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The History of Basketball
In 1953, NBC decided to forego coverage of the NBA Championship. Danny Byzone figured that the best games of basketball had teams scoring 80 or more points each. He started tracking how many shots a team needed to make to score a requisite 80-something points. Each team averaged 60 shots per game and there's two teams. That means 120 shots.
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