October 24, 1999: He announces salary cuts in the CBA. Kauffman remained the League's legal counsel for two years. The CBA then began binding individual NBA teams to a form contract, permitting those teams to sign CBA players to 10-day contracts. Has your kid's coach helped them through this crisis?Nominate them   for a chance to win $2500! [4] The NBA announced they would adopt a similar model before the 1981–82 season. Because the 1961-63 American Basketball League used a three-point scoring line, the Eastern League added a three-point line for its 1964-65 season. Summer 2000: After 20 years of using the CBA as its developmental league, the NBA announces it will form its own minor-league feeder system, creating the, October 2, 2000: Thomas places the league into a. February 8, 2001: The CBA suspends play midway through the 2000-2001 season. Steve A. Kauffman, currently a basketball agent, succeeded Rudolph as Commissioner in 1975. By the 1967-68 season, the Eastern League lost many of its players when the upstart American Basketball Association formed. - CBA - Basketball CHINA. Although the NBA played exhibition games with the Eastern League during the late 1940s and early 1950s the exhibition games ceased in 1954, when the Eastern League signed several college basketball players involved in point-shaving gambling scandals during their college years (including Jack Molinas, Sherman White, Floyd Layne and Al Roth). Some examples include Nick Van Exel (1993, Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA and Rapid City Thrillers of the CBA),[22][23] Dontonio Wingfield (1994, Seattle SuperSonics and Rapid City Thrillers),[24][25] Stephen Jackson (1997, Phoenix Suns and La Crosse Bobcats),[26][27] Jason Hart (2000, Milwaukee Bucks and Idaho Stampede);[28][29] and several others. This rule (which was designed to encourage drives to the hoop) caused more confusion than scoring, and was quickly abandoned. Over the years it would add franchises in several other Pennsylvania cities, including Williamsport, Scranton, and Sunbury, as well as teams in New Jersey (Trenton, Camden, Asbury Park), Connecticut (New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport), Delaware (Wilmington) and Massachusetts (Springfield). Under the "7-Point System", seven points were awarded each game: three points for winning a game and one point for every quarter a team won. NBA/CBA relations grew tense again in 1982, when the CBA added the Detroit Spirits franchise to their league roster. Shaojie Wang has been their top player, scoring 16.7 points and 6 rebounds per game this season. Even though Ray Scott had left the University of Portland two months after his matriculation, the NBA could not sign Scott to a contract until Scott's class graduated. February 24, 2001: The CBA declares bankruptcy. National Team U20/21. The group bought all of the individually owned franchises of the CBA, in a $10 million acquisition. The CBA's first commissioner was Harry Rudolph (father of NBA referee Mendy Rudolph). They've faced the Bejing Royal Fighters five times before, winning four consecutive times, last losing a meeting in 2017. During the 1980s and 1990s, the NBA's relationship with the CBA grew to the point where dozens of former CBA stars found their way onto NBA rosters, including Tim Legler (Omaha Racers), Mario Elie (Albany Patroons), and John Starks (Cedar Rapids Silver Bullets). Also during this time, the CBA created a series of halftime promotions. The combined-ownership plan was unsuccessful and by 2001, the CBA had declared bankruptcy and ceased operations (folded on February 8, 2001 without managing to complete the 2000–01 season). The CBA, receiving no compensation from the NBA for these signings, filed a lawsuit against the NBA. Sometimes rules adopted by the CBA on an experimental basis later became permanent in that league and were adopted by other levels of basketball as well; others remained unique to the CBA. The NBA would send several players to the Eastern League for extra playing time, and for several seasons two Eastern League teams would play the opening game of a New Year's Eve doubleheader at Madison Square Garden (with the NBA playing the nightcap game). Since the Spirits played in the same city as the NBA's Pistons, the NBA did not renew its year-to-year agreement with the CBA. That would soon lead to the beginning of the end for the CBA. [5], Before the 1984–85 season Ducker announced that the CBA had signed a cable television contract with Black Entertainment Television (BET).[6]. FlashScore.com provides CBA 2020/2021 standings, results, head-to-head stats and odds comparison. In an interesting twist, Lange went on to coach the Philadelphia Spirit in the USBL. .lobar-content p a, .lobar-content p a:link { height: auto !important; color: white !important; background-color:#13aa37 !important; padding:5px 8px !important; margin-left:10px !important; line-height:13px !important; font-size: 13px !important; font-weight: bold !important; text-transform: none !important; } As a result, a winning team would wind up with four to seven points in the standings, while a losing team could collect from zero to three points. November 16, 2001: The first game in the history of the National Basketball Developmental League is played. During the early years of the CBA (when it was known as the EPBL), the league's relationship with the NBA was frosty at best. The Atlanta Krunk Wolverines and Vancouver Dragons deferred their participation until the 2007–2008 season and the Utah Eagles folded on January 25, 2007. During the 1984–85 season, that rule was modified so that victory went to the first team to, During the 1981–82 season, the CBA created a 6 by 5 feet (1.8 m × 1.5 m) "no call box"—an area in front of the baskets in which any contact in the box between offensive and defensive players was to be an automatic defensive foul. In addition to six returning franchises the CBA added three expansion teams – the Oklahoma Cavalry, the Rio Grande Valley Silverados and East Kentucky Miners; the Atlanta Krunk joined the league after sitting out the 2006–07 season. Kauffman served as Commissioner until 1978, when his Deputy Commissioner, Jim Drucker, took the reins. During the 2006-07 season no players were called up from the CBA to the NBA, ending a streak of over 30 seasons of at least one call-up per year. In 1985, the CBA followed with the "Ton-of-Money Free Throw", which featured a prize of 2,000 pounds (910 kg) of pennies ($5,000) if a randomly selected fan could make one free throw. Only the ABA-NBA merger in June 1976 kept the Eastern League alive, as an influx of players from defunct ABA teams joined the league. The salary cap was adjusted to reflect the increased games. The next year, the league featured the "Easy Street Shootout". .lobar-content p a:hover {background-color:#0e852b !important;}

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