March 10

From Hoopedia

• 1940 - The National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball, the forerunner of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), is founded in Kansas City, Missouri.

• 1948 - Austin Carr, the second college player to score 1,000 points in a season and the first pick in the 1971 NBA Draft, is born in Washington, DC.

• 1961 - Wilt Chamberlain (right) of the Philadelphia Warriors becomes the first NBA player to score 3,000 points in a season.

• 1992 - The NBA opens NBA Asia, in Hong Kong, its first office outside North America.

• 2002 - By registering 13 assists in a 95-92 loss to Houston, Utah’s John Stockton pushes his career assist total above 15,000, and becomes the only player in NBA history to reach that plateau.

• 2004 - Richard Hamilton (right) wears his trademark mask for the first time.

• 2004 - Tracy McGrady scores 62, establishing a franchise record as his Orlando Magic breeze past the Washington Wizards, 108-99.

March 10, 2004, the first day Ricard Hamilton wore his trademark mask.