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On This Date in Sports August 11, 1949: The Great Basketball Merger

The National Basketball Association is born from the merger of the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America. The BAA had just completed its third season and was based in larger cities, while the NBL was created 12 years earlier in small markets as an industrial league. Th

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On This Date in Sports August 11, 1949: The Great Basketball Merger

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