NBA Have you ever wanted to play in the NBA? Or have you wondered how so many famous Basketball players gave this league popularity? Have you also ever wondered how they changed their name from BAA to NBA. Well, I’m going to hopefully answer all your questions in this essay on the NBA. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association) The BAA was founded in 1946. This league is very fierce in it’s competition because of it 's long term rivalries and all star one-on-one. Examples like George Mikan and Bob Davies. These two were fierce competitors in their own leagues. These two players gave the ABA a great deal of money and popularity. (http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/m/mikange01.html) (http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/d/daviebo01.html) …show more content…
In the NBA’s 1990’s some great players really helped make the NBA. Ex. Michael Jordan and Shaquille O’ Neal. (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/404512/National-Basketball-Association-NBA) By 2010 the league started to go down in fans. The main reason: Racism. White people dislike the game more than ever because of so many white superstars leaving the game. Ex. Larry Bird and John Stockton. About 10% of NBA players are white. This means that an averaging around 238 fans do not attend games as they used to in the past. All of this causes many racist outbursts and less popularity involved in the game. (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/02/17/nba-all-star-game-white-men-cant-root.html) In the first paragraph I explained how one of the leagues that merged to form the NBA. In the second paragraph I explained how the NBA was formed and what gave it it’s popularity. In the third paragraph I explained how the NBA started to lose popularity and used many facts to explain why. In conclusion this is how the NBA came to