Danny Biasone & Syracuse Nationals Basketball Team Collection

Le Moyne College - Noreen Reale Falcone Library

Syracuse Nationals Win the 1955 NBA Championship

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Collection Facts

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Dates of Original:

1949 - 1985

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Historical Context

The Danny Biasone Collection is housed in the Tatyana Popović Archives and Special Collections at Le Moyne College. Biasone was the Founder and Vice President of the Syracuse Nationals, or Nats, an NBA team based in Syracuse from 1946-1963 that now exists as the Philadelphia '76ers. Biasone also invented the 24-second shot clock and rule, which drastically changed the game of basketball.
These photographs help illustrate the complex early history of the NBA through the lens of Syracuse Basketball. Basketball and the NBA of the 1950's was rough and tumble, not yet the established and popular sport it is today. The Danny Biasone collection as a whole documents a story of change in the NBA: change on the court, of rules and play style, and change off the court, of race relations and integration in basketball.

Scope of Collection

The collection contains papers, photos, score sheets, and Nats memorabilia.
Digitized here are photographs from the Danny Biasone Collection spanning the years 1948 - 1985.

To see more of the collection, which contains papers, photos, score sheets, and Nats memorabilia, check out Le Moyne College Noreen Reale Falcone Library's Subject Guide on The NBA in Central New York.

To see footage of the Syracuse Nationals and Danny Biasone, check out these select newsreels from Onondaga Historical Association's Onondaga County Local Sports Collection.