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The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional men's basketball league, consisting of 30 teams in North America—29 in the United States and one in Canada.The NBA was founded in New York City on June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). [1]
Relocation of professional sports teams occurs when a team owner moves a team, generally from one metropolitan area to another, but occasionally between municipalities in the same conurbation. The practice is most common in North America, where a league franchise system is used and the teams are overwhelmingly privately owned. Owners who move a ...
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The team originally planned to play the 1997 and 1998 seasons in Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis before moving to Nashville. However, due to poor attendance, the team moved to Nashville in 1998, playing in Vanderbilt University's stadium. The team was renamed as the Tennessee Titans in 1999, when its new stadium was opened.
The original Bullets were the last defunct team to leave the NBA, having folded during the 1954–55 season, and are the only defunct team to have won an NBA championship. The Chicago Stags, the Indianapolis Olympians, the Cleveland Rebels, the Packers, and the Red Skins qualified for the playoffs in every year they were active in the league.
[33] [34] In 2005, one of Canada's two Major League Baseball teams (the Montreal Expos) relocated to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals. [35] The failure of the Vancouver franchise was part of the reason the NBA changed the expansion drafting rules following the return of Charlotte to the league as the Bobcats in 2004. The ...
1974–75 NBA teams Eastern Western; Atlantic: Central: Midwest: Pacific: Boston Celtics: Atlanta Hawks: Chicago Bulls: Golden State Warriors: Buffalo Braves: Cleveland Cavaliers: Detroit Pistons: Los Angeles Lakers: New York Knicks: Houston Rockets: Kansas City–Omaha Kings: Phoenix Suns: Philadelphia 76ers: New Orleans Jazz* Milwaukee Bucks ...
The Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City was a successful effort by the owners of the Seattle SuperSonics to move the National Basketball Association (NBA) team from Seattle, Washington, to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The team, the third NBA franchise to move in the 2000s, began play as the Oklahoma City Thunder in the 2008–09 NBA season.