Basketball Oddities and Facts

  Today we are going to take a look at some of the more interesting games in Basketball history. These games are not all going to be the high scoring games that are frequently discussed on this blog, we are going to look at some of the other records that could be set during the course of a game.

  Today we start at February 17, 1955 with the New York Knicks-Fort Wayne Pistons game at Miami Beach, FL. The Knicks won the game 93-86, the interesting thing here was that both clubs registered only 6 assists in the game!!

  Two years later at the Minneapolis Auditorium in the game between the Lakers and the Saint Louis Hawks things got real ugly. To say a couple people got in foul trouble would be an understatement. If the object of the game was to have one of your players foul out, then the Lakers would have won the game by a score of 5-4. Thats right 9 players in all fouled out of the game!! The Lakers attempted 69 of the games 136 free throw attempts. Oh, yeah the Hawks won the game where it counted by a score of 118-115.

  The Lakers-Hawks game was exactly 9 years to the day before the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened at Springfield, Massachusetts. This event in 1968 was nine years after the first class of inductees were announced. Today 295 people and 8 teams are members of the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you noticed I said 295 people, not 295 men. Many of the Hall of Famers are women who contributed to the game just as much as the men have.

  We close today with the Boston Celtics-Vancouver Grizzlies game at the GM Place in Vancouver that was played on February 17, 1999. This game went to triple overtime before the Celtics took a 131-129 win over the home club.

  Today I am starting a new feature on this blog in an effort to get readers to spend a little more time on the site and encourage you to comeback more often. This feature will be at the end of each of the daily blogs, it will be the daily trivia question. Some of the answers will be found in the blogs archives, some of the answers will found on the companion website, some of the answers will be found on other websites. If you think that your website may contain some great information that I could use, please let me know.

  Here is todays question: 10 ballparks that have hosted at least 15 Major League Baseball games sit an altitude of 10 feet or less, which one of the 10 parks has hosted the most Major League Games? I will reveal the answer in tomorrows daily blog which will take a look at three soccer games.