The 2011 National Basketball Association Champions were the western conference Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks played against the eastern conference Miami Heat. The championship that the Dallas Mavericks won was the first ever NBA Championship for the team.
The Philadelphia Warriors are on record as the first NBA Champions in 1947.
first there were two conferences, the NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION, and the AMERICAN BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION. But the NBA was better, so they merged into just the NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION.
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Oregon ducks won the first National Championship in 1939.
The first league was founded in 1894 with six teams in it and the Trenton Nationals were the first champions but the original Celtics are considered to be "the father of modern basketball"
The first national basketball tournament was the National Invitational Tournament, the NIT. It preceded the start of the NCAA tourney. The first year of the NCAA Basketball Tournament was 1939.
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USA, besause Lithuania is first.
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