In 1949, the Basketball Association of America merged with the National Basketball League to become the National Basketball Association. The NBA has been the dominant professional basketball ...

A Purdue guard filling huge shoes and a star transfer for Memphis are also among those honored on our midseason team.

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.