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Q: It was the inaugural game of the Basketball Association of America, which became the N.B.A. three years later. 
  
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 Hoping for a respectable turnout, management offered a free ticket to any fan taller than the Huskies’ 6-8 center, George Nostrand. 
  
 The man of the evening, so far as history would go, turned out to be a mere 6-footer: Schectman, the Knicks’ captain. 
  
 “I scored on a two-handed underhand layup,” Schectman told Charley Rosen, the author of “The First Tip-Off” (2008), a history of the N.B.A.’s first season. The shot came a minute or so into the Knicks-Huskies game after he had cut to the basket and taken a bounce pass. 
  
 When Ricky Green of the Utah Jazz scored the 5 millionth N.B.A. point in January 1988, the league, whose records date back to the Basketball Association of America’s founding in 1946, embarked on research to find out who scored the first points and discovered Schectman’s layup. When Ben Gordon of the Detroit Pistons scored the N.B.A.’s 10 millionth point in January 2010, Schectman was remembered once more. 
  
 Schectman scored 11 points in the Knicks’ 68-66 opening-night victory over the Huskies. He averaged 8.1 points a game for the 1946-47 season, making him the third-highest scorer, behind Bud Palmer and Sonny Hertzberg, on a Knicks team that made it to the playoff semifinals. 
  
 By the next fall, the Huskies had gone out of business and Schectman had departed as well, deciding he could best support his family as a salesman in New York’s garment district. 
  
 “I’m just proud,” he put it long afterward, “to have been one of the N.B.A.’s pioneers.” 
  
 Oscar Schectman (everyone called him Ossie) was born on March 30, 1919, in New York City, one of five children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. 
  
 He learned to play basketball at settlement houses and, more informally, by shooting balls through the low rung of a tenement fire-escape ladder. He then played for Samuel J. Tilden High School in Brooklyn. 
  
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 Schectman played for L.I.U. teams that won the National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden in 1939, completing an unbeaten season, and again in 1941, at a time when the N.I.T. was more important than the N.C.A.A. tournament. 
  
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 Playing for Clair Bee, one of college basketball’s most prominent coaches, Schectman was a second-team all-American in 1941 and runner-up as outstanding player in the N.I.T. behind Frankie Baumholtz of Ohio University, whom the Blackbirds defeated for the championship. 
  
 Schectman later joined the Philadelphia Sphas of the American Basketball League, a team once sponsored by the South Philadelphia Hebrew Association, and then became an original Knick. 
  
 His pioneering layup inspired the title of “The First Basket,” a 2008 documentary by David Vyorst about the prominence of Jewish basketball players in the first half of the 20th century. 
  
 Schectman was among players from the inaugural N.B.A. game who were honored when the Knicks played the Toronto Raptors at Skydome in 1996 on the 50th anniversary of the league’s debut. 
  
 Schectman, whose death was announced by the Knicks, had retired to Delray Beach, Fla., after more than three decades in Manhattan’s garment industry and lived in Ardsley, N.Y., in Westchester County, in his final years. 
  
 His survivors include his sons Stewart and Peter; a sister, Sunny Trumer; and two grandchildren. His wife, Evelyn, died in 2011. 
  
 For his one season as a Knick, Schectman made $9,000, which included a $1,000 bonus for the playoffs. The Knicks’ entire payroll, as he recalled, was $60,000. 
  
 And the players did not exactly travel in pampered accommodations on chartered team jets. 
  
 “Our next time in Toronto, we got snowed in,” Schectman once told The New York Times, remembering a game in late December 1946. 
  
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 “We had a game the next night in Providence, so we took cabs to Buffalo. When some of us missed our train there, we paid a cabdriver to take us to Albany. Then we took another cab to Providence and got there just in time.” 
  
 They were in time to lose honorably — 63 to 61. 
  
 Schectman looked back on those days fondly. 
  
 “I have no jealousy or resentment over how much money these guys make today,” he told Mr. Rosen when he was 86. 
  
 But he admitted having regrets. 
  
 “I wish I could have known how to do a crossover dribble,” he said “That really looks like a lot of fun.” ||||| Benjamin "Ossie" Schectman, the man who scored the first basket in NBA history, for the New York Knicks, has died, the team announced. 
  
 Schectman was 94. 
  
 He played for the Knicks in 1946-47, averaging 8.1 points and two assists per game, though he is widely known for his layup on Nov. 1, 1946, against the Toronto Huskies. 
  
 Schectman, a 6-foot guard, scored the opening basket of the Huskies' game against the Knicks, which was the first in NBA history. 
  
 In a 2003 interview with ESPN, Schectman recalled the basket as a layup on a give-and-go. 
  
 "I scored on a two-handed underhand layup, which was the standard chippy shot back then," he said in the interview. "I also remember being on the receiving end of a give-and-go, but I can't remember who I received the pass from." 
  
 Schectman was born in Queens and grew up in Manhattan. He played college basketball at Long Island University. He helped LIU win the NIT championship in 1939 and 1941. |||||
A: 
A piece of NBA history has died with Ossie Schectman, the man who scored the first basket in the league's first game. Schectman, a New York Knick, scored against the Toronto Huskies on November 1, 1946, at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens. "I scored on a two-handed underhand layup, which was the standard chippy shot back then," he told ESPN in a 2003 interview. "I also remember being on the receiving end of a give-and-go, but I can't remember who I received the pass from." The Knicks won 68-66. Like the Huskies, Schectman only lasted one season in the NBA. He worked as a garment salesman in New York for decades but was remembered in 1988 when the Utah Jazz's Ricky Green scored the NBA's 5 millionth point. He featured prominently in The First Basket, a documentary about Jewish basketball players, and once told an interviewer that he wasn't jealous of how much modern players make, despite making just $9,000 in his season with the Knicks, the New York Times reports. But "I wish I could have known how to do a crossover dribble," he said. "That really looks like a lot of fun."