Word: podoloff
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DIED. Maurice Podoloff, 95, Ukrainian-born lawyer and the first president of the National Basketball Association (1949-63) who despite his sketchy knowledge of the game helped to lay the foundation for the professional sport, notably by shifting it out of high school gymnasiums into spacious arenas and by negotiating the league's first TV contract ($3,000, in 1954); in New Haven, Conn...