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March 17, 2004
Boards Chairman
March 17, 2004
By Jeff Faraudo, Staff Writer
FIFTY SEASONS ago, on Dec. 1, 1953, the modern game of basketball was born at San Francisco's Kezar Pavilion.
It wasn't delivered with a 3-point shot or a behind-the-back pass but with a violent swat, the kind no doctor would apply to the backside of a newborn.
Stanford's Hank Luisetti had long before dragged the game from the stone age by introducing the one-handed shot. George Mikan was by then a high-scoring big man in the fledgling NBA.
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