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After completing its 1960 season, the National Basketball Association (NBA) consisted of teams located in such cities of metropolitan areas in the east as Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Syracuse, and in the west as Cincinnati, Detroit, Los Angeles, and St. Louis. Given that geographic distribution, NBA officials anticipated and shrewdly recognized that some other domestic markets were available for exploitation as potentially attractive sites for new professional basketball teams. When Major League Baseball (MLB) and the National Football League (NFL) and National Hockey League (NHL) expanded in size, the NBA became more ambitious, businesslike, and risky by gradually invading different sports markets across the United States (US) and two in Canada.
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Expansions in MLB, NFL, and NHL are, respectively, covered in Frank P. Jozsa Jr.’s Major League Baseball Expansions and Relocations: A History, 1876–2008 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009); National Football League Strategies: Business Expansions, Relocations, and Mergers (New York, NY: Springer, 2014); Hockey Business: NHL Franchises, Markets, and Strategies, an unpublished manuscript at Pfeiffer University in Misenheimer, North Carolina, 2010.
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For the NBA’s expansion history, see Frank P. Jozsa Jr., The National Basketball Association: Business, Organization and Strategy (Singapore: World Scientific, 2011), 21–33; Frank P. Jozsa Jr. and John J. Guthrie Jr., Relocating Teams and Expanding Leagues in Professional Sports: How the Major Leagues Respond to Market Conditions (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1999); James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992); and Kenneth L. Shropshire, The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).
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The information about franchise owners and their NBA teams’ attendances, coaches, performances, players, regular seasons, and postseasons are in such readings as “Teams” at http://www.basketball-reference.com cited 5 February 2014, “NBA Teams Websites” at http://www.nba.com cited 5 February 2014, and “Rodney Fort’s Sports Business Data” at https://sites.google.com cited 5 February 2014.
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Recent financial data about the Chicago Bulls, Milwaukee Bucks, Phoenix Suns, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail Blazers, and other NBA franchises were in Kurt Badenhausen, Mike Ozanian, and Christina Settimi, “NBA Team Values: The Business of Basketball” at http://www.forbes.com cited 6 February 2014.
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An early study of NBA expansion teams appears in Frank P. Jozsa Jr., “An Economic Analysis of Franchise Relocation and League Expansion in Professional Team Sports, 1950–1975,” Ph.D. diss., Georgia State University, 1977. Other sources with information are online such as “Basketball History” at http://www.history-of-basketball.com cited 20 September 2005; “History of Basketball” at http://www.library.think.quest.org cited 24 August 2009; “National Basketball Association (NBA) History” at http://www.rauzulustreet.com cited 12 August 2005; “NBA Growth Timetable” at http://www.basketball.com cited 17 September 2005; “Professional Basketball Leagues” at http://apbr.org cited 27 August 2009. Current literature includes the Official NBA Guide: 2013–14 Edition (New York, NY: NBA Properties, 2013), and Official NBA Register: 2013–14 Edition (New York, NY: NBA Properties, 2013).
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Jozsa, F.P. (2015). Before 1976 Season. In: National Basketball Association Strategies. SpringerBriefs in Economics, vol 84. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10058-6_2
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