On This Date 3/7/1954

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The NBA, still in its infancy, plays a regular-season game as a testing ground for new rules, setting the baskets at 12-feet for a game between the Minneapolis Lakers and Milwaukee Hawks at the Minneapolis Auditorium. The game also did not stop for free throws in the first and third quarters, saving them for the end of the quarter. The Lakers would win the game 65-63.