YouTube Gold: Elgin Baylor

Elgin Baylor (#22) of the Los Angeles Lakers drives toward the basket as Jerry Lucas of the Cincinnati Royals defends in a 1967 game. Depending on your reference point, the NBA either started in 1946 as the BAA, or in 1949, when the BAA merged with the NBL to make the NBA. However, the league at that point was pretty stale. It began to change in the late 1950s, with Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain. It would change a great deal with the addition of Elgin Baylor in 1958. Baylor entered the leagu