarStar00 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The basketballs were pretty much the same size as now but they were not machine made so they were lumpy and bounce erratically.

  • @shmeepp
    @shmeepp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I’m the first one to comment on the first nba game 💙

    • @josephmontalvo1438
      @josephmontalvo1438 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆 hopefully there talk about it in the future

    • @shmeepp
      @shmeepp 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@josephmontalvo1438 right🤣🤣

  • @mr.a-maracaeagle7323
    @mr.a-maracaeagle7323 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dribbling was no even a thing in the first game and i saw dribbles

  • @Redzone_prodz_goated
    @Redzone_prodz_goated ปีที่แล้ว

    Which one is LeBron James

  • @lucasgaming-r2h
    @lucasgaming-r2h 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    just started watching basketball when does this lebron mf show up tho

  • @gregmartin9390
    @gregmartin9390 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting how 4 Jews EARNED their way to the NBA in the beginning. I wonder if Ye has a problem with them too.

  • @TakeOne-c3n
    @TakeOne-c3n 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    when is lebron coming

  • @pjmac550355
    @pjmac550355 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every NBA player were little Jewish dudes

  • @MurdaMar
    @MurdaMar 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Bro said dude only scored because he wasn’t guarding him. None of y’all would’ve scored if we were allowed to play then 😅

    • @DJ-ov2it
      @DJ-ov2it 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      but then you culturally appropriated basketball from white people.

  • @JoshDavionOfficial
    @JoshDavionOfficial ปีที่แล้ว

    116th Commented 💙

  • @MB-sc3mm
    @MB-sc3mm 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dude nba is so boring what episode does it get interesting

  • @ΓιάννηςΧΔ-γ7γ
    @ΓιάννηςΧΔ-γ7γ ปีที่แล้ว

    Ok, where are all the black players?

  • @maheshetwaroo22
    @maheshetwaroo22 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Second

  • @kaizenking8841
    @kaizenking8841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Basketball invented for a black people thanks Mr. Naismith

    • @masongreen1371
      @masongreen1371 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      What?

    • @pranavkottur9031
      @pranavkottur9031 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@masongreen1371 fr. What??

    • @josephmontalvo1438
      @josephmontalvo1438 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Kaizen king that the dumbest thing I saw somebody wrote

    • @NebraskaGonvilleJones
      @NebraskaGonvilleJones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      What are you talking about mate? You don’t make sense 🤨

    • @peterp3078
      @peterp3078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      As I used to tell by friends when I lived in Colorado in the sixties -- Please learn the history of your country., That would include sports.

  • @otakufreak2297
    @otakufreak2297 ปีที่แล้ว

    Many white mens