The North European Basketball League was founded by a player inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in what year?
Šarūnas Marčiulionis Raimondas Šarūnas Marčiulionis (] ) (born June 13, 1964) is a Lithuanian retired professional basketball player. Widely considered as one of the greatest international players ever, he was one of the first Europeans to become a regular in the National Basketball Association (NBA). On August 8, 2014, Marčiulionis was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, and became a member of the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2015.
National Basketball Players Association The National Basketball Players Association (the NBPA) is a labor union that represents basketball players in the National Basketball Association (NBA). It was founded in 1954, making it the oldest trade union of the four major North American professional sports leagues. However, the NBPA did not get recognition by the NBA team owners until ten years later. Its offices are located in the historic Park and Tilford Building in New York City. It was briefly a trade association after dissolving as a union during the 2011 NBA lockout.