• named Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League, then Eastern Professional Basketball League. Professional Basketball League of America (PBLA), 1947–1948...
    36 KB (3,627 words) - 00:35, 2 January 2025
  • The 1946–47 BAA season was the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America. The league launched with 11 teams playing a 60-game schedule...
    11 KB (636 words) - 21:43, 20 October 2024
  • The 1947 BAA Finals was the championship round of playoffs following the inaugural Basketball Association of America (BAA)'s 1946–47 season. The Philadelphia...
    12 KB (529 words) - 18:04, 10 March 2024
  • The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional basketball league in the United States. Established in 1935 as the Midwest Basketball Conference...
    26 KB (1,943 words) - 00:03, 22 December 2024
  • The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was a professional basketball league in North America, founded in 1946. Following its third season, 1948–49...
    40 KB (2,719 words) - 00:29, 22 December 2024
  • Eastern Basketball Association was a professional basketball league based in the United States. The league began in 1946 and was known as the Eastern...
    65 KB (2,989 words) - 20:06, 9 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eastern Pennsylvania Conference
    The Eastern Pennsylvania Conference, known informally as EPC, EPC18, and East Penn Conference, is an athletic conference consisting of 18 large high schools...
    47 KB (3,151 words) - 02:31, 31 December 2024
  • The American Basketball League (ABL) was an early professional basketball league. During six seasons from 1925–26 to 1930–31, the ABL was the first attempt...
    22 KB (2,331 words) - 23:01, 21 December 2024
  • The 1947–48 BAA season was the second season of the Basketball Association of America. The 1948 BAA Playoffs ended with the Baltimore Bullets winning the...
    9 KB (437 words) - 21:44, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League
    The Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League was an athletic conference for men's college basketball, beginning with the 1901–02 season and ending with...
    30 KB (1,633 words) - 20:55, 21 February 2024
  • The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada)...
    139 KB (12,986 words) - 08:04, 31 December 2024
  • The 1947 BAA playoffs was the postseason tournament that followed the inaugural Basketball Association of America 1946–47 season. After its 1948–49 season...
    14 KB (290 words) - 13:51, 24 October 2024
  • Wilkes-Barre Barons (category Basketball teams in Pennsylvania)
    Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League and the American Basketball League. The franchise was one of six original teams in the EPBL, and won the 1946-1947...
    7 KB (327 words) - 22:56, 22 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Atlantic 10 Conference
    founded in 1975 as the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League (ECBL) and began conference play in 1976. At that time, basketball was its only sport. After...
    62 KB (2,591 words) - 06:34, 27 December 2024
  • sports leagues. Football is the most popular sport in Pennsylvania, especially in the Lehigh Valley, Northeastern Pennsylvania, Central Pennsylvania, and...
    60 KB (5,247 words) - 21:32, 25 December 2024
  • Association formed as the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League Fourth European basketball championship, Eurobasket 1946, is won by Czechoslovakia. Slovenia...
    14 KB (1,480 words) - 20:32, 9 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sports in Philadelphia
    1946–47, the inaugural season of the Basketball Association of America (BAA). Following the merger between the BAA and the National Basketball League...
    155 KB (15,023 words) - 15:03, 5 November 2024
  • Scranton Miners (category 1947 establishments in Pennsylvania)
    professional basketball team based in Scranton, Pennsylvania that was a member of the American Basketball League and the Eastern Basketball Association...
    6 KB (426 words) - 22:53, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hazleton, Pennsylvania
    Atlantic League.[citation needed] Hazleton was also home to four franchises in the old Eastern Basketball League, precursor to the Continental Basketball Association:...
    67 KB (6,273 words) - 04:07, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of defunct Pennsylvania sports teams
    Maulers (1984) Philadelphia Bell (1974–1975) Pennsylvania Professional Football League (1946–1949 ) Eastern Division Shamokin Indians Pottsville Maroons...
    13 KB (885 words) - 14:06, 18 February 2024
  • counted as the fourth NBA season as it recognizes the three BAA seasons (1946–47, 1947–48 and 1948–49) as part of its own history, sometimes without comment...
    14 KB (586 words) - 18:27, 14 November 2024
  • York Knicks, 1946–74; enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Lee Joannes: president of the Green Bay Packers, 1930–1947 Red Kellett:...
    487 KB (50,852 words) - 16:55, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
    in 2004. The Match Factory (officially the Pennsylvania Match Company), after standing vacant since 1947, was renovated by the American Philatelic Society...
    27 KB (2,602 words) - 02:31, 14 November 2024
  • sponsor football or basketball Mountain West Conference Northeast Conference Ohio Valley Conference Pac-12 Conference Patriot League Southeastern Conference...
    38 KB (2,256 words) - 22:32, 1 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for List of people from Philadelphia
    sociologist, author, and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Ellen Bass (born 1947), professor, poet, and author Leon Bass (1925–2015), educator...
    94 KB (10,489 words) - 18:23, 29 December 2024
  • professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association. It began as one of six founding teams of the Eastern Professional Basketball League (EPBL)...
    2 KB (107 words) - 01:16, 24 September 2024
  • Duquesne also emerged victorious in the 1976–77 Eastern Collegiate Basketball League (the forerunner to the Eastern Athletic Association, now known as the Atlantic...
    24 KB (1,911 words) - 18:44, 4 December 2024
  • Baltimore Bullets (1944–1954) (category American Basketball League (1925–1955) teams)
    basketball team based in Baltimore. The Bullets competed in the American Basketball League (1944–1947), the Basketball Association of America (1947–1949)...
    18 KB (596 words) - 16:49, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Kingston, Pennsylvania
    Kingston is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located on the western bank of the Susquehanna River opposite Wilkes-Barre...
    29 KB (2,853 words) - 17:43, 13 December 2024
  • Star-Ledger) (b. 1946/1947) Judith G. Garber, 62, diplomat, ambassador to Latvia (2009–2012) and Cyprus (2019–2022) (b. 1961) Darius Morris, 33, basketball player...
    541 KB (43,512 words) - 09:19, 3 January 2025