NYK70, 1946: Knicks Head to Toronto to Play First Game in Franchise History

Seventy years ago this October, a group of athletes from New York City drove upstate to cross the border into Toronto. The occasion: the first-ever regular season game in the Basketball Association of America, the short-lived precursor to the NBA. En route to Toronto, the first squad of the New York Knickerbockers was stopped at the border by a skeptical customs inspector. Who were these self-proclaimed professional athletes with names like Schectman, Kaplowitz, Hertzberg and Militzok? He’d heard of the New York Rangers, but not the Knicks.

First NBA game was played 75 years ago today in Toronto

NYK70 1946: Knicks Head to Toronto to Play First Game in Franchise History

First NBA game was played 75 years ago today in Toronto

The Sports Wire on X: #OnThisDay 🏀 The first game in NBA history! 🏢 On November 1, 1946, New York Knickerbockers beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in

The Sports Wire on X: #OnThisDay 🏀 The first game in NBA history! 🏢 On November 1, 1946, New York Knickerbockers beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in

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The Sports Wire on X: #OnThisDay 🏀 The first game in NBA history! 🏢 On November 1, 1946, New York Knickerbockers beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto in

ON THIS DAY (Nov. 1, 1946) the FIRST NBA game took place in TORONTO as the New York Knicks took on the Toronto Huskies in front of 7,090 fans! 🇨🇦 #NBA75

ON THIS DAY (Nov. 1, 1946) the FIRST NBA game took place in TORONTO as the New York Knicks took on the Toronto Huskies in front of 7,090 fans! 🇨🇦 Fans

Mitchell & Ness - On this day in 1946, the first ever @nba

First NBA game played, November 1, 1946

NYK70, 1946: Knicks Head to Toronto to Play First Game in Franchise History

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