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DIED. Maurice Podoloff, 95, Ukrainian-born lawyer and the first president of the National Basketball Association (1949-63) who despite his sketchy knowledge of the game helped to lay the foundation for the professional sport, notably by shifting it out of high school gymnasiums into spacious arenas and by negotiating the league's first TV contract ($3,000, in 1954); in New Haven, Conn...
...Rodgers squared off in a brief scrap that brought hundreds of spectators onto the floor. Once that was over, Rodgers picked a new target: Jim Loscutoff, one of the burliest Celtics of all. Fist fights started so often that the league's roly-poly President Maurice Podoloff slapped fines on five players...
...MAURICE PODOLOFF...
...already doubled last year's total attendance. Each weekend NBC-TV brings the pros' hell-bent skills into 12 million homes across the nation. From its TV contract the N.B.A. makes well over $500,000 and the league is comfortably in the black. Says N.B.A. President Maurice Podoloff, a 5-ft. 3-in. man who looks round and bouncy enough to dribble: "The public certainly likes the game. They come to watch. Believe me, if there's any slackening of interest, we'll find ways of curing it-and in a hurry." Certainly the surest...
Regarding Chicago, NBA President Maurice Podoloff said today in New York that present plans are to staff the team with players on a poll basis. Each of the eight other NBA clubs would put three players into the poll, from which Chicago could choose a maximum of one from each team...