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Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a 10 foot (3.048 m) high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball is one of the most popular and widely viewed sports in the world. Points are scored by throwing ...
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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league, composed of thirty teams in North America (twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada). It is an active member of USA Basketball (USAB), which is recognized by...

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American Basketball Association

The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a professional basketball league founded in 1967. The ABA ceased to exist with the ABA-NBA merger in 1976. The original ABA was founded in 1967, competing with the well-established National Basketball...

Atlantic Coast Conference

The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic league in the United States. Founded in 1953, the ACC's twelve member universities compete in twenty sports in the Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Football...

National Basketball League

The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional basketball league in the United States, founded in 1937. The league merged with the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1949, forming the National Basketball Association (NBA). The NBL...

National Basketball League

The National Basketball League is Australasia's top-level professional basketball competition. There are currently 8 teams in the league, with teams in Adelaide, Auckland, Cairns, the Gold Coast, Melbourne, Perth, Townsville, and Wollongong. This...

Philippine Basketball Association

The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a professional basketball league in the Philippines founded in 1975. It is the first and the oldest professional basketball league in Asia. The league's rules are a hybrid of FIBA's and the NBA's rules....

International Basketball League

The International Basketball League (IBL) was a short lived professional basketball league in the United States. The IBL was headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The league started in 1999 and ended in 2001. The International Basketball League was...

NBA Development League

The NBA Development League, or NBA D-League, is the National Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization. Known until summer 2005 as the National Basketball Development League (NBDL), the NBA D-League started with eight...

American Basketball League

The American Basketball League was the first true professional basketball league. Where the National Basketball League was made up of smaller town teams, generally sponsored by industrial firms, the ABL was much more ethnic and big city. Initial...

Euroleague

The Euroleague (EL), also known as Euroleague Basketball is the highest level and most important professional basketball competition in Europe, with teams from up to 18 different European countries. The competition is operated by ULEB, a Europe-wide...

British Basketball League

The British Basketball League, often abbreviated to BBL, is the top-tier professional basketball league in the United Kingdom. The BBL runs two knockout competitions alongside the league championship; the BBL Cup and the BBL Trophy, as well as the...

International Basketball Association

The International Basketball Association (IBA) was founded by Alexandria, Minnesota entrepreneur Thomas Anderson in 1995. Mr. Anderson traveled the Upper Midwest searching for franchise owners for a couple of years before the league began play with...

All-American Professional Basketball League

The All-American Professional Basketball League was a minor basketball league formed in 2005 by Worth Christie. Announced on January 23, 2005 the league viewed itself as a direct minor league outlet for the National Basketball Association (NBA). The...

Ligue Nationale de Basketball

The LNB (Ligue Nationale de Basketball) is the top men's French professional basketball league. There are two divisions: French Pro A League (first division) and French Pro B League (second division). All 18 Pro A division teams play each other...

American Basketball Association

The American Basketball Association (ABA) OTCBB: ABKB is a professional men's basketball league that was founded in 1999. The current ABA has no affiliation with the original American Basketball Association that merged with the NBA in 1976. First...

Turkish Basketball League

The Turkish Basketball League (TBL) is the top men’s professional basketball league in Turkey, which is also called Turkish Premier Basketball League (Turkish: "Türkiye 1. Basketbol Ligi"). There is also a Turkish Second Basketball League (TB2L)...

A1 Liga

The A1 Liga or Croatian A1 League is the highest level basketball league in Croatia. It is operated by the Croatian Basketball Federation.

YUBA Liga

The YUBA Liga, named Atlas Pils YUBA Liga for sponsorship reasons, is the name of the two-tiered, national basketball league in Serbia, comprised of the top level Super League and the second level First League, each having their own men's and women...

Women's National Basketball League

The Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) is the premier women's basketball league in Australia. The league was established in 1986, following 5 years of the sport's development through the Women’s Basketball League and the Women’s Basketball...

International Basketball League

The International Basketball League is a professional men's spring basketball league featuring teams from the West Coast, Rocky Mountains, Western Canada, and the Midwest. They also feature teams from the People's Republic of China and Japan which...

Russian Basketball Super League

The Russian Basketball Super League or Russian Basketball Superleague A (in Russian: Баскетбольная Cуперлига) is the top league of Russian professional basketball. There are 9 teams in the Superleague A Division as of 2009/10 season and 13 teams in...

Philippine Basketball League

The Philippine Basketball League (PBL) is a commercial semi-professional basketball league in the Philippines. The league is composed of several commercial teams with several collegiate and provincial stars in the fold. The PBL was formed on 1983, a...

Basketball Bundesliga

The Basketball Bundesliga (English: Federal Basketball League) —commonly abbreviated BBL— is the highest level league of club basketball in Germany. The league comprises 18 teams. A BBL season is split into a league stage and a playoff stage. At the...

Manila Industrial Commercial Athletic Association

The Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association (MICAA) is a defunct sports tournament which existed from 1938 to 1981. It is best known for its basketball league for amateur players. The basketball league was first held in 1938 under the...

Liga Profesional de Baloncesto

The Liga Profesional de Baloncesto (LPB) is the Venezuelan National Basketball League.

Premier Basketball League

The Premier Basketball League (PBL) is a professional men's basketball league that began play in January 2008. The league had ten teams for the 2008 season and thirteen teams for the 2009 season. Complete statistics for the 2009 season can be found...

Eastern Basketball Alliance

The Eastern Basketball Alliance is a professional men's winter basketball league which plays from January through April. The EBA was formed in 1996 from the fledgling Atlantic Basketball Association. The league played its first season with seven...

UPC Telemach League

The Premier A Slovenian Basketball League (Slovene: 1. A Slovenska Košarkarska Liga), abbreviated as 1. A SKL and known for sponsorship reasons as the UPC Telemach League (Slovene: Liga UPC Telemach), is the top-level professional men's basketball...
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