October 30
From Hoopedia
- 1915 - Ben Carnevale, the Hall of Fame coach who molded the Naval Academy into a basketball force despite a limit on height, is born in Raritan, New Jersey.
The first 24-Second Clock
- 1954 - The 24-second clock (right) is used in an NBA game for the first time in Rochester, New York. The host Royals beat the Boston Celtics 98-95.
- 1993 - In the first-ever NBA pre-season game in Puerto Rico, the Miami Heat defeated the Denver Nuggets, 109-103, before a sold-out crowd at San Juan's Roberto Clemente Coliseum.
- 1996 - The WNBA announces the locations of the eight teams that would compete in the WNBA's inaugural season -- Charlotte, Cleveland, Houston and New York in the Eastern Conference and Los Angeles, Phoenix, Sacramento and Utah in the Western Conference.
- 2001 - John Stockton steps onto the floor with the Utah Jazz on Opening Night, beginning his 18th season with the same team, thereby establishing a new record for longest tenure with one NBA franchise.
- 2006 - Ted Ohashi of Cal Berkeley, the first Japanese-American to play varsity basketball at an American university, dies at age 95.
