NBA Basketball Finals Tickets

Basketball fans, the wait is over, the 2008 NBA Playoffs are finally here! The Celtics are starting off the Playoffs at the top of the Eastern Conference, with the Pistons and the Magic clinching their berths with division titles and the Raptors, 76ers, Cavaliers, Wizards and Hawks squeaking in with wild card berths. Representing the Western Conference, the Lakers lead the pack, with the Jazz and the Hornets coming in as division winners and the Nuggets, Suns, Spurs, Rockets and Mavericks as the wild card teams. The season has already been full of thrilling victories and devastating upsets, and the Playoffs promise to be even more exciting. Make Coast to Coast your source for tickets to the 2008 NBA Playoffs and 2008 NBA Finals and see all the action live!

James Naismith invented the modern game of Basketball in 1891, while working at the Y.M.C.A. College at Springfield, Massachusetts. Triangle magazine in Springfield, MA first published the rules for basketball in 1892, and 18 students from the Springfield YMCA played the first official basketball game later that year. The University of Chicago played its first college basketball game, defeating the Chicago YMCA Training School 19-11, in 1894.

The first college basketball game was played in 1895, as Minnesota State School of Agriculture defeated the Porkers of Hamline College, 9-3. The first five-player college basketball game was played in 1896 in Iowa City, Iowa. The University of Chicago defeated the University of Iowa by a score of 15-12. Intercollegiate basketball was played for the first time when Wesleyan University defeated Yale 4-3, in New Haven, Connecticut.

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