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NBA
NBA (National Basketball Association) - American professional basketball league, the most prestigious basketball league of the world. In the competition involving teams from the USA and one from Canada.
History
League was founded in New York, June 6, 1946 as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The name of the National Basketball Association has taken in the autumn 1949 after the merger with the rival National Basketball League. The first BAA teams to New York Knickerbockers, Boston Celtics, Philadelphia Warriors, Providence Steamrollers, Washington Capitols, Toronto Huskies, Pittsburgh Ironmen, Chicago Stags, Detroit Falcons, St.. Louis Bombers and Cleveland Rebels
The first NBA champion, in 1947, r, is the team the Philadelphia Warriors.
Competition
The teams are divided into two conferences: the Eastern and Western Europe. Conferences are divided in turn into three divisions each.
Competition consists of the regular season and the club competitions (the playoffs).
In the regular season teams from the same division competitions with each other after 4 matches (16 games), after 3 or 4 teams from other divisions of the same conference (36 games, a total of 52 games within the conference), while the remaining 30 games against teams other conference. In this way, each team plays with each in the main part of the season, "at home" and "Away." The downside is that with remote teams from other conferences takes place every year, almost two times more games than teams from their own division, which causes fatigue, travel (30 to 16 games.)
The playoffs are chosen first individual conference champions. The top eight teams duels are seeded winners of each division and the team with the best of the remaining balance of victories. Winners of the conference finals meet each other in the finals of the league. In heads up the play-off game winning streak to four.
Poles
Since the 2007-2008 season in the NBA is Marcin Gortat, who signed a two-year contract with the Orlando Magic for the amount of $ 1.1 million. Gortat was selected in the draft with the 57th 2005 number by the Phoenix Suns and immediately handed over to Orlando. The composition of the Magic appeared only in 2007 and the first game played March 1, 2008 In the spring he played eight matches in the playoffs. In December 2008, the first of the Poles went out onto the pitch in the top five of his team. Marcin Gortat is not the primary player of his team, mostly falls on the pitch as a substitute for Dwight Howard. On average, includes about 12 minutes of the match, scoring about 3 points, 4 rebounds and 1 block. So far (as at 15 April 2010) scored 550 points, 643 rebounds and 124 blocks in 150 games during the regular season (3 times in the top five) and 88 points (from 67.2% efficiency), 84 rebounds and 19 blocks in 32 matches during the play-offs (1 time in the top five). It is the first Pole who played in the NBA Finals in 2009
Before playing in the NBA Gortat two Poles:
* Cezary Trybański - in 2002 signed a contract for 4.8 million dollars from the Memphis Grizzlies - in 2002-2004 played 22 matches in the colors of the Memphis Grizzlies, Phoenix Suns, the New York Knicks, occasionally also in the composition of the Chicago Bulls and Toronto Raptors. He has scored 15 points and scored 15 rebounds.
* Maciej Lampe - elected in 2003 in the second round draft pick from No 30 by the New York Knicks - in the years 2003-2006 he performed in clubs in the Phoenix Suns, New Orleans Hornets and Houston Rockets. He played a total of 65 league matches, scoring 215 points and 142 by placing the collection.
In September 2007 a preliminary contract with the Indiana Pacers also signed Lukasz Obrzut, the season was supposed to receive the minimum rate of 450 thousand. dollars. In October he was released, however. As the 35th draft picks to the NBA in 2003, Simon was chosen Szewczyk, but they have not played in the best league in the world. In addition, he played in the NBA Rubén Volkovysk also having Polish citizenship, but playing for the national team of Argentina. Jeff Nordgaard play in the NBA, but later received Polish citizenship.
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