Word: podoloff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unbelievable," cried N.B.A. President Maurice Podoloff, and ordered an investigation into whether the defense was really trying...
...homebred American game of basketball, in fact, owes most of is present gym-packing, crowd-drawing prominence to the popularity of its hot-handed pros. In turn, the pros acknowledge their debt to a roly-poly Russian immigrant named Maurice Podoloff, 66, who barely knew the difference between a pick-off play and a picket fence when he became president of the N.B.A. In ten years Podoloff has led the league out of virtual pauperhood into the promised land of big crowds and bigger bank accounts. He hits the road as often as any of the players...
...Eyed Boss. As a kid on the streets of New Haven, Conn., where his father sold coal, oil and wood from a horse-drawn wagon, Podoloff seldom found time for fun and games. He worked his way through Yale (the 1913 class of Averell Harriman and Cole Porter) by selling tickets for an excursion steamer and playing clarinet in a band, went on to a law degree, and then drifted into real estate. One day he found himself owner of both the New Haven Arena and the ice-hockey team that played there. Soon, with other arena owners...
Today, thanks largely to Maurice Podoloff, every team in the N.B.A. is making money; for five months of work, players draw salaries that range from a rookie's $4,500 to Bob Cousy's better than $20,000. From California to the East Coast, new towns are eager for franchises. Perhaps the surest proof of the N.B.A.'s success and the caliber of its players is that club owners want to expand their league but cannot find on college courts enough good players to match their pros...