{"id":2844,"date":"2009-08-03T12:43:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T17:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2012-04-23T20:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T01:04:50","slug":"happy-birthday-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2844","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to shock my coworkers by blogging about sports! I just like to keep them guessing sometimes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/basketball.jpeg\" alt=\"image of basketball and hoop\" class=\"alignright\" \/>On August 3, 1949, the Basketball Association of America and National Basketball League merged to form the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nba.com\/history\/\">National Basketball Association<\/a> (NBA). You can read more about it on both the NBA&#8217;s web site and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&amp;id=57219\">History Channel&#8217;s web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Andersen Library also has materials on the history of basketball (and sports in general) if you&#8217;d like to read more about it. A search of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wtwlib.wisconsin.edu\/\">Library Catalog<\/a> would find titles such as <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=OGg_GsKFd-UC&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>They cleared the lane: The NBA\u2019s Black pioneers<\/em><\/a> (3rd-floor Main Collection, GV885.7 .T46 2002) and <em>A Century of women\u2019s basketball: From frailty to final four<\/em> (3rd-floor Main Collection, GV886 .C45 1991). <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=TMoUAQAAIAAJ&amp;source=gbs_ViewAPI\"><em>Encyclopedia of world sport: From ancient times to the present<\/em><\/a> (2nd-floor Reference Collection, GV567 .E56 1996) has information on the Basketball Association of America, National Basketball League, National Basketball Association, and the National Wheelchair Basketball Association.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uww.edu\/askwi\/askwi.html\">ask a librarian<\/a> for assistance with finding materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am going to shock my coworkers by blogging about sports! I just like to keep them guessing sometimes. On August 3, 1949, the Basketball Association of America and National Basketball League merged to form the National Basketball Association (NBA). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/2844\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,36],"tags":[875,2127,178,231,658],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-library","category-around-the-world","tag-anniversaries","tag-basketball","tag-books","tag-history","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9632,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/9632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}