As the league contemplates growth, here's a look at all the franchises in NBA history -- past and present ... Baltimore Bullets (1947-54) Chicago Stags (1946-50) Denver Nuggets (1949-50) Detroit ...

The NBA has played on Christmas Day every year since 1947. It's become one of the most exciting days of the league's annual calendar and among the greatest traditions in American sports.

Playing on Christmas Day has been an NBA tradition as long as the league has been around, with the first Christmas Day game taking place in 1947 when the New York Knicks defeated Providence ...

since their founding at the dawn of the Basketball Association of America (BAA -- the league that would become today's NBA), worn by well over 500 players in the course of Celtics history. To ...