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NBA Cares </div> </a> <ul id="toc-NBA_Cares-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 See also </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 Notes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 14 Further reading </div> </a> <ul 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class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8A%D5%A1%D5%BD%D6%84%D5%A7%D5%A9%D5%BA%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%AB_%D4%B1%D5%A6%D5%A3%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D5%84%D5%AB%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%A9%D5%AB%D6%82%D5%B6" title="Պասքէթպոլի Ազգային Միութիւն – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Պասքէթպոլի Ազգային Միութիւն" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Արեւմտահայերէն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Basketbol_Assosiasiyas%C4%B1" title="Milli Basketbol Assosiasiyası – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Milli Basketbol Assosiasiyası" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Нацыянальная баскетбольная асацыяцыя – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Нацыянальная баскетбольная асацыяцыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F%D1%86%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Нацыянальная баскетбольная асацыяцыя – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Нацыянальная баскетбольная асацыяцыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Национална баскетболна асоциация – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Национална баскетболна асоциация" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cebuano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target">Estremeñu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%87_%D9%85%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D8%B3%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84" title="اتحادیه ملی بسکتبال – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اتحادیه ملی بسکتبال" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fur mw-list-item"><a href="https://fur.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Friulian" lang="fur" hreflang="fur" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Furlan" data-language-local-name="Friulian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Furlan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A0%84%EB%AF%B8_%EB%86%8D%EA%B5%AC_%ED%98%91%ED%9A%8C" title="전미 농구 협회 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="전미 농구 협회" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%AF%D5%A5%D5%BF%D5%A2%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%AB_%D5%A1%D5%A6%D5%A3%D5%A1%D5%B5%D5%AB%D5%B6_%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%B8%D6%81%D5%AB%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%AB%D5%A1_(NBA)" title="Բասկետբոլի ազգային ասոցիացիա (NBA) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բասկետբոլի ազգային ասոցիացիա (NBA)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%A8" title="नेशनल बास्केटबॉल असोसिएशन – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="नेशनल बास्केटबॉल असोसिएशन" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%91%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%9D_%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="ნაციონალური საკალათბურთო ასოციაცია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ნაციონალური საკალათბურთო ასოციაცია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%B0%D0%BB%D1%82%D1%82%D1%8B%D2%9B_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB_%D2%9B%D0%B0%D1%83%D1%8B%D0%BC%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8B%D2%93%D1%8B" title="Ұлттық баскетбол қауымдастығы – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Ұлттық баскетбол қауымдастығы" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chama_cha_Mpira_wa_Kikapu_Marekani" title="Chama cha Mpira wa Kikapu Marekani – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Chama cha Mpira wa Kikapu Marekani" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacion%C4%81l%C4%81_basketbola_asoci%C4%81cija" title="Nacionālā basketbola asociācija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Nacionālā basketbola asociācija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Национална кошаркарска асоцијација – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Национална кошаркарска асоцијација" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A8%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B7%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8B%E0%B5%BE_%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%BB" title="നാഷണൽ ബാസ്ക്കറ്റ്ബോൾ അസോസിയേഷൻ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="നാഷണൽ ബാസ്ക്കറ്റ്ബോൾ അസോസിയേഷൻ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%85%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%B2_%E0%A4%85%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%8F%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%A8" title="नॅशनल बास्केटबॉल असोसिएशन – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="नॅशनल बास्केटबॉल असोसिएशन" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98_%E1%83%9D%E1%83%99%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%A9%E1%83%AE%E1%83%90%E1%83%91%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%94_%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9D%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90%E1%83%AA%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="ნაციონალური ოკარაჩხაბურთე ასოციაცია – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ნაციონალური ოკარაჩხაბურთე ასოციაცია" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">მარგალური</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%E2%80%8C%D8%A8%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%A7%DB%8C" title="ان‌بی‌ای – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="ان‌بی‌ای" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persatuan_Bola_Keranjang_Kebangsaan" title="Persatuan Bola Keranjang Kebangsaan – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Persatuan Bola Keranjang Kebangsaan" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D2%AE%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%8D%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B3%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%91%D3%A9%D0%BC%D0%B1%D3%A9%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B9%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BE" title="Үндэсний Сагсан Бөмбөгийн Холбоо – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Үндэсний Сагсан Бөмбөгийн Холбоо" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nap mw-list-item"><a href="https://nap.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Neapolitan" lang="nap" hreflang="nap" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Napulitano" data-language-local-name="Neapolitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Napulitano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8A%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD_%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8" title="Къоман баскетболан ассоциаци – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Къоман баскетболан ассоциаци" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Нохчийн</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oromoo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Национальная баскетбольная ассоциация – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Национальная баскетбольная ассоциация" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA" title="NBA – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="NBA" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sakizaya</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sicilianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="National Basketball Association" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="National Basketball Association" 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/NBA_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="NBA (disambiguation)">NBA (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title">National Basketball Association</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader">Current season, competition or edition: <img alt="Current sports event" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Basketball_current_event.svg/31px-Basketball_current_event.svg.png" decoding="async" width="31" height="31" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Basketball_current_event.svg/47px-Basketball_current_event.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Basketball_current_event.svg/62px-Basketball_current_event.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /> <a href="/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_NBA_season" title="2024–25 NBA season">2024–25 NBA season</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:National_Basketball_Association_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/National_Basketball_Association_logo.svg/105px-National_Basketball_Association_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="105" height="238" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/National_Basketball_Association_logo.svg/158px-National_Basketball_Association_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/National_Basketball_Association_logo.svg/210px-National_Basketball_Association_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="210" data-file-height="476" /></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Sport</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Basketball" title="Basketball">Basketball</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">June 6, 1946; 78 years ago (1946-06-06) (as <a href="/wiki/Basketball_Association_of_America" title="Basketball Association of America">BAA</a>), <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>, New York, U.S.<a href="#cite_note-NBAFoundingDate-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">First season</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1946%E2%80%9347_BAA_season" title="1946–47 BAA season">1946–47</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Commissioner</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Adam_Silver" title="Adam Silver">Adam Silver</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">No. of teams</th><td class="infobox-data">30</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Countries</th><td class="infobox-data">United States (29 teams) Canada (1 team)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Olympic_Tower" title="Olympic Tower">645 Fifth Avenue</a> New York, New York, U.S.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Most recent champion(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> (18th title)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Most titles</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> (18 titles)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">TV partner(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>United States:</li><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_ABC" title="NBA on ABC">ABC</a>/<a href="/wiki/NBA_on_ESPN" title="NBA on ESPN">ESPN</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_TNT" title="NBA on TNT">TNT/Max</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_TV" title="NBA TV">NBA TV</a></li><li>Canada:</li><li><a href="/wiki/The_Sports_Network" title="The Sports Network">TSN</a>/<a href="/wiki/TSN2" title="TSN2">TSN2</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Sportsnet" title="Sportsnet">Sportsnet</a>/<a href="/wiki/Sportsnet_One" title="Sportsnet One">Sportsnet One</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_TV_Canada" title="NBA TV Canada">NBA TV Canada</a></li><li>International:</li><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_National_Basketball_Association_broadcasters#International_broadcasters" class="mw-redirect" title="List of current National Basketball Association broadcasters">See list</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Official website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nba.com/">NBA.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table> The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a <a href="/wiki/Professional_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Professional basketball">professional basketball</a> <a href="/wiki/Sports_league" title="Sports league">league</a> in <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a> composed of 30 teams (29 in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and 1 in <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>). It is one of the <a href="/wiki/Major_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada" title="Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada">major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada</a> and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> The NBA was created on August 3, 1949, with the merger of the <a href="/wiki/Basketball_Association_of_America" title="Basketball Association of America">Basketball Association of America</a> (BAA) and the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(United_States)" title="National Basketball League (United States)">National Basketball League</a> (NBL). The league later adopted the BAA's history and considers its founding on June 6, 1946, as its own.<a href="#cite_note-wp-2022-01-02-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-NBAFoundingDate-1">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> In 1976, the NBA and the <a href="/wiki/American_Basketball_Association" title="American Basketball Association">American Basketball Association</a> (ABA) <a href="/wiki/ABA%E2%80%93NBA_merger" title="ABA–NBA merger">merged</a>, adding four franchises to the NBA. The NBA's regular season runs from October to April, with each team playing 82 games. The <a href="/wiki/NBA_playoffs" title="NBA playoffs">league's playoff tournament</a> extends into June, culminating with the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a> championship series. As of 2020<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Basketball_Association&action=edit">[update]</a>, NBA players are the world's best paid athletes by average annual salary per player.<a href="#cite_note-urlThe_Worlds_Highest-Paid_Athletes_2020-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> The NBA is an active member of <a href="/wiki/USA_Basketball" title="USA Basketball">USA Basketball</a> (USAB),<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> which is recognized by the <a href="/wiki/FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a> (International Basketball Federation) as the <a href="/wiki/Sport_governing_body" class="mw-redirect" title="Sport governing body">national governing body</a> for basketball in the United States. The league's several international as well as individual team offices are directed out of its head offices in <a href="/wiki/Midtown_Manhattan" title="Midtown Manhattan">Midtown Manhattan</a>, while its <a href="/wiki/NBA_Entertainment" title="NBA Entertainment">NBA Entertainment</a> and <a href="/wiki/NBA_TV" title="NBA TV">NBA TV</a> studios are directed out of offices located in <a href="/wiki/Secaucus,_New_Jersey" title="Secaucus, New Jersey">Secaucus, New Jersey</a>. The NBA is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_professional_sports_leagues_by_revenue" title="List of professional sports leagues by revenue">second-wealthiest professional sports league in the world by revenue</a> after the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a> (NFL).<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> have the most <a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_champions" title="List of NBA champions">NBA championships</a> with 18 and are the reigning league champions, having defeated the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Mavericks" title="Dallas Mavericks">Dallas Mavericks</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2024_NBA_Finals" title="2024 NBA Finals">2024 NBA Finals</a>. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Creation_and_BAA–NBL_merger_(1946–1956)">Creation and BAA–NBL merger (1946–1956)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Basketball_Association_of_America" title="Basketball Association of America">Basketball Association of America</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maple_Leaf_Gardens_2023.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Maple_Leaf_Gardens_2023.jpg/220px-Maple_Leaf_Gardens_2023.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Maple_Leaf_Gardens_2023.jpg/330px-Maple_Leaf_Gardens_2023.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/Maple_Leaf_Gardens_2023.jpg/440px-Maple_Leaf_Gardens_2023.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2272" data-file-height="1704" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Maple_Leaf_Gardens" title="Maple Leaf Gardens">Maple Leaf Gardens</a> in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>, site of the first ever NBA game on November 1, 1946</figcaption></figure> The NBA traces its roots to the <a href="/wiki/Basketball_Association_of_America" title="Basketball Association of America">Basketball Association of America</a> which was founded in 1946 by owners of the major <a href="/wiki/Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">ice hockey</a> arenas in the <a href="/wiki/Northeastern_United_States" title="Northeastern United States">Northeastern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Midwestern_United_States" title="Midwestern United States">Midwestern United States</a> and Canada. On November 1, 1946, in <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>, Ontario, Canada, the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Huskies" title="Toronto Huskies">Toronto Huskies</a> hosted the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Knicks" title="New York Knicks">New York Knickerbockers</a> at <a href="/wiki/Maple_Leaf_Gardens" title="Maple Leaf Gardens">Maple Leaf Gardens</a>, in a game the NBA now refers to as the first game played in NBA history.<a href="#cite_note-firstgame-11">[11]</a> The first basket was made by <a href="/wiki/Ossie_Schectman" title="Ossie Schectman">Ossie Schectman</a> of the Knickerbockers.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> Although there had been earlier attempts at professional basketball leagues, including the <a href="/wiki/American_Basketball_League_(1925%E2%80%9355)" class="mw-redirect" title="American Basketball League (1925–55)">American Basketball League</a> (ABL) and the NBL, the BAA was the first league to attempt to play primarily in large arenas in major cities. During its early years, the quality of play in the BAA was not significantly better than in competing leagues or among leading independent clubs such as the <a href="/wiki/Harlem_Globetrotters" title="Harlem Globetrotters">Harlem Globetrotters</a>. For instance, the 1947 ABL finalist <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Bullets_(1944%E2%80%9354)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore Bullets (1944–54)">Baltimore Bullets</a> moved to the BAA and won that league's 1948 title,<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> and the 1948 NBL champion <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis_Lakers" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis Lakers">Minneapolis Lakers</a> won the 1949 BAA title.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> Prior to the 1948–49 season, the BAA lured away the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Wayne_Pistons" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Wayne Pistons">Fort Wayne Pistons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_Kautskys" class="mw-redirect" title="Indianapolis Kautskys">Indianapolis Kautskys</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis_Lakers" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis Lakers">Minneapolis Lakers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Royals" class="mw-redirect" title="Rochester Royals">Rochester Royals</a> from the NBL with the prospect of playing in major venues such as <a href="/wiki/Boston_Garden" title="Boston Garden">Boston Garden</a> and <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a>.<a href="#cite_note-encyc-16">[16]</a> The NBL hit back by outbidding the BAA for the services of several players, including <a href="/wiki/Al_Cervi" title="Al Cervi">Al Cervi</a>, rookie <a href="/wiki/Dolph_Schayes" title="Dolph Schayes">Dolph Schayes</a> and five stars from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Kentucky" title="University of Kentucky">University of Kentucky</a> while also gaining the upper hand in Indianapolis with the creation of the <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis_Olympians" title="Indianapolis Olympians">Indianapolis Olympians</a> while the Kautskys folded.<a href="#cite_note-wp-2022-01-02-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> With several teams facing financial difficulties,<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> the BAA and the NBL agreed on a merger on August 3, 1949, to create the National Basketball Association. <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Podoloff" title="Maurice Podoloff">Maurice Podoloff</a>, the president of BAA, became the president of the NBA while <a href="/wiki/Ike_Duffey" title="Ike Duffey">Ike Duffey</a>, president of the NBL, became the chairman.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> The NBA later adopted the BAA's history and statistics as its own but did not do the same for NBL records and statistics.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wat_Misaka.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Wat_Misaka.jpg/170px-Wat_Misaka.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Wat_Misaka.jpg/255px-Wat_Misaka.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Wat_Misaka.jpg/340px-Wat_Misaka.jpg 2x" data-file-width="708" data-file-height="835" /></a><figcaption>Asian American point guard <a href="/wiki/Wat_Misaka" title="Wat Misaka">Wat Misaka</a> broke basketball's <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation" title="Racial segregation">color barrier</a> as the first non-white player to play in the NBA in 1947.</figcaption></figure> The new league had seventeen franchises located in a mix of large and small cities,<a href="#cite_note-history-22">[22]</a> as well as large arenas and smaller gymnasiums and <a href="/wiki/Arsenal" title="Arsenal">armories</a>. In 1950, the NBA consolidated<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> to eleven franchises, a process that continued until 1954–55, when the league reached its smallest size of eight franchises: the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Knicks" title="New York Knicks">New York Knicks</a>, <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Warriors" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia Warriors">Philadelphia Warriors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis_Lakers" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis Lakers">Minneapolis Lakers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Royals" class="mw-redirect" title="Rochester Royals">Rochester Royals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fort_Wayne_Pistons" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Wayne Pistons">Fort Wayne Pistons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="Milwaukee Hawks">Milwaukee Hawks</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_Nationals" class="mw-redirect" title="Syracuse Nationals">Syracuse Nationals</a>, all of which remain in the league today, although the latter six all did eventually relocate. The process of contraction saw the league's smaller-city franchises move to larger cities. The Hawks had shifted from the <a href="/wiki/Quad_Cities" title="Quad Cities">Tri-Cities</a> to <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee">Milwaukee</a> in 1951, and later shifted to <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a> in 1955. In 1957, the Rochester Royals moved from <a href="/wiki/Rochester,_New_York" title="Rochester, New York">Rochester, New York</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Cincinnati" title="Cincinnati">Cincinnati</a> and the Pistons moved from <a href="/wiki/Fort_Wayne,_Indiana" title="Fort Wayne, Indiana">Fort Wayne, Indiana</a>, to Detroit.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> <a href="/wiki/Japanese-American" class="mw-redirect" title="Japanese-American">Japanese-American</a> <a href="/wiki/Wataru_Misaka" class="mw-redirect" title="Wataru Misaka">Wataru Misaka</a> is considered to have broken the <a href="/wiki/NBA_color_barrier" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA color barrier">NBA color barrier</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1947%E2%80%9348_NBA_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1947–48 NBA season">1947–48 season</a> when he played for the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Knicks" title="New York Knicks">New York Knicks</a> in the BAA. He remained the only non-white player in league history prior to the first African-American, <a href="/wiki/Harold_Hunter_(basketball)" title="Harold Hunter (basketball)">Harold Hunter</a>, signing with the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Capitols" title="Washington Capitols">Washington Capitols</a> in 1950.<a href="#cite_note-kcstar-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-timespicayune-26">[26]</a> Hunter was cut from the team during training camp,<a href="#cite_note-kcstar-25">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-citypaper-27">[27]</a> but several African-American players did play in the league later that year, including <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Cooper_(basketball)" title="Chuck Cooper (basketball)">Chuck Cooper</a> with the Celtics, <a href="/wiki/Nathaniel_%22Sweetwater%22_Clifton" class="mw-redirect" title="Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton">Nathaniel "Sweetwater" Clifton</a> with the Knicks, and <a href="/wiki/Earl_Lloyd" title="Earl Lloyd">Earl Lloyd</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Capitols" title="Washington Capitols">Washington Capitols</a>. During this period, the Minneapolis Lakers won five <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA championships</a> and established themselves as the league's first <a href="/wiki/Dynasty_(sports)" title="Dynasty (sports)">dynasty</a>;<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> their squad was led by center <a href="/wiki/George_Mikan" title="George Mikan">George Mikan</a> who was the NBA's first <a href="/wiki/Superstar" title="Superstar">superstar</a>.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> To encourage shooting and discourage stalling, the league introduced the 24-second <a href="/wiki/Shot_clock" title="Shot clock">shot clock</a> in 1954.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Celtics'_dominance,_league_expansion_and_competition_(1956–1979)">Celtics' dominance, league expansion and competition (1956–1979)</h3></div> In 1957, rookie center <a href="/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell">Bill Russell</a> joined the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a>, which already featured guard <a href="/wiki/Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">Bob Cousy</a> and coach <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Red Auerbach</a>, and went on to lead the franchise to eleven NBA titles in thirteen seasons.<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> Center <a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Wilt Chamberlain</a> entered the league with the Warriors in 1959 and became a dominant individual star of the 1960s, setting new single-game records in scoring (<a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain%27s_100-point_game" title="Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game">100</a>) and rebounding (55). <a href="/wiki/Russell%E2%80%93Chamberlain_rivalry" class="mw-redirect" title="Russell–Chamberlain rivalry">Russell's rivalry with Chamberlain</a> became one of the greatest rivalries in the history of American team sports.<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg/170px-Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="231" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg/255px-Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg/340px-Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="931" data-file-height="1263" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell">Bill Russell</a> defending against <a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Wilt Chamberlain</a> in 1966.</figcaption></figure> The 1960s were dominated by the Celtics. Led by Russell, Cousy, and Auerbach, Boston won eight straight championships in the NBA from 1959 to 1966. This championship streak is the longest in the history of American professional sports.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> They did not win the title in <a href="/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367_NBA_season" title="1966–67 NBA season">1966–67</a>, but regained it in the <a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_NBA_season" title="1967–68 NBA season">1967–68 season</a> and repeated in <a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_NBA_season" title="1968–69 NBA season">1969</a>. The domination totaled nine of the ten championship banners of the 1960s.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> Through this period, the NBA continued to evolve with the shift of the <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis_Lakers" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis Lakers">Minneapolis Lakers</a> to Los Angeles, the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Warriors" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia Warriors">Philadelphia Warriors</a> to San Francisco, the <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_Nationals" class="mw-redirect" title="Syracuse Nationals">Syracuse Nationals</a> to <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</a> to become the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_76ers" title="Philadelphia 76ers">Philadelphia 76ers</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis Hawks">St. Louis Hawks</a> moving to <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>, as well as the addition of its first expansion franchises. The Chicago Packers (now <a href="/wiki/Washington_Wizards" title="Washington Wizards">Washington Wizards</a>) became the ninth NBA team in 1961.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> From 1966 to 1968, the league expanded from 9 to 14 teams, introducing the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bulls" title="Chicago Bulls">Chicago Bulls</a>, <a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics" title="Seattle SuperSonics">Seattle SuperSonics</a> (now <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Thunder" title="Oklahoma City Thunder">Oklahoma City Thunder</a>), <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Rockets" class="mw-redirect" title="San Diego Rockets">San Diego Rockets</a> (who moved to <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston</a> four years later), <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Bucks" title="Milwaukee Bucks">Milwaukee Bucks</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Suns" title="Phoenix Suns">Phoenix Suns</a>. In 1967, the league faced a new external threat with the formation of the <a href="/wiki/American_Basketball_Association" title="American Basketball Association">American Basketball Association</a> (ABA). The leagues engaged in a bidding war.<a href="#cite_note-jozsa-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> The NBA landed the most important college star of the era, <a href="/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar" title="Kareem Abdul-Jabbar">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar</a> (then known as Lew Alcindor), who went on to become the league's best player of the 1970s.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> However, the NBA's leading scorer, <a href="/wiki/Rick_Barry" title="Rick Barry">Rick Barry</a>, jumped to the ABA, as did four veteran referees—<a href="/wiki/Norm_Drucker" title="Norm Drucker">Norm Drucker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Earl_Strom" title="Earl Strom">Earl Strom</a>, John Vanak, and Joe Gushue.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wes_Unseld_and_Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Wes_Unseld_and_Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar.jpeg/170px-Wes_Unseld_and_Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar.jpeg" decoding="async" width="170" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Wes_Unseld_and_Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar.jpeg/255px-Wes_Unseld_and_Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Wes_Unseld_and_Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar.jpeg/340px-Wes_Unseld_and_Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="487" data-file-height="869" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar" title="Kareem Abdul-Jabbar">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar</a>, shown shooting his signature "<a href="/wiki/Hook_shot#Skyhook" title="Hook shot">skyhook</a>" shot, was one of the league's best players of the 1970s.</figcaption></figure> In 1969, <a href="/wiki/Alan_Siegel" title="Alan Siegel">Alan Siegel</a>, who oversaw the design of Jerry Dior's <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_logo" title="Major League Baseball logo">Major League Baseball logo</a> a year prior, created the modern NBA logo inspired by the MLB's. It incorporates the silhouette of <a href="/wiki/Jerry_West" title="Jerry West">Jerry West</a>, based on a photo by Wen Roberts. The NBA would not confirm that a particular player was used because, according to Siegel, "They want to institutionalize it rather than individualize it. It's become such a ubiquitous, classic symbol and focal point of their identity and their licensing program that they don't necessarily want to identify it with one player." The logo debuted in 1971 (with a small change to the typeface on the NBA wordmark in 2017) and would remain a fixture of the NBA brand.<a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> The ABA succeeded in signing a number of major stars in the 1970s, including <a href="/wiki/Julius_Erving" title="Julius Erving">Julius Erving</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Virginia_Squires" title="Virginia Squires">Virginia Squires</a>, in part because it allowed teams to sign college undergraduates. The NBA expanded rapidly during this period. From 1966 to 1974, the NBA grew from nine franchises to 18.<a href="#cite_note-jozsa-36">[36]</a> In 1970, the <a href="/wiki/Portland_Trail_Blazers" title="Portland Trail Blazers">Portland Trail Blazers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Cavaliers" title="Cleveland Cavaliers">Cleveland Cavaliers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Braves" title="Buffalo Braves">Buffalo Braves</a> (now the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Clippers" title="Los Angeles Clippers">Los Angeles Clippers</a>) all made their debuts expanding the league to 17.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a> The New Orleans Jazz (now in <a href="/wiki/Utah_Jazz" title="Utah Jazz">Utah</a>) came aboard in 1974 bringing the total to 18. Following the 1976 season, <a href="/wiki/ABA%E2%80%93NBA_merger" title="ABA–NBA merger">the leagues reached a settlement</a> that provided for the addition of four ABA franchises to the NBA, raising the number of franchises in the league at that time to 22. The franchises added were the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs" title="San Antonio Spurs">San Antonio Spurs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Denver_Nuggets" title="Denver Nuggets">Denver Nuggets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Pacers" title="Indiana Pacers">Indiana Pacers</a>, and <a href="/wiki/New_York_Nets" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Nets">New York Nets</a> (now the Brooklyn Nets).<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a> Some of the biggest stars of this era were Abdul-Jabbar, Barry, <a href="/wiki/Dave_Cowens" title="Dave Cowens">Dave Cowens</a>, Erving, <a href="/wiki/Elvin_Hayes" title="Elvin Hayes">Elvin Hayes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walt_Frazier" title="Walt Frazier">Walt Frazier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moses_Malone" title="Moses Malone">Moses Malone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Artis_Gilmore" title="Artis Gilmore">Artis Gilmore</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Gervin" title="George Gervin">George Gervin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dan_Issel" title="Dan Issel">Dan Issel</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Pete_Maravich" title="Pete Maravich">Pete Maravich</a>. The end of the decade, however, saw declining TV ratings, low attendance and drug-related player issues – both perceived and real – that threatened to derail the league.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surging_popularity_and_Bulls'_dynasty_(1979–1998)">Surging popularity and Bulls' dynasty (1979–1998)</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{margin:1px;float:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .theader{clear:both;font-weight:bold;text-align:center;align-self:center;background-color:transparent;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbcaption{background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-left{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-right{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .text-align-center{text-align:center}@media all and (max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .tmulti .thumbinner{width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:none!important;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{justify-content:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle{float:none!important;max-width:100%!important;box-sizing:border-box;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .tsingle .thumbcaption{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow>.thumbcaption{text-align:center}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner img{background-color:white}}</style><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:292px;max-width:292px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:136px;max-width:136px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:188px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:1987_NBA_Finals_Lipofsky.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/1987_NBA_Finals_Lipofsky.jpg/134px-1987_NBA_Finals_Lipofsky.jpg" decoding="async" width="134" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/15/1987_NBA_Finals_Lipofsky.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="177" data-file-height="250" /></a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:152px;max-width:152px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:188px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Larry_Bird_Lipofsky.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/Larry_Bird_Lipofsky.jpg/150px-Larry_Bird_Lipofsky.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/Larry_Bird_Lipofsky.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="199" data-file-height="250" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flow-root"><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align:center">Both <a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">Magic Johnson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Larry_Bird" title="Larry Bird">Larry Bird</a> became key stars for the NBA during the 1980s.</div></div></div></div> The league added the ABA's <a href="/wiki/Three-point_field_goal" title="Three-point field goal">three-point field goal</a> beginning in 1979.<a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a> That same year, rookies <a href="/wiki/Larry_Bird" title="Larry Bird">Larry Bird</a> and <a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">Magic Johnson</a> joined the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a> respectively, initiating a period of significant growth of fan interest in the NBA.<a href="#cite_note-:0-45">[45]</a> The two had faced each other in the <a href="/wiki/1979_NCAA_Division_I_Basketball_Championship_Game" class="mw-redirect" title="1979 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game">1979 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game</a>, and they later played against each other in three NBA Finals (1984, 1985, and 1987).<a href="#cite_note-:0-45">[45]</a> In the 10 seasons of the 1980s, Johnson led the Lakers to five titles<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> while Bird led the Celtics to three titles.<a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a> Also in the early 1980s, the NBA added one more expansion franchise, the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Mavericks" title="Dallas Mavericks">Dallas Mavericks</a>,<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> bringing the total to 23 teams. Later on, Larry Bird won the first three three-point shooting contests.<a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a> On February 1, 1984 <a href="/wiki/David_Stern" title="David Stern">David Stern</a> became commissioner of the NBA.<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> Stern has been recognized as playing a major role in the growth of the league during his career.<a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jordan_by_Lipofsky_16577.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Jordan_by_Lipofsky_16577.jpg/220px-Jordan_by_Lipofsky_16577.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Jordan_by_Lipofsky_16577.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="288" data-file-height="385" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Michael Jordan</a> became the league's most popular player during the 1990s, while leading the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bulls" title="Chicago Bulls">Chicago Bulls</a> to six championships.</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Michael Jordan</a> entered the league in 1984 with the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bulls" title="Chicago Bulls">Chicago Bulls</a>, spurring more interest in the league.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> In 1988 and 1989, four cities got their wishes as the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hornets" title="Charlotte Hornets">Charlotte Hornets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miami_Heat" title="Miami Heat">Miami Heat</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Magic" title="Orlando Magic">Orlando Magic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Timberwolves" title="Minnesota Timberwolves">Minnesota Timberwolves</a> made their NBA debuts, bringing the total to 27 teams.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons" title="Detroit Pistons">Detroit Pistons</a> won back-to-back NBA championships in 1989 and 1990, led by coach <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Daly" title="Chuck Daly">Chuck Daly</a> and guard <a href="/wiki/Isiah_Thomas" title="Isiah Thomas">Isiah Thomas</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> Jordan and <a href="/wiki/Scottie_Pippen" title="Scottie Pippen">Scottie Pippen</a> led the Bulls to two three-peats in eight years during the 1991–1998 seasons.<a href="#cite_note-56">[56]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> <a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon" title="Hakeem Olajuwon">Hakeem Olajuwon</a> won back-to-back titles with the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Rockets" title="Houston Rockets">Houston Rockets</a> in 1994 and 1995.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> The <a href="/wiki/1992_Summer_Olympics" title="1992 Summer Olympics">1992 Olympic</a> basketball <a href="/wiki/1992_United_States_men%27s_Olympic_basketball_team" title="1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team">Dream Team</a>, the first to use current NBA stars, featured Michael Jordan as the anchor, along with Bird, Johnson, <a href="/wiki/David_Robinson_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Robinson (basketball)">David Robinson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Ewing" title="Patrick Ewing">Patrick Ewing</a>, Scottie Pippen, <a href="/wiki/Clyde_Drexler" title="Clyde Drexler">Clyde Drexler</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karl_Malone" title="Karl Malone">Karl Malone</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Stockton" title="John Stockton">John Stockton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Mullin_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chris Mullin (basketball)">Chris Mullin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Barkley" title="Charles Barkley">Charles Barkley</a>, and star NCAA amateur <a href="/wiki/Christian_Laettner" title="Christian Laettner">Christian Laettner</a>.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> The team was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a>, while 11 of the 12 players (along with three out of four coaches) have been inducted as individuals in their own right.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> In 1995, the NBA expanded to Canada with the addition of the <a href="/wiki/Vancouver_Grizzlies" title="Vancouver Grizzlies">Vancouver Grizzlies</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Raptors" title="Toronto Raptors">Toronto Raptors</a>.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a><a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> In 1996, the NBA created a women's league, the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association">Women's National Basketball Association</a> (WNBA).<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lakers'_and_Spurs'_dynasties_(1998–2014)">Lakers' and Spurs' dynasties (1998–2014)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti"><div class="thumb tmulti tright"><div class="thumbinner multiimageinner" style="width:292px;max-width:292px"><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:142px;max-width:142px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:210px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Kobe_Bryant_7144_adjusted.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Kobe_Bryant_7144_adjusted.jpg/140px-Kobe_Bryant_7144_adjusted.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Kobe_Bryant_7144_adjusted.jpg/210px-Kobe_Bryant_7144_adjusted.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Kobe_Bryant_7144_adjusted.jpg/280px-Kobe_Bryant_7144_adjusted.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="3072" /></a></div></div><div class="tsingle" style="width:146px;max-width:146px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:210px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:Tim_Duncan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Tim_Duncan.jpg/144px-Tim_Duncan.jpg" decoding="async" width="144" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Tim_Duncan.jpg/216px-Tim_Duncan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Tim_Duncan.jpg/288px-Tim_Duncan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1324" data-file-height="1933" /></a></div></div></div><div class="trow" style="display:flow-root"><div class="thumbcaption" style="text-align:center">Between 1998 and 2014, <a href="/wiki/Kobe_Bryant" title="Kobe Bryant">Kobe Bryant</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Tim Duncan</a> of the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs" title="San Antonio Spurs">San Antonio Spurs</a> led their teams to five championships each.</div></div></div></div> In 1998, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_team_owners" title="List of NBA team owners">NBA owners</a> began <a href="/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399_NBA_lockout" title="1998–99 NBA lockout">a lockout that suspended all league business</a> until a new labor agreement could be reached, which led to the season being shortened to 50 games.<a href="#cite_note-:1-64">[64]</a><a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> After the breakup of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bulls" title="Chicago Bulls">Chicago Bulls</a> championship roster in the summer of 1998, the <a href="/wiki/Western_Conference_(NBA)" title="Western Conference (NBA)">Western Conference</a> dominated much of the next two decades.<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a>, coached by <a href="/wiki/Phil_Jackson" title="Phil Jackson">Phil Jackson</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs" title="San Antonio Spurs">San Antonio Spurs</a>, coached by <a href="/wiki/Gregg_Popovich" title="Gregg Popovich">Gregg Popovich</a>, combined to make 13 Finals in 16 seasons, with 10 titles.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> "<a href="/wiki/Twin_Towers_(San_Antonio_Spurs)" title="Twin Towers (San Antonio Spurs)">Twin Towers</a>" <a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Tim Duncan</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Robinson_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Robinson (basketball)">David Robinson</a> won the <a href="/wiki/1999_NBA_Finals" title="1999 NBA Finals">1999 championship</a> with the <a href="/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399_San_Antonio_Spurs_season" title="1998–99 San Antonio Spurs season">Spurs</a>, becoming the first former ABA team to win the NBA championship.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> <a href="/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal" title="Shaquille O'Neal">Shaquille O'Neal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kobe_Bryant" title="Kobe Bryant">Kobe Bryant</a> started the 2000s with three consecutive championships for the Lakers.<a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> The Spurs <a href="/wiki/2003_NBA_Finals" title="2003 NBA Finals">reclaimed the title in 2003</a> against the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Nets" class="mw-redirect" title="New Jersey Nets">Nets</a>.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> In 2004, the Lakers <a href="/wiki/2004_NBA_Finals" title="2004 NBA Finals">returned to the Finals</a>, only to lose in five games to the <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons" title="Detroit Pistons">Detroit Pistons</a>.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> The league's image was marred by a <a href="/wiki/The_Malice_at_the_Palace" class="mw-redirect" title="The Malice at the Palace">violent incident between players and fans</a> in a November 2004 game between the <a href="/wiki/Indiana_Pacers" title="Indiana Pacers">Indiana Pacers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons" title="Detroit Pistons">Detroit Pistons</a>.<a href="#cite_note-prunty-72">[72]</a> In response, players were suspended for a total of 146 games with $11 million total lost in salary, and the league tightened security and limited the sale of alcohol.<a href="#cite_note-prunty-72">[72]</a> On May 19, 2005, Commissioner Stern testified before the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</a>' Committee on Government Reform about the NBA's actions to combat the use of <a href="/wiki/Anabolic_steroid" title="Anabolic steroid">steroids</a> and other performance-enhancing drugs. The NBA started its drug-testing program in 1983 and substantially improved it in 1999. In the 1999–2000 season, all players were randomly tested during training camp, and all rookies were additionally tested three more times during the regular season. Of the nearly 4,200 tests for steroids and performance-enhancing drugs conducted over six seasons, only three players were confirmed positive for NBA's drug program, all were immediately suspended, and as of the time of the testimony, none were playing in the NBA.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> After the Spurs <a href="/wiki/2005_NBA_Finals" title="2005 NBA Finals">won the championship again in 2005</a>, the <a href="/wiki/2006_NBA_Finals" title="2006 NBA Finals">2006 Finals</a> featured two franchises making their inaugural Finals appearances.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Miami_Heat" title="Miami Heat">Miami Heat</a>, led by their star shooting guard, <a href="/wiki/Dwyane_Wade" title="Dwyane Wade">Dwyane Wade</a>, and Shaquille O'Neal, who had been traded from the Lakers during the summer of 2004,<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> won the series over the <a href="/wiki/Dallas_Mavericks" title="Dallas Mavericks">Dallas Mavericks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> The Lakers/Spurs dominance <a href="/wiki/2007_NBA_Finals" title="2007 NBA Finals">continued in 2007 with a four-game sweep</a> by the Spurs over the <a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">LeBron James</a>-led <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Cavaliers" title="Cleveland Cavaliers">Cleveland Cavaliers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2008_NBA_Finals" title="2008 NBA Finals">2008 Finals</a> saw a rematch of the league's <a href="/wiki/Celtics%E2%80%93Lakers_rivalry" title="Celtics–Lakers rivalry">highest profile rivalry</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a>, with the Celtics winning their 17th championship.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> The Lakers won back-to-back championships in <a href="/wiki/2009_NBA_Finals" title="2009 NBA Finals">2009</a> and <a href="/wiki/2010_NBA_Finals" title="2010 NBA Finals">2010</a>, against the <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Magic" title="Orlando Magic">Orlando Magic</a> and the Celtics.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a><a href="#cite_note-game7-80">[80]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2010_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="2010 NBA All-Star Game">2010 NBA All-Star Game</a> was held at <a href="/wiki/Cowboys_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Cowboys Stadium">Cowboys Stadium</a> in front of the largest crowd ever, 108,713.<a href="#cite_note-81">[81]</a> A referee lockout began on September 1, 2009, when the contract between the NBA and its referees expired. The first preseason games were played on October 1, 2009, and replacement referees from the <a href="/wiki/Women%27s_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association">WNBA</a> and <a href="/wiki/NBA_Development_League" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Development League">NBA Development League</a> were used, the first time replacement referees had been used since the beginning of the 1995–96 season. The NBA and the regular referees reached a deal on October 23, 2009.<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a><a href="#cite_note-83">[83]</a> At the start of the 2010–11 season, free agents LeBron James and <a href="/wiki/Chris_Bosh" title="Chris Bosh">Chris Bosh</a> signed with the Miami Heat, joining Dwyane Wade to form the "<a href="/wiki/Big_Three_(Miami_Heat)" title="Big Three (Miami Heat)">Big Three</a>".<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> The Heat dominated the league,<a href="#cite_note-85">[85]</a> reaching the Finals for four straight years.<a href="#cite_note-86">[86]</a> In <a href="/wiki/2011_NBA_Finals" title="2011 NBA Finals">2011</a>, they faced a re-match with the Dallas Mavericks but lost to the <a href="/wiki/Dirk_Nowitzki" title="Dirk Nowitzki">Dirk Nowitzki</a>-led team.<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> They won back-to-back titles in <a href="/wiki/2012_NBA_Finals" title="2012 NBA Finals">2012</a> and <a href="/wiki/2013_NBA_Finals" title="2013 NBA Finals">2013</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Thunder" title="Oklahoma City Thunder">Oklahoma City Thunder</a> and the Spurs,<a href="#cite_note-88">[88]</a> and lost in a re-match with the Spurs in the <a href="/wiki/2014_NBA_Finals" title="2014 NBA Finals">2014 Finals</a>.<a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> The 2011–12 season began with <a href="/wiki/2011_NBA_lockout" title="2011 NBA lockout">another lockout</a>, the league's fourth.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> After the first few weeks of the season were canceled, the players and owners ratified a new collective bargaining agreement on December 8, 2011, setting up a shortened 66-game season.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> On February 1, 2014, commissioner David Stern retired after 30 years in the position, and was succeeded by his deputy, <a href="/wiki/Adam_Silver" title="Adam Silver">Adam Silver</a>.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Warriors'_dynasty_and_recent_years_(2014–present)">Warriors' dynasty and recent years (2014–present)</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:LeBron_James_(15849043985).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/LeBron_James_%2815849043985%29.jpg/170px-LeBron_James_%2815849043985%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/LeBron_James_%2815849043985%29.jpg/255px-LeBron_James_%2815849043985%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/LeBron_James_%2815849043985%29.jpg/340px-LeBron_James_%2815849043985%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1734" data-file-height="1676" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">LeBron James</a> became an era-defining star during the 2010s, while leading the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Cavaliers" title="Cleveland Cavaliers">Cleveland Cavaliers</a> to a historic title in 2016.</figcaption></figure> After four seasons with the Miami Heat, <a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">LeBron James</a> returned to the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Cavaliers" title="Cleveland Cavaliers">Cleveland Cavaliers</a> for the 2014–15 season.<a href="#cite_note-93">[93]</a> He led the team to their second Finals appearance with the help of <a href="/wiki/Kyrie_Irving" title="Kyrie Irving">Kyrie Irving</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Love" title="Kevin Love">Kevin Love</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Golden State Warriors</a> defeated the Cavaliers in six games, led by the "<a href="/wiki/Splash_Brothers" title="Splash Brothers">Splash Brothers</a>" <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Curry" title="Stephen Curry">Stephen Curry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Klay_Thompson" title="Klay Thompson">Klay Thompson</a>. The Cavaliers and the Warriors faced each other in the Finals a record <a href="/wiki/Cavaliers%E2%80%93Warriors_rivalry" title="Cavaliers–Warriors rivalry">four consecutive times</a>.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> In the 2015–16 season, the Warriors finished the season 73–9, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_teams_by_single_season_win_percentage" title="List of NBA teams by single season win percentage">best season record in NBA history</a>.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> However, the Cavaliers overcame a 3–1 deficit in the Finals to win <a href="/wiki/2016_NBA_Finals" title="2016 NBA Finals">their first championship</a> that season,<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> and end a <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_sports_curse" title="Cleveland sports curse">52-year professional sports championship drought</a> for the city of <a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> In the 2016–17 season, the Warriors recruited free agent <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Durant" title="Kevin Durant">Kevin Durant</a><a href="#cite_note-98">[98]</a> and went on to win the <a href="/wiki/2017_NBA_Finals" title="2017 NBA Finals">2017</a> and <a href="/wiki/2018_NBA_Finals" title="2018 NBA Finals">2018</a> Finals against the Cavaliers.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> After the departure of James in free agency in 2018, the Cavaliers' streak of playoff and Finals appearances ended. The Warriors returned for a <a href="/wiki/2019_NBA_Finals" title="2019 NBA Finals">fifth consecutive Finals appearance in 2019</a> but lost to the Toronto Raptors, who won their first championship after acquiring <a href="/wiki/Kawhi_Leonard" title="Kawhi Leonard">Kawhi Leonard</a> in a trade.<a href="#cite_note-100">[100]</a> The 2019–20 season was <a href="/wiki/Suspension_of_the_2020_NBA_regular_season" class="mw-redirect" title="Suspension of the 2020 NBA regular season">suspended indefinitely</a> on March 11, 2020, due to the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, after Utah Jazz center <a href="/wiki/Rudy_Gobert" title="Rudy Gobert">Rudy Gobert</a> tested positive for the coronavirus.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a><a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> On June 4, 2020, the NBA Board of Governors voted to resume the season in a 22-team format with 8 seeding games per team and a regular playoffs format, with <a href="/wiki/2020_NBA_Bubble" title="2020 NBA Bubble">all games played in a "bubble"</a> in <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney_World" title="Walt Disney World">Walt Disney World</a> without any fans present.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a><a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stephen_Curry_shooting.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Stephen_Curry_shooting.jpg/170px-Stephen_Curry_shooting.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="295" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Stephen_Curry_shooting.jpg/255px-Stephen_Curry_shooting.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Stephen_Curry_shooting.jpg/340px-Stephen_Curry_shooting.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1748" data-file-height="3029" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Curry" title="Stephen Curry">Stephen Curry</a> revolutionized the NBA during the 2010s, while leading the <a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Golden State Warriors</a> to four championships between 2015 and 2022.</figcaption></figure> This era also saw the continuous near year-over-year decline in NBA viewership. Between 2012 and 2019, the league lost 40 to 45 percent of its viewership. While some of it can be attributed to "cable-cutting", other professional leagues, like the NFL and MLB have retained stable viewership demographics. The opening game of the 2020 Finals between the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Miami_Heat" title="Miami Heat">Miami Heat</a> brought in only 7.41 million viewers to ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That is reportedly the lowest <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals_television_ratings" title="NBA Finals television ratings">viewership seen for the Finals</a> since at least 1994, when total viewers began to be regularly recorded and is a 45 percent decline from game one between the <a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Golden State Warriors</a> and <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Raptors" title="Toronto Raptors">Toronto Raptors</a>, which had 13.51 million viewers a year earlier. Some attribute this decline to the political stances the league and its players are taking, while others consider load management, the uneven talent distribution between the conferences and the cord-cutting of younger viewers as the main reason for the decline.<a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a><a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a><a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a><a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a><a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%9321_NBA_season" title="2020–21 NBA season">2020–21</a> and <a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_NBA_season" title="2021–22 NBA season">2021–22</a> seasons, the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Bucks" title="Milwaukee Bucks">Milwaukee Bucks</a> would defeat the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Suns" title="Phoenix Suns">Phoenix Suns</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2021_NBA_Finals" title="2021 NBA Finals">2021 NBA Finals</a>, securing their second NBA championship since 1971, and the <a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Golden State Warriors</a> made their sixth appearance in the finals defeating the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2022_NBA_Finals" title="2022 NBA Finals">2022 NBA Finals</a>, their fourth championship in eight years.<a href="#cite_note-111">[111]</a><a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323_NBA_season" title="2022–23 NBA season">2022–23 season</a> saw the <a href="/wiki/Denver_Nuggets" title="Denver Nuggets">Denver Nuggets</a>, led by center <a href="/wiki/Nikola_Joki%C4%87" title="Nikola Jokić">Nikola Jokić</a>, make the <a href="/wiki/2023_NBA_Finals" title="2023 NBA Finals">franchise's first NBA Finals appearance</a> and defeat the Miami Heat in five games to win their first NBA championship.<a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_NBA_season" title="2023–24 NBA season">2023–24 NBA season</a> saw the star-studded <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a>, winning a championship over the Dallas Mavericks, after five <a href="/wiki/NBA_conference_finals" title="NBA conference finals">conference finals appearances</a>, and a finals appearance marking their 18th championship, their first since 2008.<a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_influence">International influence</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_foreign_NBA_players" class="mw-redirect" title="List of foreign NBA players">List of foreign NBA players</a></div> Following pioneers like <a href="/wiki/Vlade_Divac" title="Vlade Divac">Vlade Divac</a> (Serbia) and <a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Petrovi%C4%87" title="Dražen Petrović">Dražen Petrović</a> (Croatia) who joined the NBA in the late 1980s, an increasing number of international players have moved directly from playing elsewhere in the world to starring in the NBA.<a href="#cite_note-115">[115]</a><a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> Since 2006, the NBA has faced <a href="/wiki/EuroLeague" title="EuroLeague">EuroLeague</a> teams <a href="/wiki/NBA_vs._EuroLeague_games" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA vs. EuroLeague games">in exhibition matches</a> in the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Europe_Live_Tour" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Europe Live Tour">NBA Europe Live Tour</a>,<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> and since 2009, in the <a href="/wiki/EuroLeague_American_Tour" title="EuroLeague American Tour">EuroLeague American Tour</a>. On November 9, 2007, when the <a href="/wiki/Houston_Rockets" title="Houston Rockets">Houston Rockets</a> with <a href="/wiki/Yao_Ming" title="Yao Ming">Yao Ming</a> faced off against the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Bucks" title="Milwaukee Bucks">Milwaukee Bucks</a> with <a href="/wiki/Yi_Jianlian" title="Yi Jianlian">Yi Jianlian</a>, over 200 million people in China watched on 19 different networks, making it the most-viewed game in NBA history.<a href="#cite_note-118">[118]</a> The <a href="/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_NBA_season" title="2013–14 NBA season">2013–14 season</a> opened with a record 92 international players on the opening night rosters, representing 39 countries and comprising over 20 percent of the league.<a href="#cite_note-auto-119">[119]</a> The NBA defines "international" players as those born outside the 50 United States and Washington, D.C. This means that: <ul><li>Players born in U.S. territories such as Puerto Rico and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islands" title="United States Virgin Islands">U.S. Virgin Islands</a>, most notably USVI native <a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Tim Duncan</a>, are counted as "international" even though they are U.S. citizens by birth, and may even have represented the U.S. in international competition (like Duncan).</li> <li>U.S.-born players are not counted as "international" even if they were born with citizenship in another country and represent that country internationally, such as <a href="/wiki/Joakim_Noah" title="Joakim Noah">Joakim Noah</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kosta_Koufos" title="Kosta Koufos">Kosta Koufos</a>.</li></ul> The beginning of the 2017–18 season saw a record 108 international players representing 42 countries marking 4 consecutive years of at least 100 international players and each team having at least one international player.<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> In 2018, the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Suns" title="Phoenix Suns">Phoenix Suns</a> hired Serbian coach <a href="/wiki/Igor_Koko%C5%A1kov" title="Igor Kokoškov">Igor Kokoškov</a> as their new head coach, replacing Canadian interim coach <a href="/wiki/Jay_Triano" title="Jay Triano">Jay Triano</a>, making Kokoškov the first European coach to become a head coach for a team in the NBA.<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_NBA_season" title="2023–24 NBA season">2023–24 season</a>, the Mavericks and the Thunder each had eight international players on their roster.<a href="#cite_note-international_expansion-122">[122]</a> For six consecutive seasons from <a href="/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_NBA_season" title="2018–19 NBA season">2018–19</a> to <a href="/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_NBA_season" title="2023–24 NBA season">2023–24</a>, the league's <a href="/wiki/NBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Most Valuable Player Award">MVP award</a> has been given to an international player.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_developments">Other developments</h3></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Recentism plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-Recentism" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Ambox_clock_yellow.svg/40px-Ambox_clock_yellow.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Ambox_clock_yellow.svg/60px-Ambox_clock_yellow.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Ambox_clock_yellow.svg/80px-Ambox_clock_yellow.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article appears to be <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Recentism" title="Wikipedia:Recentism">slanted towards recent events</a>. Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective and <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Basketball_Association&action=edit">add more content</a> related to non-recent events. (July 2020)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> In 2001, an affiliated <a href="/wiki/Minor_league" title="Minor league">minor league</a>, the National Basketball Development League, now called the <a href="/wiki/NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a>, was created.<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> Two years after the Hornets' move to <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, the NBA returned to North Carolina, as the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hornets" title="Charlotte Hornets">Charlotte Bobcats</a> were formed as an <a href="/wiki/Expansion_team" title="Expansion team">expansion team</a> in 2004.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> The Hornets <a href="/wiki/Effect_of_Hurricane_Katrina_on_the_New_Orleans_Hornets" title="Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans Hornets">temporarily moved</a> to <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City" title="Oklahoma City">Oklahoma City</a> in 2005 for two seasons because of damage caused by <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina" title="Hurricane Katrina">Hurricane Katrina</a>.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> The team returned to New Orleans in 2007.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> A <a href="/wiki/NBA_criticisms_and_controversies#Microfiber_game_ball" title="NBA criticisms and controversies">new official game ball</a> was introduced on June 28, 2006, for the 2006–07 season, marking the first change to the ball in over 35 years and only the second ball in 60 seasons.<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> Manufactured by <a href="/wiki/Spalding_(sports_equipment)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spalding (sports equipment)">Spalding</a>, the new ball featured a new design and new synthetic material that Spalding claimed offered a better grip, feel, and consistency than the original ball. However, many players were vocal in their disdain for the new ball, saying that it was too sticky when dry, and too slippery when wet. Commissioner Stern announced on December 11, 2006, that beginning January 1, 2007, the NBA would return to the traditional leather basketball in use prior to the 2006–07 season. The change was influenced by frequent player complaints and confirmed hand injuries (cuts) caused by the microfiber ball.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> The <a href="/wiki/NBA_Players_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Players Association">Players' Association</a> had filed a suit on behalf of the players against the NBA over the new ball.<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> As of the 2017–18 season<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Basketball_Association&action=edit">[update]</a>, the NBA team jerseys are manufactured by <a href="/wiki/Nike,_Inc." title="Nike, Inc.">Nike</a>, replacing the previous supplier, <a href="/wiki/Adidas" title="Adidas">Adidas</a>. All teams will wear jerseys with the Nike logo except the <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hornets" title="Charlotte Hornets">Charlotte Hornets</a>, whose jerseys will instead have the <a href="/wiki/Jumpman_(logo)" title="Jumpman (logo)">Jumpman</a> logo associated with longtime Nike endorser <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Michael Jordan</a>, who owns the Hornets.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation">Federal Bureau of Investigation</a> (FBI) began an investigation on July 19, 2007, over allegations that veteran NBA referee <a href="/wiki/Tim_Donaghy" title="Tim Donaghy">Tim Donaghy</a> bet on basketball games he officiated over the past two seasons and that he made calls affecting the <a href="/wiki/Point_spread" class="mw-redirect" title="Point spread">point spread</a> in those games.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> On August 15, 2007, Donaghy pleaded guilty to two <a href="/wiki/2007_NBA_betting_scandal" title="2007 NBA betting scandal">federal charges related to the investigation</a>. Donaghy claimed in 2008 that certain referees were friendly with players and "company men" for the NBA, and he alleged that referees influenced the outcome of certain playoff and finals games in 2002 and 2005. NBA commissioner <a href="/wiki/David_Stern" title="David Stern">David Stern</a> denied the allegations and said Donaghy was a convicted felon and a "singing, cooperating witness".<a href="#cite_note-133">[133]</a> Donaghy served 15 months in prison and was released in November 2009.<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> According to an independent study by Ronald Beech of Game 6 of the <a href="/wiki/2002_NBA_playoffs#Western_Conference_finals" title="2002 NBA playoffs">2002 Western Conference Finals</a> between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings, although the refs increased the Lakers' chances of winning through foul calls during the game, there was no <a href="/wiki/Collusion" title="Collusion">collusion</a> to fix the game. On alleged "star treatment" during Game 6 by the referees toward certain players, Beech claimed, "there does seem to be issues with different standards and allowances for different players."<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> The NBA Board of Governors approved the request of the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics" title="Seattle SuperSonics">Seattle SuperSonics</a> to <a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics_relocation_to_Oklahoma_City" title="Seattle SuperSonics relocation to Oklahoma City">move to Oklahoma City</a> on April 18, 2008.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> The team, however, could not move until it had settled a lawsuit filed by the city of <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>, which was intended to keep the SuperSonics in Seattle for the remaining two seasons of the team's lease at <a href="/wiki/KeyArena" class="mw-redirect" title="KeyArena">KeyArena</a>. Following a court case, the city of Seattle settled with the <a href="/wiki/Professional_Basketball_Club" title="Professional Basketball Club">ownership group</a> of the SuperSonics on July 2, 2008, allowing the team to move to Oklahoma City immediately in exchange for terminating the final two seasons of the team's lease at KeyArena.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Thunder" title="Oklahoma City Thunder">Oklahoma City Thunder</a> began playing in the 2008–09 season. The <a href="/wiki/NBA_outdoor_games" title="NBA outdoor games">first outdoor game</a> in the modern era of the league was played at the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Wells_Tennis_Garden" title="Indian Wells Tennis Garden">Indian Wells Tennis Garden</a> on October 11, 2008, between the <a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Suns" title="Phoenix Suns">Phoenix Suns</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Denver_Nuggets" title="Denver Nuggets">Denver Nuggets</a>.<a href="#cite_note-138">[138]</a> The first official NBA league games on European ground took place in 2011. In two matchups, the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Nets" class="mw-redirect" title="New Jersey Nets">New Jersey Nets</a> faced the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Raptors" title="Toronto Raptors">Toronto Raptors</a> at the <a href="/wiki/The_O2_Arena_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="The O2 Arena (London)">O2 Arena</a> in London in front of over 20,000 fans. After the 2012–13 season, the New Orleans Hornets were renamed the <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Pelicans" title="New Orleans Pelicans">Pelicans</a>.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> During the 2013–14 season, Stern retired as commissioner after 30 years, and deputy commissioner <a href="/wiki/Adam_Silver" title="Adam Silver">Adam Silver</a> ascended to the position of commissioner. During that season's playoffs, the Bobcats officially reclaimed the Hornets name, and by agreement with the league and the Pelicans, also received sole ownership of all history, records, and statistics from the Pelicans' time in Charlotte. As a result, the Hornets are now officially considered to have been founded in 1988, suspended operations in 2002, and resumed in 2004 as the Bobcats, while the Pelicans are officially treated as a 2002 expansion team.<a href="#cite_note-hornets_name_returns-140">[140]</a> (This is somewhat similar to the relationship between the <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Browns" title="Cleveland Browns">Cleveland Browns</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Ravens" title="Baltimore Ravens">Baltimore Ravens</a> in the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">NFL</a>.) <a href="/wiki/Donald_Sterling" title="Donald Sterling">Donald Sterling</a>, who was then-owner of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Clippers" title="Los Angeles Clippers">Los Angeles Clippers</a>, received a lifetime ban from the NBA on April 29, 2014, after racist remarks he made became public. Sterling was also fined US$2.5 million, the maximum allowed under the NBA Constitution.<a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> <a href="/wiki/Becky_Hammon" title="Becky Hammon">Becky Hammon</a> was hired by the <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs" title="San Antonio Spurs">San Antonio Spurs</a> on August 5, 2014, as an assistant coach, becoming the second <a href="/wiki/List_of_female_NBA_coaches" title="List of female NBA coaches">female coach in NBA history</a> but the first full-time coach.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a><a href="#cite_note-borntocoach-143">[143]</a> This also makes her the first full-time female coach in any of the <a href="/wiki/Major_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada" title="Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada">four major professional sports</a> in North America.<a href="#cite_note-borntocoach-143">[143]</a> The NBA announced on April 15, 2016, that it would allow all 30 of its teams to sell corporate sponsor advertisement patches on official game uniforms, beginning with the 2017–18 season. The sponsorship advertisement patches would appear on the left front of jerseys, opposite <a href="/wiki/Nike,_Inc." title="Nike, Inc.">Nike</a>'s logo, marking the first time a manufacturer's logo would appear on NBA jerseys, and would measure approximately 2.5 by 2.5 inches. The NBA would become the first <a href="/wiki/Major_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada" title="Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada">major North American professional sports league</a> to allow corporate sponsorship logos on official team uniforms, and the last to have a uniform manufacturer logo appear on its team uniforms.<a href="#cite_note-144">[144]</a> The first team to announce a jersey sponsorship was the <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_76ers" title="Philadelphia 76ers">Philadelphia 76ers</a>, who agreed to a deal with <a href="/wiki/StubHub" title="StubHub">StubHub</a>.<a href="#cite_note-145">[145]</a> On July 6, 2017, the NBA unveiled an updated rendition of its logo; it was largely identical to the previous design, except with revised typography and a "richer" color scheme. The league began to phase in the updated logo across its properties during the <a href="/wiki/2017_NBA_Summer_League" title="2017 NBA Summer League">2017 NBA Summer League</a>.<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a> The NBA also officially released new <a href="/wiki/Nike,_Inc." title="Nike, Inc.">Nike</a> uniforms for all 30 teams beginning with the 2017–18 season. The league eliminated "home" and "away" uniform designations. Instead, each team would have four or six uniforms: the "Association" edition, which is the team's white uniform, the "Icon" edition, which is the team's color uniform, and the "Statement" and "City" uniforms, which most teams use as an alternate uniform.<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> In 2018, the NBA also released the "Earned" uniform.<a href="#cite_note-148">[148]</a> In 2018, Adam Silver showed support in the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court's</a> decision to overturn a federal ban on <a href="/wiki/Sports_betting" title="Sports betting">sports betting</a>. Silver thought it would bring greater transparency and integrity as well as business opportunities.<a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a> Before naming <a href="/wiki/DraftKings" title="DraftKings">DraftKings</a> and <a href="/wiki/FanDuel" title="FanDuel">FanDuel</a> co-official sports betting partners of the NBA in 2021, the NBA first named <a href="/wiki/MGM_Resorts_International" title="MGM Resorts International">MGM</a> as the exclusive official gaming partner of the NBA and WNBA—the first major American sports league to do so.<a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a> With a deal between the 76ers and then-sportsbook FOX Bet as the first agreement between an NBA team and a sportsbook app, more teams partnered with operators thereafter.<a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a> This early acceptance of sports betting translated to basketball being the most bet-on sport in the United States over football in 2023.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a> As a part of its November 2021 multi-year partnership deal with the <a href="/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates" title="United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a> (UAE), the NBA hosted two preseason games in Abu Dhabi on October 4 and 6, 2024, marking its third annual trip to the country. However, the <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> (HRW) raised concerns, citing the UAE's pattern of using high-profile events to enhance its image. HRW accused the league of being complicit in "sportswashing" the UAE's poor human rights record, while the country seeks to display itself as open country, without addressing the abuses. On September 30, HRW wrote a letter to the NBA, urging it to implement a human rights risk mitigation strategy, and to ensure that the preseason games were not used as a distraction from the UAE's human rights abuses. The rights organization also pointed out that the UAE hosted the games amidst the reports of the country being directly involved in fuelling the <a href="/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023%E2%80%93present)" title="Sudanese civil war (2023–present)">Sudanese civil war</a>. A coalition of human rights groups called upon the NBA to cancel the games in Abu Dhabi in solidarity with Sudanese.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Teams">Teams</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_defunct_NBA_teams" title="List of defunct NBA teams">List of defunct NBA teams</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_relocated_NBA_teams" title="List of relocated NBA teams">List of relocated NBA teams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_NBA" title="Timeline of the NBA">Timeline of the NBA</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Expansion_of_the_NBA" title="Expansion of the NBA">Expansion of the NBA</a></div> <div role="img" class="floatright noresize" style="width: 550px; line-height: 1; text-align: center; background-color: #ffffff; position: relative;"><a href="/wiki/File:Locations_of_National_Basketball_Association_teams.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Locations_of_National_Basketball_Association_teams.svg/550px-Locations_of_National_Basketball_Association_teams.svg.png" decoding="async" width="550" height="391" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Locations_of_National_Basketball_Association_teams.svg/825px-Locations_of_National_Basketball_Association_teams.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Locations_of_National_Basketball_Association_teams.svg/1100px-Locations_of_National_Basketball_Association_teams.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="836" data-file-height="595" /></a> <div style="position:absolute; 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The current league organization divides 30 teams into two 15-team conferences<a href="#cite_note-manning270-155">[155]</a> of three divisions with five teams each. The current divisional alignment was introduced in the <a href="/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_NBA_season" title="2004–05 NBA season">2004–05 season</a>.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> Reflecting the population distribution of the United States and Canada as a whole, most teams are in the eastern half of the country: 13 teams are in the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern Time Zone</a>, nine in the <a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone_(North_America)" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Time Zone (North America)">Central</a>, three in the <a href="/wiki/Mountain_Time_Zone" title="Mountain Time Zone">Mountain</a>, and five in the <a href="/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone" title="Pacific Time Zone">Pacific</a>. <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Overview of NBA teams </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Conference </th> <th scope="col">Division </th> <th scope="col">Team </th> <th scope="col">Location </th> <th scope="col"><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_arenas" title="List of NBA arenas">Arena</a> </th> <th scope="col">Capacity </th> <th scope="col">Coordinates </th> <th scope="col">Founded </th> <th scope="col">Joined </th></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="15" style="background-color: #1D428A !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;"><a href="/wiki/Eastern_Conference_(NBA)" title="Eastern Conference (NBA)">Eastern</a> </th> <th rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Division_(NBA)" title="Atlantic Division (NBA)">Atlantic</a> </th> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston, Massachusetts</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/TD_Garden" title="TD Garden">TD Garden</a> </td> <td align="center">19,156 </td> <td><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=42.366303_N_71.062228_W_type:landmark&title=Boston+Celtics">42°21′59″N 71°03′44″W / 42.366303°N 71.062228°W / 42.366303; -71.062228 (Boston Celtics)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1946 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nets" title="Brooklyn Nets">Brooklyn Nets</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn, New York</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Barclays_Center" title="Barclays Center">Barclays Center</a> </td> <td align="center">17,732 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=40.68265_N_73.974689_W_type:landmark&title=Brooklyn+Nets">40°40′58″N 73°58′29″W / 40.68265°N 73.974689°W / 40.68265; -73.974689 (Brooklyn Nets)</a> </td> <td align="center">1967* </td> <td align="center">1976 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Knicks" title="New York Knicks">New York Knicks</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York, New York</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a> </td> <td align="center">19,812 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=40.750556_N_73.993611_W_type:landmark&title=New+York+Knicks">40°45′02″N 73°59′37″W / 40.750556°N 73.993611°W / 40.750556; -73.993611 (New York Knicks)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1946 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_76ers" title="Philadelphia 76ers">Philadelphia 76ers</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia" title="Philadelphia">Philadelphia, Pennsylvania</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wells_Fargo_Center_(Philadelphia)" title="Wells Fargo Center (Philadelphia)">Wells Fargo Center</a> </td> <td align="center">20,478 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=39.901111_N_75.171944_W_type:landmark&title=Philadelphia+76ers">39°54′04″N 75°10′19″W / 39.901111°N 75.171944°W / 39.901111; -75.171944 (Philadelphia 76ers)</a> </td> <td align="center">1946* </td> <td align="center">1949 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Toronto_Raptors" title="Toronto Raptors">Toronto Raptors</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto, Ontario</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Scotiabank_Arena" title="Scotiabank Arena">Scotiabank Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">19,800 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=43.643333_N_79.379167_W_type:landmark&title=Toronto+Raptors">43°38′36″N 79°22′45″W / 43.643333°N 79.379167°W / 43.643333; -79.379167 (Toronto Raptors)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1995 </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Central_Division_(NBA)" title="Central Division (NBA)">Central</a> </th> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bulls" title="Chicago Bulls">Chicago Bulls</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago, Illinois</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/United_Center" title="United Center">United Center</a> </td> <td align="center">20,917 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=41.880556_N_87.674167_W_type:landmark&title=Chicago+Bulls">41°52′50″N 87°40′27″W / 41.880556°N 87.674167°W / 41.880556; -87.674167 (Chicago Bulls)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1966 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Cavaliers" title="Cleveland Cavaliers">Cleveland Cavaliers</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Cleveland" title="Cleveland">Cleveland, Ohio</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rocket_Mortgage_FieldHouse" title="Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse">Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse</a> </td> <td align="center">19,432 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=41.496389_N_81.688056_W_type:landmark&title=Cleveland+Cavaliers">41°29′47″N 81°41′17″W / 41.496389°N 81.688056°W / 41.496389; -81.688056 (Cleveland Cavaliers)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1970 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons" title="Detroit Pistons">Detroit Pistons</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit, Michigan</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Little_Caesars_Arena" title="Little Caesars Arena">Little Caesars Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">20,332 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=42.341111_N_83.055_W_type:landmark&title=Detroit+Pistons">42°20′28″N 83°03′18″W / 42.341111°N 83.055°W / 42.341111; -83.055 (Detroit Pistons)</a> </td> <td align="center">1937* </td> <td align="center">1948 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Pacers" title="Indiana Pacers">Indiana Pacers</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis, Indiana</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gainbridge_Fieldhouse" title="Gainbridge Fieldhouse">Gainbridge Fieldhouse</a> </td> <td align="center">17,923 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=39.763889_N_86.155556_W_type:landmark&title=Indiana+Pacers">39°45′50″N 86°09′20″W / 39.763889°N 86.155556°W / 39.763889; -86.155556 (Indiana Pacers)</a> </td> <td align="center">1967 </td> <td align="center">1976 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Bucks" title="Milwaukee Bucks">Milwaukee Bucks</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Milwaukee" title="Milwaukee">Milwaukee, Wisconsin</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fiserv_Forum" title="Fiserv Forum">Fiserv Forum</a> </td> <td align="center">17,341 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=43.043611_N_87.916944_W_type:landmark&title=Milwaukee+Bucks">43°02′37″N 87°55′01″W / 43.043611°N 87.916944°W / 43.043611; -87.916944 (Milwaukee Bucks)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1968 </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Southeast_Division_(NBA)" title="Southeast Division (NBA)">Southeast</a> </th> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Hawks" title="Atlanta Hawks">Atlanta Hawks</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta, Georgia</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/State_Farm_Arena" title="State Farm Arena">State Farm Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">16,600 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=33.757222_N_84.396389_W_type:landmark&title=Atlanta+Hawks">33°45′26″N 84°23′47″W / 33.757222°N 84.396389°W / 33.757222; -84.396389 (Atlanta Hawks)</a> </td> <td align="center">1946* </td> <td align="center">1949 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hornets" title="Charlotte Hornets">Charlotte Hornets</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina" title="Charlotte, North Carolina">Charlotte, North Carolina</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Spectrum_Center_(arena)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spectrum Center (arena)">Spectrum Center</a> </td> <td align="center">19,077 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=35.225_N_80.839167_W_type:landmark&title=Charlotte+Hornets">35°13′30″N 80°50′21″W / 35.225°N 80.839167°W / 35.225; -80.839167 (Charlotte Hornets)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1988* </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Miami_Heat" title="Miami Heat">Miami Heat</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Miami" title="Miami">Miami, Florida</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kaseya_Center" title="Kaseya Center">Kaseya Center</a> </td> <td align="center">19,600 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=25.781389_N_80.188056_W_type:landmark&title=Miami+Heat">25°46′53″N 80°11′17″W / 25.781389°N 80.188056°W / 25.781389; -80.188056 (Miami Heat)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1988 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Magic" title="Orlando Magic">Orlando Magic</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Orlando,_Florida" title="Orlando, Florida">Orlando, Florida</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Kia_Center" title="Kia Center">Kia Center</a> </td> <td align="center">18,846 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=28.539167_N_81.383611_W_type:landmark&title=Orlando+Magic">28°32′21″N 81°23′01″W / 28.539167°N 81.383611°W / 28.539167; -81.383611 (Orlando Magic)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1989 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Washington_Wizards" title="Washington Wizards">Washington Wizards</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Washington,_D.C." title="Washington, D.C.">Washington, D.C.</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Capital_One_Arena" title="Capital One Arena">Capital One Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">20,356 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=38.898056_N_77.020833_W_type:landmark&title=Washington+Wizards">38°53′53″N 77°01′15″W / 38.898056°N 77.020833°W / 38.898056; -77.020833 (Washington Wizards)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1961* </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="15" style="background-color: #C8102E !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; ;"><a href="/wiki/Western_Conference_(NBA)" title="Western Conference (NBA)">Western</a> </th> <th rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Northwest_Division_(NBA)" title="Northwest Division (NBA)">Northwest</a> </th> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Denver_Nuggets" title="Denver Nuggets">Denver Nuggets</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Denver" title="Denver">Denver, Colorado</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ball_Arena" title="Ball Arena">Ball Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">19,520 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=39.748611_N_105.0075_W_type:landmark&title=Denver+Nuggets">39°44′55″N 105°00′27″W / 39.748611°N 105.0075°W / 39.748611; -105.0075 (Denver Nuggets)</a> </td> <td align="center">1967 </td> <td align="center">1976 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Timberwolves" title="Minnesota Timberwolves">Minnesota Timberwolves</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Minneapolis" title="Minneapolis">Minneapolis, Minnesota</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Target_Center" title="Target Center">Target Center</a> </td> <td align="center">18,798 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=44.979444_N_93.276111_W_type:landmark&title=Minnesota+Timberwolves">44°58′46″N 93°16′34″W / 44.979444°N 93.276111°W / 44.979444; -93.276111 (Minnesota Timberwolves)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1989 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Thunder" title="Oklahoma City Thunder">Oklahoma City Thunder</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City" title="Oklahoma City">Oklahoma City, Oklahoma</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paycom_Center" title="Paycom Center">Paycom Center</a> </td> <td align="center">18,203 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=35.463333_N_97.515_W_type:landmark&title=Oklahoma+City+Thunder">35°27′48″N 97°30′54″W / 35.463333°N 97.515°W / 35.463333; -97.515 (Oklahoma City Thunder)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1967* </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Portland_Trail_Blazers" title="Portland Trail Blazers">Portland Trail Blazers</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Portland,_Oregon" title="Portland, Oregon">Portland, Oregon</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Moda_Center" title="Moda Center">Moda Center</a> </td> <td align="center">19,393 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=45.531667_N_122.666667_W_type:landmark&title=Portland+Trail+Blazers">45°31′54″N 122°40′00″W / 45.531667°N 122.666667°W / 45.531667; -122.666667 (Portland Trail Blazers)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1970 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Utah_Jazz" title="Utah Jazz">Utah Jazz</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_City" title="Salt Lake City">Salt Lake City, Utah</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Delta_Center" title="Delta Center">Delta Center</a> </td> <td align="center">18,306 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=40.768333_N_111.901111_W_type:landmark&title=Utah+Jazz">40°46′06″N 111°54′04″W / 40.768333°N 111.901111°W / 40.768333; -111.901111 (Utah Jazz)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1974* </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Division_(NBA)" title="Pacific Division (NBA)">Pacific</a> </th> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Golden State Warriors</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco, California</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Chase_Center" title="Chase Center">Chase Center</a> </td> <td align="center">18,064 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=37.768056_N_122.3875_W_type:landmark&title=Golden+State+Warriors">37°46′05″N 122°23′15″W / 37.768056°N 122.3875°W / 37.768056; -122.3875 (Golden State Warriors)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1946* </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Clippers" title="Los Angeles Clippers">Los Angeles Clippers</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Inglewood,_California" title="Inglewood, California">Inglewood, California</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Intuit_Dome" title="Intuit Dome">Intuit Dome</a> </td> <td align="center">18,000 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=33.9451_N_118.3431_W_type:landmark&title=Los+Angeles+Clippers">33°56′42″N 118°20′35″W / 33.9451°N 118.3431°W / 33.9451; -118.3431 (Los Angeles Clippers)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1970* </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles, California</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Crypto.com_Arena" title="Crypto.com Arena">Crypto.com Arena</a> </td> <td align="center">19,079 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=34.043056_N_118.267222_W_type:landmark&title=Los+Angeles+Lakers">34°02′35″N 118°16′02″W / 34.043056°N 118.267222°W / 34.043056; -118.267222 (Los Angeles Lakers)</a> </td> <td align="center">1947* </td> <td align="center">1948 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Suns" title="Phoenix Suns">Phoenix Suns</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona">Phoenix, Arizona</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Footprint_Center" title="Footprint Center">Footprint Center</a> </td> <td align="center">16,645 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=33.445833_N_112.071389_W_type:landmark&title=Phoenix+Suns">33°26′45″N 112°04′17″W / 33.445833°N 112.071389°W / 33.445833; -112.071389 (Phoenix Suns)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1968 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Kings" title="Sacramento Kings">Sacramento Kings</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Sacramento,_California" title="Sacramento, California">Sacramento, California</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Golden_1_Center" title="Golden 1 Center">Golden 1 Center</a> </td> <td align="center">17,608 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=38.649167_N_121.518056_W_type:landmark&title=Sacramento+Kings">38°38′57″N 121°31′05″W / 38.649167°N 121.518056°W / 38.649167; -121.518056 (Sacramento Kings)</a> </td> <td align="center">1923* </td> <td align="center">1948 </td></tr> <tr> <th rowspan="5"><a href="/wiki/Southwest_Division_(NBA)" title="Southwest Division (NBA)">Southwest</a> </th> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Mavericks" title="Dallas Mavericks">Dallas Mavericks</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Dallas" title="Dallas">Dallas, Texas</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/American_Airlines_Center" title="American Airlines Center">American Airlines Center</a> </td> <td align="center">19,200 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=32.790556_N_96.810278_W_type:landmark&title=Dallas+Mavericks">32°47′26″N 96°48′37″W / 32.790556°N 96.810278°W / 32.790556; -96.810278 (Dallas Mavericks)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1980 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Houston_Rockets" title="Houston Rockets">Houston Rockets</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston, Texas</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Toyota_Center" title="Toyota Center">Toyota Center</a> </td> <td align="center">18,055 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=29.750833_N_95.362222_W_type:landmark&title=Houston+Rockets">29°45′03″N 95°21′44″W / 29.750833°N 95.362222°W / 29.750833; -95.362222 (Houston Rockets)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1967* </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/Memphis_Grizzlies" title="Memphis Grizzlies">Memphis Grizzlies</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Tennessee" title="Memphis, Tennessee">Memphis, Tennessee</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/FedExForum" title="FedExForum">FedExForum</a> </td> <td align="center">18,119 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=35.138333_N_90.050556_W_type:landmark&title=Memphis+Grizzlies">35°08′18″N 90°03′02″W / 35.138333°N 90.050556°W / 35.138333; -90.050556 (Memphis Grizzlies)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">1995* </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Pelicans" title="New Orleans Pelicans">New Orleans Pelicans</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans, Louisiana</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Smoothie_King_Center" title="Smoothie King Center">Smoothie King Center</a> </td> <td align="center">16,867 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=29.948889_N_90.081944_W_type:landmark&title=New+Orleans+Pelicans">29°56′56″N 90°04′55″W / 29.948889°N 90.081944°W / 29.948889; -90.081944 (New Orleans Pelicans)</a> </td> <td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;">2002* </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs" title="San Antonio Spurs">San Antonio Spurs</a> </th> <td><a href="/wiki/San_Antonio" title="San Antonio">San Antonio, Texas</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Frost_Bank_Center" title="Frost Bank Center">Frost Bank Center</a> </td> <td align="center">18,418 </td> <td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=National_Basketball_Association&params=29.426944_N_98.4375_W_type:landmark&title=San+Antonio+Spurs">29°25′37″N 98°26′15″W / 29.426944°N 98.4375°W / 29.426944; -98.4375 (San Antonio Spurs)</a> </td> <td align="center">1967* </td> <td align="center">1976 </td></tr></tbody></table> Notes: <ul><li>An asterisk (*) denotes a franchise move. See the respective team articles for more information.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons" title="Detroit Pistons">Fort Wayne Pistons</a>, <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Minneapolis Lakers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Kings" title="Sacramento Kings">Rochester Royals</a> all joined the NBA (<a href="/wiki/Basketball_Association_of_America" title="Basketball Association of America">BAA</a>) in 1948 from the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(United_States)" title="National Basketball League (United States)">NBL</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_76ers" title="Philadelphia 76ers">Syracuse Nationals</a> and <a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Hawks" title="Atlanta Hawks">Tri-Cities Blackhawks</a> joined the NBA in 1949 as part of the BAA-NBL merger.</li> <li>The Indiana Pacers, <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nets" title="Brooklyn Nets">New York Nets</a>, San Antonio Spurs, and Denver Nuggets all joined the NBA in 1976 as part of the <a href="/wiki/ABA%E2%80%93NBA_merger" title="ABA–NBA merger">ABA–NBA merger</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hornets" title="Charlotte Hornets">Charlotte Hornets</a> are regarded as a continuation of the original Charlotte franchise, which suspended operations in 2002 and rejoined the league in 2004. They were known as the Bobcats from 2004 to 2014. The New Orleans Pelicans are regarded as being established as an expansion team in 2002, originally known as the New Orleans Hornets until 2013.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Regular_season">Regular season</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a>. 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Teams have the ability to assign players with less than two years of experience to the <a href="/wiki/NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a>. After training camp, a series of preseason exhibition games are held. Preseason matches are sometimes held in non-NBA cities, both in the United States and overseas. The NBA regular season begins in mid-October.<a href="#cite_note-manning270-155">[155]</a> During the regular season, each team plays 82 games, 41 each home and away.<a href="#cite_note-biclustering-158">[158]</a> A team faces opponents in its own division four times a year (16 games).<a href="#cite_note-biclustering-158">[158]</a> Each team plays six of the teams from the other two divisions in its conference four times (24 games), and the remaining four teams three times (12 games).<a href="#cite_note-biclustering-158">[158]</a> Finally, each team plays all the teams in the other conference twice apiece (30 games).<a href="#cite_note-biclustering-158">[158]</a> This asymmetrical structure means the <a href="/wiki/Strength_of_schedule" title="Strength of schedule">strength of schedule</a> will vary between teams (but not as significantly as the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">NFL</a> or <a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">MLB</a>). Over five seasons, each team will have played 80 games against their division (20 games against each opponent, 10 at home, 10 on the road), 180 games against the rest of their conference (18 games against each opponent, 9 at home, 9 on the road), and 150 games against the other conference (10 games against each team, 5 at home, 5 on the road). Starting with the <a href="/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_NBA_season" title="2023–24 NBA season">2023–24 season</a>, the regular season includes an <a href="/wiki/NBA_In-Season_Tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA In-Season Tournament">in-season tournament</a>, in which all games in the tournament (except for the final) count towards the regular season.<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> The NBA is also the only league that regularly schedules <a href="/wiki/NBA_Christmas_games" title="NBA Christmas games">games on Christmas Day</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Christmas-160">[160]</a> The league has been playing games regularly on the holiday since 1947,<a href="#cite_note-ChristmasMatchups-161">[161]</a> though the first Christmas Day games were not televised until <a href="/wiki/1983%E2%80%9384_NBA_season" title="1983–84 NBA season">1983–84</a>.<a href="#cite_note-ChristmasGamesOnTV-162">[162]</a> Games played on this day have featured some of the best teams and players.<a href="#cite_note-Christmas-160">[160]</a><a href="#cite_note-ChristmasMatchups-161">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-ChristmasGamesOnTV-162">[162]</a> Christmas is also notable for NBA on television, as the holiday is when the first NBA games air on network television each season.<a href="#cite_note-ChristmasMatchups-161">[161]</a><a href="#cite_note-ChristmasGamesOnTV-162">[162]</a> Games played on this day have been some of the highest-rated games during a particular season. The NBA has also played <a href="/wiki/NBA_MLK_Day_games" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA MLK Day games">games on MLK Day</a> every year since the holiday was first observed in 1986.<a href="#cite_note-163">[163]</a> In February, the regular season pauses to celebrate the annual <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star_Game" title="NBA All-Star Game">NBA All-Star Game</a>.<a href="#cite_note-164">[164]</a> Fans vote throughout the United States, Canada, and on the Internet, and the top vote-getters in each conference are named captains. Fan votes determine the rest of the allstar starters. Coaches vote to choose the remaining 14 All-Stars. The player with the best performance during the game is rewarded with a <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star_Game_MVP" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star Game MVP">Game MVP award</a>. Other attractions of the All-Star break include the <a href="/wiki/Rising_Stars_Challenge" title="Rising Stars Challenge">Rising Stars Challenge</a> (originally Rookie Challenge), where the top rookies and second-year players in the NBA play in a 5-on-5 basketball game, with the current format pitting U.S. players against those from the rest of the world; the <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star_Weekend_Skills_Challenge" title="NBA All-Star Weekend Skills Challenge">Skills Challenge</a>, where players compete to finish an obstacle course consisting of shooting, passing, and dribbling in the fastest time; the <a href="/wiki/Three_Point_Contest" class="mw-redirect" title="Three Point Contest">Three Point Contest</a>, where players compete to score the highest number of three-point field goals in a given time; and the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Slam_Dunk_Contest" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Slam Dunk Contest">NBA Slam Dunk Contest</a>, where players compete to dunk the ball in the most entertaining way according to the judges. These other attractions have varying names which include the names of the various sponsors who have paid for naming rights. Shortly after the All-Star break is the <a href="/wiki/Trade_deadline" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade deadline">trade deadline</a>, which is set to fall on the 16th Thursday of the season (usually in February) at 3 pm <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Time_Zone" title="Eastern Time Zone">Eastern Time</a>.<a href="#cite_note-165">[165]</a> After this date, teams are not allowed to exchange players with each other for the remainder of the season, although they may still sign and release players. Major trades are often completed right before the trading deadline, making that day a hectic time for <a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_general_managers" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association general managers">general managers</a>. Around the middle of April, the regular season ends.<a href="#cite_note-manning270-155">[155]</a> It is during this time that voting begins for individual awards, as well as the selection of the honorary, league-wide, postseason teams. The <a href="/wiki/NBA_Sixth_Man_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award">Sixth Man of the Year Award</a> is given to the best player coming off the bench (must have more games coming off the bench than actual games started). The <a href="/wiki/NBA_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Rookie of the Year Award">Rookie of the Year Award</a> is awarded to the most outstanding first-year player. The <a href="/wiki/NBA_Most_Improved_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Most Improved Player Award">Most Improved Player Award</a> is awarded to the player who is deemed to have shown the most improvement from the previous season. The <a href="/wiki/NBA_Defensive_Player_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award">Defensive Player of the Year Award</a> is awarded to the league's best defender. The <a href="/wiki/NBA_Coach_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Coach of the Year Award">Coach of the Year Award</a> is awarded to the coach that has made the most positive difference to a team. The <a href="/wiki/NBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Most Valuable Player Award">Most Valuable Player Award</a> is given to the player deemed the most valuable for (his team) that season. Additionally, <a href="/wiki/Sporting_News" class="mw-redirect" title="Sporting News">Sporting News</a> awards an unofficial (but widely recognized) <a href="/wiki/NBA_Executive_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Executive of the Year Award">Executive of the Year Award</a> to the general manager who is adjudged to have performed the best job for the benefit of his franchise. The postseason teams are the <a href="/wiki/All-NBA_Team" title="All-NBA Team">All-NBA Team</a>, the <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Defensive_Team" title="NBA All-Defensive Team">All-Defensive Team</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Rookie_Team" title="NBA All-Rookie Team">All-Rookie Team</a>; each consists of five players. There are three All-NBA teams, consisting of the top players at each position, with first-team status being the most desirable. There are two All-Defensive teams, consisting of the top defenders at each position. There are also two All-Rookie teams, consisting of the top first-year players regardless of position.<a href="#cite_note-166">[166]</a><a href="#cite_note-167">[167]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Playoffs">Playoffs</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/NBA_playoffs" title="NBA playoffs">NBA playoffs</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Golden_State_Warriors_hold_Hoops_for_Troops_event_at_129th_Rescue_Wing_(10).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Golden_State_Warriors_hold_Hoops_for_Troops_event_at_129th_Rescue_Wing_%2810%29.jpg/220px-Golden_State_Warriors_hold_Hoops_for_Troops_event_at_129th_Rescue_Wing_%2810%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Golden_State_Warriors_hold_Hoops_for_Troops_event_at_129th_Rescue_Wing_%2810%29.jpg/330px-Golden_State_Warriors_hold_Hoops_for_Troops_event_at_129th_Rescue_Wing_%2810%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Golden_State_Warriors_hold_Hoops_for_Troops_event_at_129th_Rescue_Wing_%2810%29.jpg/440px-Golden_State_Warriors_hold_Hoops_for_Troops_event_at_129th_Rescue_Wing_%2810%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2816" data-file-height="3879" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Larry_O%27Brien_Championship_Trophy" title="Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy">Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy</a> is awarded annually to the winning team of the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a>, the league's championship series that concludes the playoffs.</figcaption></figure> The NBA playoffs begin in April after the conclusion of the regular season and <a href="/wiki/NBA_play-in_tournament" title="NBA play-in tournament">play-in tournament</a> with the top eight teams in each conference,<a href="#cite_note-manning270-155">[155]</a> regardless of divisional alignment, competing for the league's championship title, the <a href="/wiki/Larry_O%27Brien_Championship_Trophy" title="Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy">Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy</a>. Seeds are awarded in strict order of regular season record (with a tiebreaker system used as needed). Having a higher seed offers several advantages. Since the first seed begins the playoffs playing against the eighth seed, the second seed plays the seventh seed, the third seed plays the sixth seed, and the fourth seed plays the fifth seed, having a higher seed typically means a team faces a weaker opponent in the first round. The team in each series with the better record has home-court advantage, including the First Round. The league began using its current format, with the top eight teams in each conference advancing regardless of divisional alignment, in the 2015–16 season. Previously, the top three seeds went to the division winners.<a href="#cite_note-168">[168]</a> The playoffs follow a tournament format. Each team plays an opponent in a best-of-seven series, with the first team to win four games advancing into the next round, while the other team is eliminated from the playoffs. In the next round, the successful team plays against another advancing team of the same conference. All but one team in each conference are eliminated from the playoffs. Since the NBA does not re-seed teams, the playoff bracket in each conference uses a traditional design, with the winner of the series matching the first- and eighth-seeded teams playing the winner of the series matching the fourth- and fifth-seeded teams, and the winner of the series matching the second- and seventh-seeded teams playing the winner of the series matching the third- and sixth-seeded teams. In every round, the best-of-7 series follows a 2–2–1–1–1 home-court pattern, meaning that one team will have home court in games 1, 2, 5, and 7, while the other plays at home in games 3, 4, and 6. From 1985 to 2013, the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a> followed a 2–3–2 pattern, meaning that one team had home court in games 1, 2, 6, and 7, while the other played at home in games 3, 4, and 5.<a href="#cite_note-169">[169]</a> The final playoff round, a best-of-seven series between the victors of both conferences, is known as the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a> and is held annually in June (sometimes, the series will start in late May). The winner of the NBA Finals receives the <a href="/wiki/Larry_O%27Brien_Championship_Trophy" title="Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy">Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy</a>. Each player and major contributor—including coaches and the general manager—on the winning team receive a championship ring. In addition, the league awards the <a href="/wiki/Bill_Russell_NBA_Finals_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award">Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award</a> to the best performing player of the series. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Championships">Championships</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_champions" title="List of NBA champions">List of NBA champions</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> have the most championships, with 18 <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a> wins.<a href="#cite_note-170">[170]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Los Angeles Lakers</a> have the second-most with 17; the <a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Golden State Warriors</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bulls" title="Chicago Bulls">Chicago Bulls</a> have the third- and fourth-most, respectively, with seven and six titles. <table class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"> <caption>Overview of NBA champions </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Teams </th> <th scope="col">Win </th> <th scope="col">Loss </th> <th scope="col">Total </th> <th scope="col">Year(s) won </th> <th scope="col">Year(s) runner-up </th></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> </td> <td>18</td> <td>5</td> <td>23</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1957_NBA_Finals" title="1957 NBA Finals">1957</a>, <a href="/wiki/1959_NBA_Finals" title="1959 NBA Finals">1959</a>, <a href="/wiki/1960_NBA_Finals" title="1960 NBA Finals">1960</a>, <a href="/wiki/1961_NBA_Finals" title="1961 NBA Finals">1961</a>, <a href="/wiki/1962_NBA_Finals" title="1962 NBA Finals">1962</a>, <a href="/wiki/1963_NBA_Finals" title="1963 NBA Finals">1963</a>, <a href="/wiki/1964_NBA_Finals" title="1964 NBA Finals">1964</a>, <a href="/wiki/1965_NBA_Finals" title="1965 NBA Finals">1965</a>, <a href="/wiki/1966_NBA_Finals" title="1966 NBA Finals">1966</a>, <a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_Finals" title="1968 NBA Finals">1968</a>, <a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_Finals" title="1969 NBA Finals">1969</a>, <a href="/wiki/1974_NBA_Finals" title="1974 NBA Finals">1974</a>, <a href="/wiki/1976_NBA_Finals" title="1976 NBA Finals">1976</a>, <a href="/wiki/1981_NBA_Finals" title="1981 NBA Finals">1981</a>, <a href="/wiki/1984_NBA_Finals" title="1984 NBA Finals">1984</a>, <a href="/wiki/1986_NBA_Finals" title="1986 NBA Finals">1986</a>, <a href="/wiki/2008_NBA_Finals" title="2008 NBA Finals">2008</a>, <a href="/wiki/2024_NBA_Finals" title="2024 NBA Finals">2024</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1958_NBA_Finals" title="1958 NBA Finals">1958</a>, <a href="/wiki/1985_NBA_Finals" title="1985 NBA Finals">1985</a>, <a href="/wiki/1987_NBA_Finals" title="1987 NBA Finals">1987</a>, <a href="/wiki/2010_NBA_Finals" title="2010 NBA Finals">2010</a>, <a href="/wiki/2022_NBA_Finals" title="2022 NBA Finals">2022</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Lakers" title="Los Angeles Lakers">Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers</a> </td> <td>17</td> <td>15</td> <td>32</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1949_BAA_Finals" title="1949 BAA Finals">1949</a>, <a href="/wiki/1950_NBA_Finals" title="1950 NBA Finals">1950</a>, <a href="/wiki/1952_NBA_Finals" title="1952 NBA Finals">1952</a>, <a href="/wiki/1953_NBA_Finals" title="1953 NBA Finals">1953</a>, <a href="/wiki/1954_NBA_Finals" title="1954 NBA Finals">1954</a>, <a href="/wiki/1972_NBA_Finals" title="1972 NBA Finals">1972</a>, <a href="/wiki/1980_NBA_Finals" title="1980 NBA Finals">1980</a>, <a href="/wiki/1982_NBA_Finals" title="1982 NBA Finals">1982</a>, <a href="/wiki/1985_NBA_Finals" title="1985 NBA Finals">1985</a>, <a href="/wiki/1987_NBA_Finals" title="1987 NBA Finals">1987</a>, <a href="/wiki/1988_NBA_Finals" title="1988 NBA Finals">1988</a>, <a href="/wiki/2000_NBA_Finals" title="2000 NBA Finals">2000</a>, <a href="/wiki/2001_NBA_Finals" title="2001 NBA Finals">2001</a>, <a href="/wiki/2002_NBA_Finals" title="2002 NBA Finals">2002</a>, <a href="/wiki/2009_NBA_Finals" title="2009 NBA Finals">2009</a>, <a href="/wiki/2010_NBA_Finals" title="2010 NBA Finals">2010</a>, <a href="/wiki/2020_NBA_Finals" title="2020 NBA Finals">2020</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1959_NBA_Finals" title="1959 NBA Finals">1959</a>, <a href="/wiki/1962_NBA_Finals" title="1962 NBA Finals">1962</a>, <a href="/wiki/1963_NBA_Finals" title="1963 NBA Finals">1963</a>, <a href="/wiki/1965_NBA_Finals" title="1965 NBA Finals">1965</a>, <a href="/wiki/1966_NBA_Finals" title="1966 NBA Finals">1966</a>, <a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_Finals" title="1968 NBA Finals">1968</a>, <a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_Finals" title="1969 NBA Finals">1969</a>, <a href="/wiki/1970_NBA_Finals" title="1970 NBA Finals">1970</a>, <a href="/wiki/1973_NBA_Finals" title="1973 NBA Finals">1973</a>, <a href="/wiki/1983_NBA_Finals" title="1983 NBA Finals">1983</a>, <a href="/wiki/1984_NBA_Finals" title="1984 NBA Finals">1984</a>, <a href="/wiki/1989_NBA_Finals" title="1989 NBA Finals">1989</a>, <a href="/wiki/1991_NBA_Finals" title="1991 NBA Finals">1991</a>, <a href="/wiki/2004_NBA_Finals" title="2004 NBA Finals">2004</a>, <a href="/wiki/2008_NBA_Finals" title="2008 NBA Finals">2008</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Golden_State_Warriors" title="Golden State Warriors">Philadelphia/San Francisco/Golden State Warriors</a> </td> <td>7</td> <td>5</td> <td>12</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1947_BAA_Finals" title="1947 BAA Finals">1947</a>, <a href="/wiki/1956_NBA_Finals" title="1956 NBA Finals">1956</a>, <a href="/wiki/1975_NBA_Finals" title="1975 NBA Finals">1975</a>, <a href="/wiki/2015_NBA_Finals" title="2015 NBA Finals">2015</a>, <a href="/wiki/2017_NBA_Finals" title="2017 NBA Finals">2017</a>, <a href="/wiki/2018_NBA_Finals" title="2018 NBA Finals">2018</a>, <a href="/wiki/2022_NBA_Finals" title="2022 NBA Finals">2022</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1948_BAA_Finals" title="1948 BAA Finals">1948</a>, <a href="/wiki/1964_NBA_Finals" title="1964 NBA Finals">1964</a>, <a href="/wiki/1967_NBA_Finals" title="1967 NBA Finals">1967</a>, <a href="/wiki/2016_NBA_Finals" title="2016 NBA Finals">2016</a>, <a href="/wiki/2019_NBA_Finals" title="2019 NBA Finals">2019</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Bulls" title="Chicago Bulls">Chicago Bulls</a> </td> <td>6</td> <td>0</td> <td>6</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1991_NBA_Finals" title="1991 NBA Finals">1991</a>, <a href="/wiki/1992_NBA_Finals" title="1992 NBA Finals">1992</a>, <a href="/wiki/1993_NBA_Finals" title="1993 NBA Finals">1993</a>, <a href="/wiki/1996_NBA_Finals" title="1996 NBA Finals">1996</a>, <a href="/wiki/1997_NBA_Finals" title="1997 NBA Finals">1997</a>, <a href="/wiki/1998_NBA_Finals" title="1998 NBA Finals">1998</a></td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/San_Antonio_Spurs" title="San Antonio Spurs">San Antonio Spurs</a> </td> <td>5</td> <td>1</td> <td>6</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1999_NBA_Finals" title="1999 NBA Finals">1999</a>, <a href="/wiki/2003_NBA_Finals" title="2003 NBA Finals">2003</a>, <a href="/wiki/2005_NBA_Finals" title="2005 NBA Finals">2005</a>, <a href="/wiki/2007_NBA_Finals" title="2007 NBA Finals">2007</a>, <a href="/wiki/2014_NBA_Finals" title="2014 NBA Finals">2014</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2013_NBA_Finals" title="2013 NBA Finals">2013</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_76ers" title="Philadelphia 76ers">Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers</a> </td> <td>3</td> <td>6</td> <td>9</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1955_NBA_Finals" title="1955 NBA Finals">1955</a>, <a href="/wiki/1967_NBA_Finals" title="1967 NBA Finals">1967</a>, <a href="/wiki/1983_NBA_Finals" title="1983 NBA Finals">1983</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1950_NBA_Finals" title="1950 NBA Finals">1950</a>, <a href="/wiki/1954_NBA_Finals" title="1954 NBA Finals">1954</a>, <a href="/wiki/1977_NBA_Finals" title="1977 NBA Finals">1977</a>, <a href="/wiki/1980_NBA_Finals" title="1980 NBA Finals">1980</a>, <a href="/wiki/1982_NBA_Finals" title="1982 NBA Finals">1982</a>, <a href="/wiki/2001_NBA_Finals" title="2001 NBA Finals">2001</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons" title="Detroit Pistons">Fort Wayne/Detroit Pistons</a> </td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td>7</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1989_NBA_Finals" title="1989 NBA Finals">1989</a>, <a href="/wiki/1990_NBA_Finals" title="1990 NBA Finals">1990</a>, <a href="/wiki/2004_NBA_Finals" title="2004 NBA Finals">2004</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1955_NBA_Finals" title="1955 NBA Finals">1955</a>, <a href="/wiki/1956_NBA_Finals" title="1956 NBA Finals">1956</a>, <a href="/wiki/1988_NBA_Finals" title="1988 NBA Finals">1988</a>, <a href="/wiki/2005_NBA_Finals" title="2005 NBA Finals">2005</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Miami_Heat" title="Miami Heat">Miami Heat</a> </td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td>7</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2006_NBA_Finals" title="2006 NBA Finals">2006</a>, <a href="/wiki/2012_NBA_Finals" title="2012 NBA Finals">2012</a>, <a href="/wiki/2013_NBA_Finals" title="2013 NBA Finals">2013</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2011_NBA_Finals" title="2011 NBA Finals">2011</a>, <a href="/wiki/2014_NBA_Finals" title="2014 NBA Finals">2014</a>, <a href="/wiki/2020_NBA_Finals" title="2020 NBA Finals">2020</a>, <a href="/wiki/2023_NBA_Finals" title="2023 NBA Finals">2023</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/New_York_Knicks" title="New York Knicks">New York Knicks</a> </td> <td>2</td> <td>6</td> <td>8</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1970_NBA_Finals" title="1970 NBA Finals">1970</a>, <a href="/wiki/1973_NBA_Finals" title="1973 NBA Finals">1973</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1951_NBA_Finals" title="1951 NBA Finals">1951</a>, <a href="/wiki/1952_NBA_Finals" title="1952 NBA Finals">1952</a>, <a href="/wiki/1953_NBA_Finals" title="1953 NBA Finals">1953</a>, <a href="/wiki/1972_NBA_Finals" title="1972 NBA Finals">1972</a>, <a href="/wiki/1994_NBA_Finals" title="1994 NBA Finals">1994</a>, <a href="/wiki/1999_NBA_Finals" title="1999 NBA Finals">1999</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Houston_Rockets" title="Houston Rockets">Houston Rockets</a> </td> <td>2</td> <td>2</td> <td>4</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1994_NBA_Finals" title="1994 NBA Finals">1994</a>, <a href="/wiki/1995_NBA_Finals" title="1995 NBA Finals">1995</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1981_NBA_Finals" title="1981 NBA Finals">1981</a>, <a href="/wiki/1986_NBA_Finals" title="1986 NBA Finals">1986</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Bucks" title="Milwaukee Bucks">Milwaukee Bucks</a> </td> <td>2</td> <td>1</td> <td>3</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1971_NBA_Finals" title="1971 NBA Finals">1971</a>, <a href="/wiki/2021_NBA_Finals" title="2021 NBA Finals">2021</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1974_NBA_Finals" title="1974 NBA Finals">1974</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Cavaliers" title="Cleveland Cavaliers">Cleveland Cavaliers</a> </td> <td>1</td> <td>4</td> <td>5</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2016_NBA_Finals" title="2016 NBA Finals">2016</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2007_NBA_Finals" title="2007 NBA Finals">2007</a>, <a href="/wiki/2015_NBA_Finals" title="2015 NBA Finals">2015</a>, <a href="/wiki/2017_NBA_Finals" title="2017 NBA Finals">2017</a>, <a href="/wiki/2018_NBA_Finals" title="2018 NBA Finals">2018</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Atlanta_Hawks" title="Atlanta Hawks">St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks</a> </td> <td>1</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1958_NBA_Finals" title="1958 NBA Finals">1958</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1957_NBA_Finals" title="1957 NBA Finals">1957</a>, <a href="/wiki/1960_NBA_Finals" title="1960 NBA Finals">1960</a>, <a href="/wiki/1961_NBA_Finals" title="1961 NBA Finals">1961</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Washington_Wizards" title="Washington Wizards">Baltimore/Washington Bullets</a> (now Washington Wizards) </td> <td>1</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1978_NBA_Finals" title="1978 NBA Finals">1978</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1971_NBA_Finals" title="1971 NBA Finals">1971</a>, <a href="/wiki/1975_NBA_Finals" title="1975 NBA Finals">1975</a>, <a href="/wiki/1979_NBA_Finals" title="1979 NBA Finals">1979</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics" title="Seattle SuperSonics">Seattle SuperSonics</a>/<a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City_Thunder" title="Oklahoma City Thunder">Oklahoma City Thunder</a> </td> <td>1</td> <td>3</td> <td>4</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1979_NBA_Finals" title="1979 NBA Finals">1979</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1978_NBA_Finals" title="1978 NBA Finals">1978</a>, <a href="/wiki/1996_NBA_Finals" title="1996 NBA Finals">1996</a>, <a href="/wiki/2012_NBA_Finals" title="2012 NBA Finals">2012</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Portland_Trail_Blazers" title="Portland Trail Blazers">Portland Trail Blazers</a> </td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1977_NBA_Finals" title="1977 NBA Finals">1977</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1990_NBA_Finals" title="1990 NBA Finals">1990</a>, <a href="/wiki/1992_NBA_Finals" title="1992 NBA Finals">1992</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Dallas_Mavericks" title="Dallas Mavericks">Dallas Mavericks</a> </td> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> <td>3</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2011_NBA_Finals" title="2011 NBA Finals">2011</a></td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2006_NBA_Finals" title="2006 NBA Finals">2006</a>, <a href="/wiki/2024_NBA_Finals" title="2024 NBA Finals">2024</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Bullets_(1944%E2%80%9354)" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltimore Bullets (1944–54)">Baltimore Bullets (original)</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_defunct_National_Basketball_Association_teams" class="mw-redirect" title="List of defunct National Basketball Association teams">folded</a> in 1954) </td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1948_BAA_Finals" title="1948 BAA Finals">1948</a></td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Kings" title="Sacramento Kings">Rochester Royals</a> (now Sacramento Kings) </td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1951_NBA_Finals" title="1951 NBA Finals">1951</a></td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Toronto_Raptors" title="Toronto Raptors">Toronto Raptors</a> </td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2019_NBA_Finals" title="2019 NBA Finals">2019</a></td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Denver_Nuggets" title="Denver Nuggets">Denver Nuggets</a> </td> <td>1</td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2023_NBA_Finals" title="2023 NBA Finals">2023</a></td> <td>— </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Phoenix_Suns" title="Phoenix Suns">Phoenix Suns</a> </td> <td>0</td> <td>3</td> <td>3</td> <td>—</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1976_NBA_Finals" title="1976 NBA Finals">1976</a>, <a href="/wiki/1993_NBA_Finals" title="1993 NBA Finals">1993</a>, <a href="/wiki/2021_NBA_Finals" title="2021 NBA Finals">2021</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Utah_Jazz" title="Utah Jazz">Utah Jazz</a> (formerly New Orleans Jazz) </td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>2</td> <td>—</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1997_NBA_Finals" title="1997 NBA Finals">1997</a>, <a href="/wiki/1998_NBA_Finals" title="1998 NBA Finals">1998</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Brooklyn_Nets" title="Brooklyn Nets">New Jersey Nets</a> (now Brooklyn Nets) </td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>2</td> <td>—</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2002_NBA_Finals" title="2002 NBA Finals">2002</a>, <a href="/wiki/2003_NBA_Finals" title="2003 NBA Finals">2003</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Orlando_Magic" title="Orlando Magic">Orlando Magic</a> </td> <td>0</td> <td>2</td> <td>2</td> <td>—</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1995_NBA_Finals" title="1995 NBA Finals">1995</a>, <a href="/wiki/2009_NBA_Finals" title="2009 NBA Finals">2009</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Stags" title="Chicago Stags">Chicago Stags</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_defunct_National_Basketball_Association_teams" class="mw-redirect" title="List of defunct National Basketball Association teams">folded</a> in 1950) </td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>—</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1947_BAA_Finals" title="1947 BAA Finals">1947</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Washington_Capitols" title="Washington Capitols">Washington Capitols</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_defunct_National_Basketball_Association_teams" class="mw-redirect" title="List of defunct National Basketball Association teams">folded</a> in 1951) </td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>—</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/1949_BAA_Finals" title="1949 BAA Finals">1949</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td scope="row" style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/Indiana_Pacers" title="Indiana Pacers">Indiana Pacers</a> </td> <td>0</td> <td>1</td> <td>1</td> <td>—</td> <td style="text-align:left"><a href="/wiki/2000_NBA_Finals" title="2000 NBA Finals">2000</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> Current teams that have no <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a> appearances:<a href="#cite_note-171">[171]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Hornets" title="Charlotte Hornets">Charlotte Hornets</a> (formerly Charlotte Bobcats)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Clippers" title="Los Angeles Clippers">Los Angeles Clippers</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Buffalo_Braves" title="Buffalo Braves">Buffalo Braves</a>, San Diego Clippers)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Memphis_Grizzlies" title="Memphis Grizzlies">Memphis Grizzlies</a> (formerly <a href="/wiki/Vancouver_Grizzlies" title="Vancouver Grizzlies">Vancouver Grizzlies</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Minnesota_Timberwolves" title="Minnesota Timberwolves">Minnesota Timberwolves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_Pelicans" title="New Orleans Pelicans">New Orleans Pelicans</a> (formerly New Orleans Hornets, <a href="/wiki/Effect_of_Hurricane_Katrina_on_the_New_Orleans_Hornets" title="Effect of Hurricane Katrina on the New Orleans Hornets">New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media_coverage">Media coverage</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_television" title="NBA on television">NBA on television</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/List_of_current_NBA_broadcasters" title="List of current NBA broadcasters">List of current NBA broadcasters</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Reggie_Miller_TNT.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Reggie_Miller_TNT.jpg/220px-Reggie_Miller_TNT.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Reggie_Miller_TNT.jpg/330px-Reggie_Miller_TNT.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Reggie_Miller_TNT.jpg/440px-Reggie_Miller_TNT.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1677" data-file-height="1544" /></a><figcaption>An <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_TNT" title="NBA on TNT">NBA on TNT</a> broadcast crew during a December 2008 game</figcaption></figure> As one of the major sports leagues in North America, the NBA has a long history of partnerships with television networks in the United States. The NBA signed a contract with <a href="/wiki/DuMont_Television_Network" title="DuMont Television Network">DuMont Television Network</a> in its eighth season, the <a href="/wiki/1953-54_NBA_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1953-54 NBA season">1953–54 season</a>, marking the first year the NBA had a national television broadcaster.<a href="#cite_note-172">[172]</a> Similar to the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a>, the lack of television stations led to <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> taking over the rights from the <a href="/wiki/1954-55_NBA_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1954-55 NBA season">1954–55 season</a> until April 1962–NBC's first tenure with the NBA.<a href="#cite_note-173">[173]</a> As of 2024<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Basketball_Association&action=edit">[update]</a> in the United States, the NBA has a contract with <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> (and <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a>) and <a href="/wiki/TNT_(U.S._TV_network)" class="mw-redirect" title="TNT (U.S. TV network)">TNT</a> through the 2024–25 season.<a href="#cite_note-174">[174]</a> Games that are not broadcast nationally are usually aired over <a href="/wiki/Regional_sports_network" title="Regional sports network">regional sports networks</a> specific to the area where the teams are located. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="International_competitions">International competitions</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_games_played_between_NBA_and_international_teams" title="List of games played between NBA and international teams">List of games played between NBA and international teams</a></div> The National Basketball Association has sporadically participated in international club competitions. The first international competition involving the NBA was a 1978 exhibition game in <a href="/wiki/Tel_Aviv" title="Tel Aviv">Tel Aviv</a>, Israel between the <a href="/wiki/Washington_Bullets" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Bullets">Washington Bullets</a> and Israeli club <a href="/wiki/Maccabi_Tel_Aviv_B.C." title="Maccabi Tel Aviv B.C.">Maccabi Tel Aviv</a>.<a href="#cite_note-175">[175]</a> From 1987 to 1999 an NBA team played against championship club teams from Asia, Europe and South America in the <a href="/wiki/McDonald%27s_Championship" title="McDonald's Championship">McDonald's Championship</a>. This tournament was won by the NBA invitee every year it was held.<a href="#cite_note-176">[176]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Ticket_prices_and_viewership_demographics">Ticket prices and viewership demographics</h2></div> In 2022, an average ticket cost $77.75.<a href="#cite_note-177">[177]</a> Depending on the market and stage of the season—preseason, regular season, postseason—a ticket can range from $10 to $100,000.<a href="#cite_note-178">[a]</a><a href="#cite_note-179">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-180">[179]</a> In 2020, ticket prices for the <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star_Game" title="NBA All-Star Game">NBA All Star Game</a> became more expensive than ever before, averaging around $2,600, and even more on the secondary market.<a href="#cite_note-181">[180]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Viewership_demographics">Viewership demographics</h3></div> According to Nielsen's survey, in 2013 the NBA had the youngest audience, with 45 percent of its viewers under 35. As of 2022<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Basketball_Association&action=edit">[update]</a>, the league remains the least likely to be watched by women, who make up only 30% of the viewership.<a href="#cite_note-182">[181]</a> As of 2014<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Basketball_Association&action=edit">[update]</a>, 45 percent of its viewers were <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">black</a>, while 40 percent of viewers were <a href="/wiki/White_American" class="mw-redirect" title="White American">white</a>, making it the only top North American sport that does not have a white majority audience.<a href="#cite_note-183">[182]</a> As of 2017<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Basketball_Association&action=edit">[update]</a>, the NBA's popularity further declined among white Americans, who during the 2016–17 season, made up only 34% of the viewership. At the same time, the black viewership increased to 47 percent, while Hispanic (of any race) stood at 11% and Asian viewership stood at 8%. According to the same poll, the NBA was favored more strongly by <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democrats</a> than <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republicans</a>.<a href="#cite_note-184">[183]</a> Outside the U.S., the NBA's biggest international market is in China,<a href="#cite_note-SCMP_Silver_hopes_for-185">[184]</a><a href="#cite_note-theguardian_How_the_NBA's_rift-186">[185]</a> where an estimated 800 million viewers watched the <a href="/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_NBA_season" title="2017–18 NBA season">2017–18 season</a>.<a href="#cite_note-187">[186]</a> <a href="/wiki/Basketball_in_China" title="Basketball in China">NBA China</a> is worth approximately $4 billion.<a href="#cite_note-SCMP_Silver_hopes_for-185">[184]</a><a href="#cite_note-theguardian_How_the_NBA's_rift-186">[185]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Presidents_and_commissioners">Presidents and commissioners</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Adam_Silver.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Adam_Silver.jpg/220px-Adam_Silver.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Adam_Silver.jpg/330px-Adam_Silver.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Adam_Silver.jpg/440px-Adam_Silver.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2280" data-file-height="2910" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Adam_Silver" title="Adam Silver">Adam Silver</a>, the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Commissioner" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Commissioner">NBA Commissioner</a> since 2014</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Commissioner_of_the_NBA" title="Commissioner of the NBA">Commissioner of the NBA</a></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Podoloff" title="Maurice Podoloff">Maurice Podoloff</a>, President from 1946 to 1963<a href="#cite_note-188">[187]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Walter_Kennedy" title="J. Walter Kennedy">Walter Kennedy</a>, President from 1963 to 1967 and Commissioner from 1967 to 1975<a href="#cite_note-189">[188]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_O%27Brien" title="Larry O'Brien">Larry O'Brien</a>, Commissioner from 1975 to 1984<a href="#cite_note-190">[189]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Stern" title="David Stern">David Stern</a>, Commissioner from 1984 to 2014<a href="#cite_note-191">[190]</a><a href="#cite_note-192">[191]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adam_Silver" title="Adam Silver">Adam Silver</a>, Commissioner from 2014 to present<a href="#cite_note-193">[192]</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Players">Players</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_75th_Anniversary_Team" title="NBA 75th Anniversary Team">NBA 75th Anniversary Team</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_National_Basketball_Association_players" class="mw-redirect" title="Lists of National Basketball Association players">Lists of National Basketball Association players</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_foreign_NBA_players" class="mw-redirect" title="List of foreign NBA players">List of foreign NBA players</a>, a list that is exclusively for players who are not from the United States</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_players">Foreign players</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="International_influence_2">International influence</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_foreign_NBA_players" class="mw-redirect" title="List of foreign NBA players">List of foreign NBA players</a></div> Following pioneers like <a href="/wiki/Vlade_Divac" title="Vlade Divac">Vlade Divac</a> (Serbia) and <a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Petrovi%C4%87" title="Dražen Petrović">Dražen Petrović</a> (Croatia) who joined the NBA in the late 1980s, an increasing number of international players have moved directly from playing elsewhere in the world to starring in the NBA. Below is a short list of foreign players who have won NBA awards or have been otherwise recognized for their contributions to basketball, either currently or formerly active in the league: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Petrovi%C4%87" title="Dražen Petrović">Dražen Petrović</a>, Croatia – 2002 inductee into the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a>, four-time <a href="/wiki/Euroscar" title="Euroscar">Euroscar</a> winner, two-time <a href="/wiki/Mr._Europa" title="Mr. Europa">Mr. Europa</a> winner, MVP of the <a href="/wiki/1986_FIBA_World_Championship" title="1986 FIBA World Championship">1986 FIBA World Championship</a> and <a href="/wiki/EuroBasket_1989" title="EuroBasket 1989">EuroBasket 1989</a>, two-time Olympic silver medalist, World champion, European champion, <a href="/wiki/50_Greatest_EuroLeague_Contributors_(2008)" title="50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors (2008)">50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors</a>.<a href="#cite_note-194">[193]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vlade_Divac" title="Vlade Divac">Vlade Divac</a>, Serbia – 2019 inductee into the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a>, two-time Olympic silver medalist, 2001 <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star">NBA All-Star</a>, two-time World champion, three-time European champion, 1989 Mr. Europa winner, 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors.<a href="#cite_note-195">[194]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%A0ar%C5%ABnas_Mar%C4%8Diulionis" title="Šarūnas Marčiulionis">Šarūnas Marčiulionis</a>, Lithuania – 2014 inductee into the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a>. First player from the Soviet Union and one of the first Europeans to sign a contract with an NBA club and to play solidly in the league, helping to lead the way for the internationalization of the league in the late 1990s.<a href="#cite_note-196">[195]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toni_Kuko%C4%8D" title="Toni Kukoč">Toni Kukoč</a>, Croatia – 2021 inductee into the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a>, three-time NBA champion with Chicago Bulls (1996, 1997, 1998), 1996 <a href="/wiki/NBA_Sixth_Man_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award">Sixth Man Award</a> winner, named in 2008 as one of the <a href="/wiki/50_Greatest_EuroLeague_Contributors" class="mw-redirect" title="50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors">50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors</a>.<a href="#cite_note-197">[196]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvydas_Sabonis" title="Arvydas Sabonis">Arvydas Sabonis</a>, Lithuania – 2011 inductee into the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a>, five-time Euroscar winner, two-time Mr. Europa winner, Olympic gold medalist in <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1988_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 1988 Summer Olympics">1988</a> with the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union_national_basketball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Union national basketball team">Soviet Union</a> and bronze medalist in <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1992_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 1992 Summer Olympics">1992</a> and <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1996_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics">1996</a> with <a href="/wiki/Lithuania_men%27s_national_basketball_team" title="Lithuania men's national basketball team">Lithuania</a>, 1996 NBA All-Rookie First Team, 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors.<a href="#cite_note-198">[197]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peja_Stojakovi%C4%87" title="Peja Stojaković">Peja Stojaković</a>, Serbia – NBA champion with Dallas Mavericks (2011), MVP of the <a href="/wiki/EuroBasket_2001" title="EuroBasket 2001">EuroBasket 2001</a>, member of the all-tournament team in the <a href="/wiki/2002_FIBA_World_Championship" title="2002 FIBA World Championship">2002 FIBA World Championship</a>, 2001 <a href="/wiki/Euroscar" title="Euroscar">Euroscar</a> winner, two-time Mr. Europa winner, two-time <a href="/wiki/NBA_Three-Point_Shootout_champion" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Three-Point Shootout champion">NBA Three-Point Shootout champion</a>, three-time NBA All-Star.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirk_Nowitzki" title="Dirk Nowitzki">Dirk Nowitzki</a>, Germany – NBA champion with Dallas Mavericks (2011), MVP of the <a href="/wiki/2002_FIBA_World_Championship" title="2002 FIBA World Championship">2002 FIBA World Championship</a> and <a href="/wiki/EuroBasket_2005" title="EuroBasket 2005">EuroBasket 2005</a>, member of the all-tournament team in the <a href="/wiki/2002_FIBA_World_Championship" title="2002 FIBA World Championship">2002 FIBA World Championship</a>, six-time Euroscar winner, 2005 Mr. Europa, two-time <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Europe_Player_of_the_Year" class="mw-redirect" title="FIBA Europe Player of the Year">FIBA Europe Player of the Year</a>, 2007 <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player Award">NBA MVP</a>, 2011 <a href="/wiki/Bill_Russell_NBA_Finals_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award">Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award</a>, 2006 <a href="/wiki/NBA_Three-Point_Shootout_champion" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Three-Point Shootout champion">NBA Three-Point Shootout champion</a> and 14-time NBA All-Star.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedo_T%C3%BCrko%C4%9Flu" title="Hedo Türkoğlu">Hedo Türkoğlu</a>, Turkey – 2008 <a href="/wiki/NBA_Most_Improved_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Most Improved Player Award">Most Improved Player Award</a> winner, member of the all-tournament team in the <a href="/wiki/2010_FIBA_World_Championship" title="2010 FIBA World Championship">2010 FIBA World Championship</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pau_Gasol" title="Pau Gasol">Pau Gasol</a>, Spain – two-time NBA champion with Los Angeles Lakers (2009 and 2010), six-time <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star">NBA All-Star</a>, 2002 <a href="/wiki/NBA_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Rookie of the Year Award">NBA Rookie of the Year</a>, two-time Mr. Europa, <a href="/wiki/2006_FIBA_World_Championship" title="2006 FIBA World Championship">2006 FIBA World Championship</a> MVP, four-time <a href="/wiki/Euroscar_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Euroscar Award">Euroscar</a>, two-time <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Europe_Player_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="FIBA Europe Player of the Year Award">FIBA Europe Player of the Year</a>, MVP of the <a href="/wiki/EuroBasket_2009" title="EuroBasket 2009">EuroBasket 2009</a> and <a href="/wiki/EuroBasket_2015" title="EuroBasket 2015">EuroBasket 2015</a>, winner of the <a href="/wiki/J._Walter_Kennedy_Citizenship_Award" title="J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award">NBA Citizenship Award</a> in 2012.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrei_Kirilenko" title="Andrei Kirilenko">Andrei Kirilenko</a>, Russia – 2004 NBA All-Star, MVP of the <a href="/wiki/EuroBasket_2007" title="EuroBasket 2007">EuroBasket 2007</a>, 2007 FIBA Europe Player of the Year.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Parker" title="Tony Parker">Tony Parker</a>, France – four-time NBA champion with the San Antonio Spurs, <a href="/wiki/2007_NBA_Finals" title="2007 NBA Finals">2007 NBA Finals</a> MVP, six-time NBA All-Star and 2007 Euroscar winner.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manu_Gin%C3%B3bili" title="Manu Ginóbili">Manu Ginóbili</a>, Argentina – four-time NBA champion with San Antonio Spurs, 2008 Sixth Man Award winner, two-time NBA All-Star, 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors, Olympic gold medalist in <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_2004_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men%27s_tournament" title="Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament">2004</a> with <a href="/wiki/Argentine_national_basketball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Argentine national basketball team">Argentina</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yao_Ming" title="Yao Ming">Yao Ming</a>, China – 2016 inductee into the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_first_overall_NBA_draft_picks" title="List of first overall NBA draft picks">first overall pick</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2002_NBA_draft" title="2002 NBA draft">2002 NBA draft</a> and eight-time NBA All-Star.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leandro_Barbosa" title="Leandro Barbosa">Leandro Barbosa</a>, Brazil – NBA champion with Golden State Warriors (2015),<a href="#cite_note-barbosachamp-199">[198]</a> 2007 Sixth Man Award winner.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrea_Bargnani" title="Andrea Bargnani">Andrea Bargnani</a>, Italy – first overall pick in the <a href="/wiki/2006_NBA_draft" title="2006 NBA draft">2006 NBA draft</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Toronto_Raptors" title="Toronto Raptors">Toronto Raptors</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giannis_Antetokounmpo" title="Giannis Antetokounmpo">Giannis Antetokounmpo</a>, Greece – NBA champion with the <a href="/wiki/Milwaukee_Bucks" title="Milwaukee Bucks">Milwaukee Bucks</a> (2021), <a href="/wiki/2021_NBA_Finals" title="2021 NBA Finals">2021 NBA Finals</a> MVP, two-time NBA MVP, 2017 Most Improved Player, eight-time NBA All-Star.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikola_Joki%C4%87" title="Nikola Jokić">Nikola Jokić</a>, Serbia – NBA champion with the <a href="/wiki/Denver_Nuggets" title="Denver Nuggets">Denver Nuggets</a> (2023), <a href="/wiki/2023_NBA_Finals" title="2023 NBA Finals">2023 NBA Finals</a> MVP, three-time NBA MVP, six-time NBA All-Star, 2016 NBA All-Rookie First Team, Olympic silver medalist.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luka_Don%C4%8Di%C4%87" title="Luka Dončić">Luka Dončić</a>, Slovenia – 2019 <a href="/wiki/NBA_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Rookie of the Year Award">NBA Rookie of the Year</a>, five-time <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star">NBA All-Star</a>, European champion</li></ul> On some occasions, young players, most but not all from the English-speaking world, have attended U.S. colleges before playing in the NBA. Notable examples are: <ul><li>Nigerian <a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon" title="Hakeem Olajuwon">Hakeem Olajuwon</a> – first overall pick in the <a href="/wiki/1984_NBA_draft" title="1984 NBA draft">1984 NBA draft</a>, two-time champion, 12-time NBA All-Star, 1994 NBA MVP, two-time NBA Finals MVP, two-time <a href="/wiki/NBA_Defensive_Player_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award">NBA Defensive Player of the Year</a> (only player to receive the MVP Award, Defensive Player of the Year Award, and Finals MVP award in the same season,) and Hall of Famer.</li> <li>Congolese <a href="/wiki/Dikembe_Mutombo" title="Dikembe Mutombo">Dikembe Mutombo</a> – fourth overall pick in the <a href="/wiki/1991_NBA_draft" title="1991 NBA draft">1991 NBA draft</a>, four-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, eight-time NBA All-Star and Hall of Famer.</li> <li>Dutchman <a href="/wiki/Rik_Smits" title="Rik Smits">Rik Smits</a> – second overall pick in the <a href="/wiki/1988_NBA_draft" title="1988 NBA draft">1988 NBA draft</a>, 1998 NBA All-Star, played 12 years for the Indiana Pacers.</li> <li>German <a href="/wiki/Detlef_Schrempf" title="Detlef Schrempf">Detlef Schrempf</a> – two-time NBA Sixth Man Award winner, three-time NBA All-Star.</li> <li>Canadians <a href="/wiki/Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Steve Nash</a> (two-time NBA MVP, eight-time NBA All-Star, Hall of Famer) and <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Wiggins" title="Andrew Wiggins">Andrew Wiggins</a> (first overall pick in the <a href="/wiki/2014_NBA_draft" title="2014 NBA draft">2014 NBA draft</a>, 2015 <a href="/wiki/NBA_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Rookie of the Year Award">NBA Rookie of the Year</a>)</li> <li>Australians <a href="/wiki/Luc_Longley" title="Luc Longley">Luc Longley</a> (three-time champion with the Chicago Bulls), <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Bogut" title="Andrew Bogut">Andrew Bogut</a> (first overall pick in the <a href="/wiki/2005_NBA_draft" title="2005 NBA draft">2005 NBA draft</a>, 2015 NBA champion with Golden State Warriors) and <a href="/wiki/Ben_Simmons" title="Ben Simmons">Ben Simmons</a> (first overall pick in the <a href="/wiki/2016_NBA_draft" title="2016 NBA draft">2016 NBA draft</a>, 2018 <a href="/wiki/NBA_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Rookie of the Year Award">NBA Rookie of the Year</a>, three-time NBA All-Star).</li> <li>Sudanese-born Englishman <a href="/wiki/Luol_Deng" title="Luol Deng">Luol Deng</a> – 2007 <a href="/wiki/NBA_Sportsmanship_Award" title="NBA Sportsmanship Award">NBA Sportsmanship Award</a> winner, two-time NBA All-Star.</li> <li>Cameroonians <a href="/wiki/Joel_Embiid" title="Joel Embiid">Joel Embiid</a> (2023 NBA MVP, four-time NBA All-Star, 2017 NBA All-Rookie First Team) and <a href="/wiki/Pascal_Siakam" title="Pascal Siakam">Pascal Siakam</a> (2019 NBA champion with Toronto Raptors, 2019 Most Improved Player, two-time NBA All-Star)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Coaches">Coaches</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_current_NBA_head_coaches" title="List of current NBA head coaches">List of current NBA head coaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_player-coaches" title="List of NBA player-coaches">List of NBA player-coaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_championship_head_coaches" title="List of NBA championship head coaches">List of NBA championship head coaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_foreign_NBA_coaches" title="List of foreign NBA coaches">List of foreign NBA coaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/50_Greatest_Players_in_NBA_History#Top_10_Coaches_in_NBA_History" title="50 Greatest Players in NBA History">Top 10 Coaches in NBA History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_female_NBA_coaches" title="List of female NBA coaches">List of female NBA coaches</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other">Other</h3></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_team_owners" title="List of NBA team owners">List of NBA team owners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_referees" title="List of NBA referees">List of NBA referees</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="NBA_Cares">NBA Cares</h2></div> The league has a global social responsibility program, NBA Cares, that is responsible for the league's stated mission of addressing important social issues worldwide.<a href="#cite_note-200">[199]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_regular_season_records" title="List of NBA regular season records">List of NBA regular season records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_awards" title="List of NBA awards">List of NBA awards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_seasons" title="List of NBA seasons">List of NBA seasons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_cheerleading" title="NBA cheerleading">NBA cheerleading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_rivalries" title="List of NBA rivalries">List of NBA rivalries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_salary_cap" title="NBA salary cap">NBA salary cap</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_playoff_series" title="List of NBA playoff series">List of NBA playoff series</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_Summer_League" title="NBA Summer League">NBA Summer League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_franchise_post-season_droughts" class="mw-redirect" title="List of NBA franchise post-season droughts">List of NBA franchise post-season droughts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_franchise_post-season_streaks" class="mw-redirect" title="List of NBA franchise post-season streaks">List of NBA franchise post-season streaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_Store" title="NBA Store">NBA Store</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output 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DK. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7894-9977-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-7894-9977-0"><bdi>0-7894-9977-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=NBA%27s+Greatest+1st+edition&rft.pub=DK&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-7894-9977-0&rft.aulast=Havlicek&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fnbasgreatest00hare&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANational+Basketball+Association" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKirchberg2007" class="citation book cs1">Kirchberg, Connie (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=spJT3VxogqIC">Hoop Lore: A History of the National Basketball Association</a>. <a href="/wiki/McFarland_%26_Company" title="McFarland & Company">McFarland & Company</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780786426737" title="Special:BookSources/9780786426737"><bdi>9780786426737</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hoop+Lore%3A+A+History+of+the+National+Basketball+Association&rft.pub=McFarland+%26+Company&rft.date=2007&rft.isbn=9780786426737&rft.aulast=Kirchberg&rft.aufirst=Connie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DspJT3VxogqIC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANational+Basketball+Association" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPeterson2002" class="citation book cs1">Peterson, Robert W. (2002). Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8032-8772-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-8032-8772-0"><bdi>0-8032-8772-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cages+to+Jump+Shots%3A+Pro+Basketball%27s+Early+Years&rft.place=Lincoln&rft.pub=University+of+Nebraska+Press&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=0-8032-8772-0&rft.aulast=Peterson&rft.aufirst=Robert+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANational+Basketball+Association" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRosen2009" class="citation book cs1">Rosen, Charley (2009). The First Tip-Off: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA. McGraw-Hill Professional. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-07-148785-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-07-148785-6"><bdi>978-0-07-148785-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+First+Tip-Off%3A+The+Incredible+Story+of+the+Birth+of+the+NBA&rft.pub=McGraw-Hill+Professional&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-07-148785-6&rft.aulast=Rosen&rft.aufirst=Charley&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANational+Basketball+Association" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSurdam2012" class="citation book cs1">Surdam, David George (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-dfZcRHk1kwC">The Rise of the National Basketball Association</a>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_Illinois_Press" title="University of Illinois Press">University of Illinois Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780252037139" title="Special:BookSources/9780252037139"><bdi>9780252037139</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Rise+of+the+National+Basketball+Association&rft.pub=University+of+Illinois+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=9780252037139&rft.aulast=Surdam&rft.aufirst=David+George&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-dfZcRHk1kwC&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANational+Basketball+Association" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1235681985"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output 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style="width:1%">Career</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Regular season</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_scoring_leaders" title="List of NBA career scoring leaders">Points</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_franchise_career_scoring_leaders" title="List of NBA franchise career scoring leaders">Franchise</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_rebounding_leaders" title="List of NBA career rebounding leaders">Rebounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_assists_leaders" title="List of NBA career assists leaders">Assists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_steals_leaders" title="List of NBA career steals leaders">Steals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_blocks_leaders" title="List of NBA career blocks leaders">Blocks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_turnovers_leaders" title="List of NBA career turnovers leaders">Turnovers</a></li> <li>Fouls <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_personal_fouls_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of NBA career personal fouls leaders">Personal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_technical_fouls_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of NBA career technical fouls leaders">Technical</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_field_goal_percentage_leaders" title="List of NBA career field goal percentage leaders">Field goal percentage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_3-point_scoring_leaders" title="List of NBA career 3-point scoring leaders">3-point field goals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_3-point_field_goal_percentage_leaders" title="List of NBA 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leaders">Triple-doubles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Playoffs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_scoring_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff scoring leaders">Points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_rebounding_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff rebounding leaders">Rebounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_assists_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff assists leaders">Assists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_steals_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff steals leaders">Steals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_blocks_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff blocks leaders">Blocks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_turnovers_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff turnovers leaders">Turnovers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_3-point_scoring_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff 3-point scoring leaders">3-point field goals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_free_throw_scoring_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff free throw scoring leaders">Free throws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_games_played_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff games played leaders">Games</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_minutes_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff minutes leaders">Minutes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_career_playoff_triple-double_leaders" title="List of NBA career playoff triple-double leaders">Triple-doubles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_players_with_most_championships" title="List of NBA players with most championships">Championships</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_statistical_leaders" title="List of NBA annual statistical leaders">Annual</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_scoring_leaders" title="List of NBA annual scoring leaders">Points</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_rebounding_leaders" title="List of NBA annual rebounding leaders">Rebounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_assists_leaders" title="List of NBA annual assists leaders">Assists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_steals_leaders" title="List of NBA annual steals leaders">Steals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_blocks_leaders" title="List of NBA annual blocks leaders">Blocks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_minutes_played_leaders" title="List of NBA annual minutes played leaders">Minutes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_field_goal_percentage_leaders" title="List of NBA annual field goal percentage leaders">Field goal percentage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_3-point_scoring_leaders" title="List of NBA annual 3-point scoring leaders">3-point field goals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_3-point_field_goal_percentage_leaders" title="List of NBA annual 3-point field goal percentage leaders">3-point field goal percentage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_annual_free_throw_percentage_leaders" title="List of NBA annual free throw percentage leaders">Free throw percentage</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Season</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_single-season_scoring_leaders" title="List of NBA single-season scoring leaders">Points</a> <ul><li><a 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NBA single-game playoff scoring leaders">Playoffs</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_single-game_rebounding_leaders" title="List of NBA single-game rebounding leaders">Rebounds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_single-game_assists_leaders" title="List of NBA single-game assists leaders">Assists</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_single-game_steals_leaders" title="List of NBA single-game steals leaders">Steals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_single-game_blocks_leaders" title="List of NBA single-game blocks leaders">Blocks</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Misc</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_players_who_have_spent_their_entire_career_with_one_franchise" title="List of NBA players who have spent their entire career with one franchise">Entire career with one franchise</a></li> 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style="text-align:center;width:10%"> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1946%E2%80%9347_BAA_season" title="1946–47 BAA season">1946–47</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1947%E2%80%9348_BAA_season" title="1947–48 BAA season">1947–48</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1948%E2%80%9349_BAA_season" title="1948–49 BAA season">1948–49</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1950s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;padding:0"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1949%E2%80%9350_NBA_season" title="1949–50 NBA season">1949–50</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1950%E2%80%9351_NBA_season" title="1950–51 NBA season">1950–51</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1951%E2%80%9352_NBA_season" title="1951–52 NBA season">1951–52</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1952%E2%80%9353_NBA_season" title="1952–53 NBA season">1952–53</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1953%E2%80%9354_NBA_season" title="1953–54 NBA season">1953–54</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1954%E2%80%9355_NBA_season" title="1954–55 NBA season">1954–55</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1955%E2%80%9356_NBA_season" title="1955–56 NBA season">1955–56</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_NBA_season" title="1956–57 NBA season">1956–57</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358_NBA_season" title="1957–58 NBA season">1957–58</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1958%E2%80%9359_NBA_season" title="1958–59 NBA season">1958–59</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1960s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;padding:0"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1959%E2%80%9360_NBA_season" title="1959–60 NBA season">1959–60</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_NBA_season" title="1960–61 NBA season">1960–61</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1961%E2%80%9362_NBA_season" title="1961–62 NBA season">1961–62</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_NBA_season" title="1962–63 NBA season">1962–63</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_NBA_season" title="1963–64 NBA season">1963–64</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_NBA_season" title="1964–65 NBA season">1964–65</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366_NBA_season" title="1965–66 NBA season">1965–66</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367_NBA_season" title="1966–67 NBA season">1966–67</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_NBA_season" title="1967–68 NBA season">1967–68</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_NBA_season" title="1968–69 NBA season">1968–69</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1970s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;padding:0"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1969%E2%80%9370_NBA_season" title="1969–70 NBA season">1969–70</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1970%E2%80%9371_NBA_season" title="1970–71 NBA season">1970–71</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1971%E2%80%9372_NBA_season" title="1971–72 NBA season">1971–72</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1972%E2%80%9373_NBA_season" title="1972–73 NBA season">1972–73</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1973%E2%80%9374_NBA_season" title="1973–74 NBA season">1973–74</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1974%E2%80%9375_NBA_season" title="1974–75 NBA season">1974–75</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1975%E2%80%9376_NBA_season" title="1975–76 NBA season">1975–76</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1976%E2%80%9377_NBA_season" title="1976–77 NBA season">1976–77</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1977%E2%80%9378_NBA_season" title="1977–78 NBA season">1977–78</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1978%E2%80%9379_NBA_season" title="1978–79 NBA season">1978–79</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1980s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;padding:0"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1979%E2%80%9380_NBA_season" title="1979–80 NBA season">1979–80</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1980%E2%80%9381_NBA_season" title="1980–81 NBA season">1980–81</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1981%E2%80%9382_NBA_season" title="1981–82 NBA season">1981–82</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1982%E2%80%9383_NBA_season" title="1982–83 NBA season">1982–83</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1983%E2%80%9384_NBA_season" title="1983–84 NBA season">1983–84</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1984%E2%80%9385_NBA_season" title="1984–85 NBA season">1984–85</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1985%E2%80%9386_NBA_season" title="1985–86 NBA season">1985–86</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1986%E2%80%9387_NBA_season" title="1986–87 NBA season">1986–87</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%9388_NBA_season" title="1987–88 NBA season">1987–88</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1988%E2%80%9389_NBA_season" title="1988–89 NBA season">1988–89</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;padding:0"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1989%E2%80%9390_NBA_season" title="1989–90 NBA season">1989–90</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1990%E2%80%9391_NBA_season" title="1990–91 NBA season">1990–91</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1991%E2%80%9392_NBA_season" title="1991–92 NBA season">1991–92</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1992%E2%80%9393_NBA_season" title="1992–93 NBA season">1992–93</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1993%E2%80%9394_NBA_season" title="1993–94 NBA season">1993–94</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1994%E2%80%9395_NBA_season" title="1994–95 NBA season">1994–95</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1995%E2%80%9396_NBA_season" title="1995–96 NBA season">1995–96</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1996%E2%80%9397_NBA_season" title="1996–97 NBA season">1996–97</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1997%E2%80%9398_NBA_season" title="1997–98 NBA season">1997–98</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1998%E2%80%9399_NBA_season" title="1998–99 NBA season">1998–99</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;padding:0"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/1999%E2%80%932000_NBA_season" title="1999–2000 NBA season">1999–2000</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_NBA_season" title="2000–01 NBA season">2000–01</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2001%E2%80%9302_NBA_season" title="2001–02 NBA season">2001–02</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2002%E2%80%9303_NBA_season" title="2002–03 NBA season">2002–03</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304_NBA_season" title="2003–04 NBA season">2003–04</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2004%E2%80%9305_NBA_season" title="2004–05 NBA season">2004–05</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2005%E2%80%9306_NBA_season" title="2005–06 NBA season">2005–06</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_NBA_season" title="2006–07 NBA season">2006–07</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2007%E2%80%9308_NBA_season" title="2007–08 NBA season">2007–08</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2008%E2%80%9309_NBA_season" title="2008–09 NBA season">2008–09</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;padding:0"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2009%E2%80%9310_NBA_season" title="2009–10 NBA season">2009–10</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311_NBA_season" title="2010–11 NBA season">2010–11</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312_NBA_season" title="2011–12 NBA season">2011–12</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2012%E2%80%9313_NBA_season" title="2012–13 NBA season">2012–13</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2013%E2%80%9314_NBA_season" title="2013–14 NBA season">2013–14</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2014%E2%80%9315_NBA_season" title="2014–15 NBA season">2014–15</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2015%E2%80%9316_NBA_season" title="2015–16 NBA season">2015–16</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2016%E2%80%9317_NBA_season" title="2016–17 NBA season">2016–17</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2017%E2%80%9318_NBA_season" title="2017–18 NBA season">2017–18</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_NBA_season" title="2018–19 NBA season">2018–19</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"><table style="width:100%;padding:0"><tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_NBA_season" title="2019–20 NBA season">2019–20</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%9321_NBA_season" title="2020–21 NBA season">2020–21</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2021%E2%80%9322_NBA_season" title="2021–22 NBA season">2021–22</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2022%E2%80%9323_NBA_season" title="2022–23 NBA season">2022–23</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2023%E2%80%9324_NBA_season" title="2023–24 NBA season">2023–24</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"> <a href="/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_NBA_season" title="2024–25 NBA season">2024–25</a> </td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"></td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"></td> <td style="text-align:center;width:10%"></td> <td 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title="Basketball">basketball</a> <a href="/wiki/List_of_basketball_leagues" title="List of basketball leagues">leagues</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Intercontinental_Cup" title="FIBA Intercontinental Cup">FIBA Intercontinental Cup</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">National Basketball Association</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_games_played_between_NBA_and_international_teams" title="List of games played between NBA and international teams">NBA vs. international teams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_versus_EuroLeague_games" title="NBA versus EuroLeague games">NBA vs. EuroLeague</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #999999;"><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Africa" title="FIBA Africa">Africa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algerian_Basketball_Championship" title="Algerian Basketball Championship">Algeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Angolan_Basketball_League" title="Angolan Basketball League">Angola</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Angola_Second_Division_Basketball_Championship" title="Angola Second Division Basketball Championship">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benin_Basketball_Super_League" title="Benin Basketball Super League">Benin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Botswana_Basketball_League" title="Botswana Basketball League">Botswana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Burundian_Basketball_Championship" title="Burundian Basketball Championship">Burundi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elite_Messieurs" title="Elite Messieurs">Cameroon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bangui_Basketball_League" title="Bangui Basketball League">Central African Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comoros_Basketball_Championship" title="Comoros Basketball Championship">Comoros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_Basketball_Premier_League" title="Egyptian Basketball Premier League">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligue_1_(Guinea)" title="Ligue 1 (Guinea)">Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligue_d%27Or" title="Ligue d'Or">Ivory Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KBF_Premier_League" title="KBF Premier League">Kenya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liberia_Basketball_Association" title="Liberia Basketball Association">Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libyan_Division_I_Basketball_League" title="Libyan Division I Basketball League">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malagasy_N1A" class="mw-redirect" title="Malagasy N1A">Madagascar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BASMAL_National_Championship" title="BASMAL National Championship">Malawi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ligue_1_(Mali)" title="Ligue 1 (Mali)">Mali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Division_Excellence" title="Division Excellence">Morocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Mo%C3%A7ambicana_de_Basquetebol" title="Liga Moçambicana de Basquetebol">Mozambique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/KBA_Premier_League" title="KBA Premier League">Namibia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Premier_League_(basketball)" title="Nigerian Premier League (basketball)">Nigeria</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBBF_National_Division_One" title="NBBF National Division One">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rwanda_Basketball_League" title="Rwanda Basketball League">Rwanda</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rwanda_Basketball_League_Division_2" title="Rwanda Basketball League Division 2">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationale_1_Masculin" title="Nationale 1 Masculin">Senegal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nationale_2_(Senegal)" title="Nationale 2 (Senegal)">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seychelles_Basketball_League" title="Seychelles Basketball League">Seychelles</a></li> <li>South Africa <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_National_League" title="Basketball National League">BNL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_African_National_Basketball_Championship" title="South African National Basketball Championship">National</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Tanzania)" title="National Basketball League (Tanzania)">Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Championnat_Pro_A" title="Championnat Pro A">Tunisia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Championnat_Nationale_1_(Tunisia)" title="Championnat Nationale 1 (Tunisia)">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Uganda)" title="National Basketball League (Uganda)">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zambia_Basketball_League" title="Zambia Basketball League">Zambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BUZ_National_Championship" title="BUZ National Championship">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #fd3c50;"><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Americas" title="FIBA Americas">Americas</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Nacional_de_B%C3%A1squetbol" title="Liga Nacional de Básquetbol">Argentina</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/La_Liga_Argentina_de_B%C3%A1squet" title="La Liga Argentina de Básquet">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libobasquet" title="Libobasquet">Bolivia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Novo_Basquete_Brasil" title="Novo Basquete Brasil">Brazil</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Ouro_de_Basquete" title="Liga Ouro de Basquete">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Canada</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_Super_League_(North_America)" title="Basketball Super League (North America)">BSL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Elite_Basketball_League" title="Canadian Elite Basketball League">CEBL</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Nacional_de_B%C3%A1squetbol_de_Chile" title="Liga Nacional de Básquetbol de Chile">Chile</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baloncesto_Profesional_Colombiano" title="Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano">Colombia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Superior_de_Baloncesto_(Cuba)" title="Liga Superior de Baloncesto (Cuba)">Cuba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Nacional_de_Baloncesto" title="Liga Nacional de Baloncesto">Dominican Republic</a> (<a href="/wiki/Torneo_Superior_de_Baloncesto" title="Torneo Superior de Baloncesto">Torneo Superior de Baloncesto</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Ecuatoriana_de_Baloncesto" title="Liga Ecuatoriana de Baloncesto">Ecuador</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Mayor_de_Baloncesto" title="Liga Mayor de Baloncesto">El Salvador</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Nacional_de_Baloncesto_Profesional" title="Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional">Mexico</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Circuito_de_Baloncesto_de_la_Costa_del_Pac%C3%ADfico" title="Circuito de Baloncesto de la Costa del Pacífico">CIBACOPA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Superior_de_Baloncesto_(Nicaragua)" title="Liga Superior de Baloncesto (Nicaragua)">Nicaragua</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Profesional_de_Baloncesto_(Panama)" title="Liga Profesional de Baloncesto (Panama)">Panama</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Nacional_de_B%C3%A1squetbol_(Paraguay)" title="Liga Nacional de Básquetbol (Paraguay)">Paraguay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_de_Basket_de_Lima" title="Liga de Basket de Lima">Peru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baloncesto_Superior_Nacional" title="Baloncesto Superior Nacional">Puerto Rico</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">United States</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Uruguaya_de_B%C3%A1squetbol" title="Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol">Uruguay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Superliga_Profesional_de_Baloncesto" title="Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto">Venezuela</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #ffcc00;"><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Asia" title="FIBA Asia">Asia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bahraini_Premier_League_(basketball)" title="Bahraini Premier League (basketball)">Bahrain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Basketball_Association" title="Chinese Basketball Association">China</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(China)" title="National Basketball League (China)">NBL</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hong_Kong_A1_Division_Championship" title="Hong Kong A1 Division Championship">Hong Kong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indian_National_Basketball_League" title="Indian National Basketball League">India</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indonesian_Basketball_League" title="Indonesian Basketball League">Indonesia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iranian_Basketball_Super_League" title="Iranian Basketball Super League">Iran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iraqi_Basketball_Premier_League" title="Iraqi Basketball Premier League">Iraq</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/B.League" title="B.League">Japan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jordanian_Premier_Basketball_League" title="Jordanian Premier Basketball League">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kazakhstan_Basketball_Championship" title="Kazakhstan Basketball Championship">Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuwaiti_Division_I_Basketball_League" title="Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanese_Basketball_League" title="Lebanese Basketball League">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysia_National_Basketball_League" title="Malaysia National Basketball League">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mongolian_National_Basketball_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongolian National Basketball Association">Mongolia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oman_Basketball_League" title="Oman Basketball League">Oman</a></li> <li>Philippines <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philippine_Basketball_Association" title="Philippine Basketball Association">PBA</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/PBA_D-League" title="PBA D-League">PBA D-League</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maharlika_Pilipinas_Basketball_League" title="Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League">MPBL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Philippines)" title="National Basketball League (Philippines)">NBL–Pilipinas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pilipinas_Super_League" title="Pilipinas Super League">PSL</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qatari_Basketball_League" title="Qatari Basketball League">Qatar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saudi_Basketball_League" title="Saudi Basketball League">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pro-Am_Singapore_Basketball_League" title="Pro-Am Singapore Basketball League">Singapore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korean_Basketball_League" title="Korean Basketball League">South Korea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Syrian_Basketball_League" title="Syrian Basketball League">Syria</a></li> <li>Taiwan <ul><li><a href="/wiki/P._League%2B" title="P. League+">P. League+</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taiwan_Professional_Basketball_League" title="Taiwan Professional Basketball League">TPBL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_Basketball_League" title="Super Basketball League">SBL</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thailand_Basketball_League" title="Thailand Basketball League">Thailand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/UAE_National_Basketball_League" title="UAE National Basketball League">United Arab Emirates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vietnam_Basketball_Association" title="Vietnam Basketball Association">Vietnam</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #3399cc;"><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Europe" title="FIBA Europe">Europe</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albanian_Basketball_Superleague" title="Albanian Basketball Superleague">Albania</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Albanian_Basketball_First_Division" title="Albanian Basketball First Division">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Austrian_Basketball_Superliga" title="Austrian Basketball Superliga">Austria</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_Zweite_Liga" title="Basketball Zweite Liga">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armenia_Basketball_League_A" title="Armenia Basketball League A">Armenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_Basketball_League" title="Azerbaijan Basketball League">Azerbaijan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belarusian_Premier_League_(basketball)" title="Belarusian Premier League (basketball)">Belarus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BNXT_League" title="BNXT League">Belgium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_Championship_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_level_basketball_leagues_in_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Second level basketball leagues in Bosnia and Herzegovina">2nd</a> – <a href="/wiki/First_League_of_Republika_Srpska_(basketball)" title="First League of Republika Srpska (basketball)">RS</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Bulgaria)" title="National Basketball League (Bulgaria)">Bulgaria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HT_Premijer_liga" class="mw-redirect" title="HT Premijer liga">Croatia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Men%27s_Basketball_League" title="First Men's Basketball League">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyprus_Basketball_Division_A" title="Cyprus Basketball Division A">Cyprus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Erkekler_Basketbol_S%C3%BCper_Ligi" title="Erkekler Basketbol Süper Ligi">North</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Czech_Republic)" title="National Basketball League (Czech Republic)">Czech Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketligaen" title="Basketligaen">Denmark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korvpalli_Meistriliiga" title="Korvpalli Meistriliiga">Estonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korisliiga" title="Korisliiga">Finland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Koripallon_I-divisioona" title="Koripallon I-divisioona">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LNB_%C3%89lite" title="LNB Élite">France</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LNB_Pro_B" title="LNB Pro B">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nationale_Masculine_1" title="Nationale Masculine 1">3rd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georgian_Superliga" title="Georgian Superliga">Georgia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_Bundesliga" title="Basketball Bundesliga">Germany</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ProA" title="ProA">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ProB" title="ProB">3rd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_League_Basketball" title="Super League Basketball">Great Britain</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(England)" title="National Basketball League (England)">England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_Basketball_Championship_Men" title="Scottish Basketball Championship Men">Scotland</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greek_Basketball_League" title="Greek Basketball League">Greece</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greek_A2_Basket_League" title="Greek A2 Basket League">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemzeti_Bajnoks%C3%A1g_I/A" title="Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A">Hungary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%9Arvalsdeild_karla_(basketball)" title="Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball)">Iceland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Super_League_(Ireland)" title="Super League (Ireland)">Ireland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israeli_Basketball_Premier_League" title="Israeli Basketball Premier League">Israel</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Leumit_(basketball)" title="Liga Leumit (basketball)">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Artzit_(basketball)" title="Liga Artzit (basketball)">3rd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lega_Basket_Serie_A" title="Lega Basket Serie A">Italy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Serie_A2_(basketball)" title="Serie A2 (basketball)">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serie_B_Basket" title="Serie B Basket">3rd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosovo_Basketball_Superleague" title="Kosovo Basketball Superleague">Kosovo</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kosovo_Basketball_First_League" title="Kosovo Basketball First League">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvijas_Basketbola_l%C4%ABga" title="Latvijas Basketbola līga">Latvia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lietuvos_krep%C5%A1inio_lyga" title="Lietuvos krepšinio lyga">Lithuania</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Lithuania)" title="National Basketball League (Lithuania)">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Regional_Basketball_League_(Lithuania)" title="Regional Basketball League (Lithuania)">3rd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luxembourg_Basketball_League" title="Luxembourg Basketball League">Luxembourg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moldovan_National_Division_(basketball)" title="Moldovan National Division (basketball)">Moldova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prva_A_Liga" title="Prva A Liga">Montenegro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BNXT_League" title="BNXT League">Netherlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Macedonian_First_League_(basketball)" title="Macedonian First League (basketball)">North Macedonia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketligaen_Norge" title="Basketligaen Norge">Norway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polish_Basketball_League" title="Polish Basketball League">Poland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/I_Liga_(basketball)" title="I Liga (basketball)">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Portuguesa_de_Basquetebol" title="Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol">Portugal</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Proliga_(Portugal)" title="Proliga (Portugal)">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Na%C8%9Bional%C4%83_(men%27s_basketball)" title="Liga Națională (men's basketball)">Romania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VTB_United_League" title="VTB United League">Russia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Russian_Basketball_Super_League_1" title="Russian Basketball Super League 1">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_League_of_Serbia" title="Basketball League of Serbia">Serbia</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Second_Basketball_League_of_Serbia" title="Second Basketball League of Serbia">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Regional_Basketball_League" title="First Regional Basketball League">3rd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Regional_Basketball_League" title="Second Regional Basketball League">4th</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovak_Basketball_League" title="Slovak Basketball League">Slovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slovenian_Basketball_League" title="Slovenian Basketball League">Slovenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_ACB" title="Liga ACB">Spain</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Espa%C3%B1ola_de_Baloncesto" class="mw-redirect" title="Liga Española de Baloncesto">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LEB_Plata" class="mw-redirect" title="LEB Plata">3rd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swedish_Basketball_League" title="Swedish Basketball League">Sweden</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Superettan_(basketball)" title="Superettan (basketball)">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketettan" title="Basketettan">3rd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swiss_Basketball_League" title="Swiss Basketball League">Switzerland</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Championnat_LNB" title="Championnat LNB">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketbol_S%C3%BCper_Ligi" title="Basketbol Süper Ligi">Turkey</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%BCrkiye_Basketbol_Ligi" title="Türkiye Basketbol Ligi">2nd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turkish_Basketball_Second_League" title="Turkish Basketball Second League">3rd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Basketball_SuperLeague" title="Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague">Ukraine</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ukrainian_Higher_League_(basketball)" title="Ukrainian Higher League (basketball)">2nd</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #009933;"><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Oceania" title="FIBA Oceania">Oceania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(Australia)" title="National Basketball League (Australia)">Australia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_(New_Zealand)" title="National Basketball League (New Zealand)">New Zealand</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #252525;">International tournaments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_Africa_League" title="Basketball Africa League">Basketball Africa League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Club_Basketball_Championship" title="Arab Club Basketball Championship">Arab Club Basketball Championship</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Americas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_Champions_League_Americas" title="Basketball Champions League Americas">FIBA Champions League Americas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liga_Sudamericana_de_Baloncesto" title="Liga Sudamericana de Baloncesto">FIBA South American League</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_Champions_League_Asia" title="Basketball Champions League Asia">Basketball Champions League Asia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Asia_Super_League" title="East Asia Super League">East Asia Super League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Asia_Super_League" class="mw-redirect" title="West Asia Super League">West Asia Super League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_Club_Basketball_Championship" title="Arab Club Basketball Championship">Arab Club Basketball Championship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AsiaBasket" title="AsiaBasket">AsiaBasket</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/EuroLeague" title="EuroLeague">EuroLeague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EuroCup_Basketball" title="EuroCup Basketball">EuroCup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basketball_Champions_League" title="Basketball Champions League">FIBA Champions League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Europe_Cup" title="FIBA Europe Cup">FIBA Europe Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ABA_League" title="ABA League">Adriatic League</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ABA_League_Second_Division" title="ABA League Second Division">2nd</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alpe_Adria_Cup" title="Alpe Adria Cup">Alpe Adria Cup</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balkan_International_Basketball_League" title="Balkan International Basketball League">Balkan League</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Caucasus_Basketball_League&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Caucasus Basketball League (page does not exist)">Caucasus Basketball League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_North_Basketball_League" title="European North Basketball League">European North Basketball League</a></li> <li><a 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League</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Americas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FIBA_Americas_League" title="FIBA Americas League">FIBA Americas League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campeonato_Panamericano_de_Clubes_de_B%C3%A1squetbol" title="Campeonato Panamericano de Clubes de Básquetbol">Pan American Championship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campeonato_Sudamericano_de_Clubes_Campeones_de_B%C3%A1squetbol" title="Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes Campeones de Básquetbol">South American Championship</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Torneo_Interligas_de_B%C3%A1squet" title="Torneo Interligas de Básquet">Torneo InterLigas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campeonato_Argentino_de_Clubes_de_B%C3%A1squet" title="Campeonato Argentino de Clubes de Básquet">Argentina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campeonato_Brasileiro_de_Basquete" title="Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete">Brazil</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Divisi%C3%B3n_Mayor_del_B%C3%A1squetbol_de_Chile" title="División Mayor del Básquetbol de Chile">Chile</a></li> <li>Canada <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_League_of_Canada" title="National Basketball League of Canada">NBLC</a></li></ul></li> <li>United States <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Basketball_Association" title="American Basketball Association">ABA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Continental_Basketball_Association" title="Continental Basketball Association">CBA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Basketball_League" title="United States Basketball League">USBL</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campeonato_Uruguayo_Federal_de_B%C3%A1squetbol" title="Campeonato Uruguayo Federal de Básquetbol">Uruguay</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div 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class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Men's</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Baseball" title="Major League Baseball">Baseball</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Basketball</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Cricket" title="Major League Cricket">Cricket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">American football</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Football_League" title="Canadian Football League">Canadian football</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arena_football" title="Arena football">Arena football</a> (<a href="/wiki/Arena_Football_One_(2025)" title="Arena Football One (2025)">AF1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indoor_Football_League" title="Indoor Football League">IFL</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Hockey_League" title="National Hockey League">Ice hockey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Lacrosse_League" title="National Lacrosse League">Box lacrosse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premier_Lacrosse_League" title="Premier Lacrosse League">Field lacrosse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/USA_Rugby_League" title="USA Rugby League">Rugby league</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Rugby" title="Major League Rugby">Rugby union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premier_Rugby_Sevens" title="Premier Rugby Sevens">Rugby sevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_League_Soccer" title="Major League Soccer">Soccer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Major_Arena_Soccer_League" title="Major Arena Soccer League">Indoor soccer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ultimate_Frisbee_Association" title="Ultimate Frisbee Association">Ultimate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Volleyball_Association_(US)" class="mw-redirect" title="National Volleyball Association (US)">Volleyball</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:6em">Women's</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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