Troy's Tuesday Tie Trivia #5

Welcome to Troy’s Tuesday Tie Trivia. This feature was inspired by an incredible deal I got on ties at a local indoor flea market.

You can read all about it here.

I got a little bit of razzing last week, for posting my Valentine's Day tie in a romantic setting. You can see that post, and the related comments here.

I promised to do a more "Manly" Tie this week. So, here we go. All of us know what last Sunday was right?
That day that we look forward to all year. A chance to spend some time with our true love.
That's right it was the NBA All Stars game. And in honor of that Game, this weeks tie is my NBA Tie:



This tie was designed and Copyrighted in 1994, and has the team logos from that year.



Many of the team logos are different now some of the team names have changed, and a few new teams have been added.




My tie, made by Surrey is an officially licensed NBA Product, and still has the NBA tags attached:






I found a couple of these for sale on Ebay and Bonanzle. With Shipping, one would cost somewhere around $17-20

Mine was at a thrift store. The price?



And now for some NBA Trivia.

Dr. James Naismith, is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ontario, Canada. Basketball was born in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts. The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals.

Originally Dr. Naismith had 13 rules, today, the official rule book is 70 pages long.



The NBA or National Basketball Association was founded in 1946.

The New York Knicks defeated the Toronto Huskies 68-66 in the very first NBA game on November 1, 1946. Any fan taller than Toronto center George Nostrand (6'8") got free admission.



In 1996, to mark their 50th anniversary, the NBA compiled a list of the 50 all-time greatest players. One person on that list, Shaquille O'Neal is still active today.

Since the first game, in 1951, the All-Star game has matched the best players (based on fan and coach ballots) from the Eastern Conference against those from the Western Conference.


The 2010 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 14, 2010, in Arlington Texas. NBA officials expected a crowd of 90,000 which would be the most people ever to attend a basketball game.

Expectations were exceeded when 108,713 people saw the Eastern Conference defeat the Wesern Conference141-139.

I will be linking this Manly Post to


2nd Time Around Tuesday at A Picture is Worth 1000 Words

And

Color Carnival
I apologize in advance to any anonymous posters. Because of the large amount of SPAM I was getting, I had to block anonymous comments.

Sorry,


Troy