Basketball's First Dynasty

April 23, 1950

On April 23, 1950 began the first basketball dynasty. In front of a crowd of 9,812 people, the largest the N.B.A. had seen thus far, the Minneapolis Lakers took on the Syracuse Nationals for the championship title. The seven game series ended with the Lakers taking the final game over Syracuse, 110 - 95 (Series 4-2) making that the eighth time in the season to hit the century mark.
That was the first championship game of the new N.B.A. featuring players like George Mikan, which, attributed to why the lane was changed from 6 feet to 12 feet to keep "big-man" players farther from the basket.