First NBA Chief Dies
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Associated Press
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Maurice Podoloff, the first commissioner of the National Basketball Assn., died Sunday after being in a coma for several days. He was 95. Podoloff, born in Russia, was commissioner from 1946 to 1963.
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