November 16
From Hoopedia
- 1946 - Seven-time NBA All-Star Jo Jo White is born in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1962 - (Right) Wilt Chamberlain of the San Francisco Warriors scores 73 points against the New York Knicks.
- 1989 - Roy Tarpley of the Dallas Mavericks is suspended in the middle of the 1988-89 campaign for 49 games for violating the league's substance abuse policy. It would be the first of several suspensions and bans.
- 2000 - The D-League tips off its inaugural season, as the Greenville Groove host the North Charleston Lowgators at the BI-LO Center in Greenville, South Carolina.
