saint0917
November 23rd, 2009, 11:54 PM
11/22/50:
Putting the game into a deep freeze to offset the dominance of seven-foot center George Mikan, the Fort Wayne Pistons get a basket by rookie Larry Foust with six seconds to go and beat the Minneapolis Lakers by the ridiculously low score of 19-18. The loss snaps a 29-game home-court winning streak for the Lakers and only eight field goals are made in the entire game, four by each team. Paying customers to the still fledgling NBA were clearly not interested in buying tickets to watch players just stand around all night, so it’s amazing that the modern-day 24-second clock will not be introduced until the 1954-55 season, eliminating such suffocating stall tactics like those employed by the Pistons tonight.
B I R T H D A Y S
Lew Burdette b. 1926
Yvan Cournoyer b. 1943
Billie Jean King b. 1943
Greg Luzinski b. 1950
Boris Becker b. 1967
Putting the game into a deep freeze to offset the dominance of seven-foot center George Mikan, the Fort Wayne Pistons get a basket by rookie Larry Foust with six seconds to go and beat the Minneapolis Lakers by the ridiculously low score of 19-18. The loss snaps a 29-game home-court winning streak for the Lakers and only eight field goals are made in the entire game, four by each team. Paying customers to the still fledgling NBA were clearly not interested in buying tickets to watch players just stand around all night, so it’s amazing that the modern-day 24-second clock will not be introduced until the 1954-55 season, eliminating such suffocating stall tactics like those employed by the Pistons tonight.
B I R T H D A Y S
Lew Burdette b. 1926
Yvan Cournoyer b. 1943
Billie Jean King b. 1943
Greg Luzinski b. 1950
Boris Becker b. 1967