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NBA legend dies

Oscar “Ossie” Schectman, the former New York Knicks guard who scored the first basket in NBA history, died on Tuesday. He was 94. Schectman’s son Peter said his dad died of complications from respiratory failure. Schectman scored the opening basket of a game in what was then known as the BAA on November 1, 1946, for the Knicks against the Toronto Huskies.


 

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