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National Basketball League (Lithuania) Teams
National Basketball League may refer to: * Indian National Basketball League * Malaysia National Basketball League * National Basketball League (1898–1904), U.S., first professional men's basketball league in the world * National Basketball League (United States), 1937–49 * National Basketball League (Australia) * National Basketball League (Bulgaria) * National Basketball League (Canada), 1993–94 * National Basketball League of Canada * National Basketball League (China), professional men's basketball minor league in China * National Basketball League (Czech Republic) * National Basketball League (England) * National Basketball League (Indonesia) * National Basketball League (Japan) * National Basketball League (Kazakhstan) * National Basketball League (Lithuania), semi-professional men's basketball league * National Basketball League (New Zealand), semi-professional men's basketball league * National Basketball League (Philippines), professional men's basketball league * Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indian National Basketball League
The Indian National Basketball League, aka INBL, is a developmental professional basketball in India, basketball league in India. In 2025, it shifted to a league for players under the age of 25. History The INBL was founded in 2021.Indian National Basketball League from 4 January ''The Hindu'', 18 November 2021. Accessed 23 February 2022. The league was granted a five-year license by the Basketball Federation of India (BFI) to run the competition and also help promote the 3x3 basketball, 3x3 version of the game. In its first season, the INBL allowed only Indian players to participate, with the aim being to provide players with additional competitive games to improve their standards towards th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Basketball League (Lithuania)
The National Basketball League (NKL) (), also known as 7bet-NKL for sponsorship reasons, is the second-tier basketball minor league in Lithuania. It is placed below the top division Lietuvos krepšinio lyga (LKL). The competition currently consists of 15 teams. The champions of the league have the option to promote to the LKL. However, this rarely happens, as most clubs do not meet the requirements for budget and seating capacity. History The league was established in 2005, when the second division LKAL (Lietuvos Krepšinio A Lyga, ''Lithuanian Basketball A League'') was abolished and split into two divisions, the NKL, which is its direct successor, and the newly founded third division Regional Basketball League (Lithuania), RKL. Current teams and venues NKL necessitates an arena with a seating capacity of 500 in order to enter in the competition.https://nklyga.lt/config/nklyga.lt/files/8/13998.pdf League champions Titles by club Marks defunct or inactive former winners of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Industrial Basketball League
The National Industrial Basketball League was founded in 1947 to enable U.S. mill workers a chance to compete in basketball. The league was founded by the industrial teams (teams sponsored by the large companies and made up of their employees) belonging to the National Basketball League (United States), National Basketball League (NBL) that did not join the National Basketball Association when the NBL merged with the Basketball Association of America. The NIBL teams participated every year in the List of AAU men's basketball champions, AAU National tournament against teams from other amateur or semi-professional leagues. League history The league's first year, 1947–48, featured five teams in an eight-game schedule—the Milwaukee Harnischfeger's (which won the round robin schedule with an 8–0 record), Caterpillar Diesels, Peoria Caterpillars, Milwaukee Allen-Bradleys, Akron Goodyear Wingfoots, and Fort Wayne General Electrics. The following season (1948–1949), with a 16-game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world. The league is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. The NBA was created on August 3, 1949, with the merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and the National Basketball League (United States), National Basketball League (NBL). The league later adopted the BAA's history and considers its founding on June 6, 1946, as its own. In 1976, the NBA and the American Basketball Association (ABA) ABA–NBA merger, merged, adding four franchises to the NBA. The NBA's regular season runs from October to April, with each team playing 82 games. The NBA playoffs, league's playoff tournament extends into June, culminating with the NBA Finals championship series. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Basketball League (1961–1962)
The American Basketball League played one full season, 1961–1962, and approximately one-third of the next season until the league folded on December 31, 1962. The ABL was the first basketball league to have a three-point field goal for shots attempted from longer distance. Other rules that set the league apart from the National Basketball Association (NBA) were a 30-second shot clock, as opposed to 24, and a wider free throw lane of 18 feet instead of the NBA's then-standard 12; the NBA would later expand their free throw lane to 16 feet (a couple of feet shorter than the ABL's free throw lane) a few years later in 1964, partially as a means of preventing the dominance of center play there, which is still in use as that to this day. Formation The league was formed when Harlem Globetrotters owner Abe Saperstein was not awarded the Los Angeles NBA franchise he felt he had been promised in return for his years of supporting the NBA with doubleheader games featuring his hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Basketball League (1925–1955)
The American Basketball League (ABL) was an early professional basketball league. During six seasons from 1925–26 to 1930–31, the ABL was the first attempt to create a major professional basketball league in the United States. History Joseph Carr, who was in 1925 the president of then-new National Football League, organized the ABL from nine of the best independent pro teams from the East and the Midwest.David S. Neft and Richard M. Cohen, ''The Sports Encyclopedia: Pro Basketball'' (5th Edition) (St. Martin's Press, 1992) pp. 12–18 George Halas of the NFL Chicago Bears was the owner of the Chicago Bruins, and department store magnate Max Rosenblum, a part owner of the NFL's Cleveland Bulldogs, financed the Cleveland Rosenblums. Future NFL (Washington Redskins) owner George Preston Marshall, the owner of a chain of laundries, was owner of the Washington Palace Five. Other teams were the Boston Whirlwinds, Brooklyn Arcadians, Buffalo Bisons, Detroit Pulaski Post Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BASEketball
''BASEketball'' is a 1998 American sports comedy film cowritten and directed by David Zucker, starring ''South Park'' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and costarring Yasmine Bleeth, Jenny McCarthy, Robert Vaughn, Ernest Borgnine and Dian Bachar. The film is about BASEketball, a hybrid sport combining baseball and basketball, invented by Zucker in the 1980s. Parker and Stone play childhood friends who envision it as something they could win against athletes. It becomes an overnight sensation and a target of corporate sponsorship. This is the only work involving the stars that was neither written, directed nor produced by them. It was a box office disappointment with mixed critical reviews, but in the years since its release has gained a cult following and is credited with coining the slang term " derp". Plot Milwaukee slackers and lifelong best friends Joseph R. "Coop" Cooper and Douglas "Doug" Remer gate crash the college graduation party of a high-school friend and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UAE National Basketball League
The UAE National Basketball League is the top professional basketball league in the United Arab Emirates. The league was founded in 2013 and features 7 teams. basketball.de, 13 July 2020. Accessed 3 December 2021. The most decorated team in the league is Shabab Al Ahli who have won eight of the nine championships thus far. Current clubs References External links UAE basketball at As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Basketball League (Uganda)
The National Basketball League is a semi-professional basketball league in Uganda that is the highest division of men's basketball in the country. The league currently consists of 13 teams. Established in 1995, media often highlights the league's physicality. The City Oilers dominated during the 2010s, winning seven straight NBL titles. The Oilers are the league's most decorated team with ten won championships, which were all won consecutively. The champions of each season qualify for the Road to BAL, the qualifying rounds of the Basketball Africa League (BAL). History Basketball was introduced in Uganda in 1962, by the American Peace Corps and East African teachers. During the 1970s and 80s, economic hardship in the country meant a decline of the sport in the country as many schools abandoned the game. A national basketball league was founded in 1995 and started with six teams: the Kyambogo Warriors, Blue Jackets, Power Basketball Club, Black Power, Rhino, Sky Jammers and Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Basketball League (Singapore)
The National Basketball League (NBL) is the first-tier basketball league in Singapore. It was established in 2011 and founded by the Basketball Association of Singapore (BAS). The league currently exists out of twelve teams. The champions of each season are eligible to play in the qualifying rounds of the Basketball Champions League Asia. Siglap Basketball Club and Engtat Hornets hold the record for most championships with three each. Current teams * Adroit Club, Adroit * SAFSA * Nanyang * Eng Tat Hornets * SG Basketball * Siglap Basketball Club * Tagawa * Tong Whye * Chong Ghee * SBA * Team Zebra * Singapore Xin Hua Sports Club#Basketball, Xin Hua Sports Club Results See also * Asean Basketball League (ABL) * Pro-Am Singapore Basketball League (Pro-Am SBL) References External links {{Men's professional basketball leagues Sports leagues in Singapore Basketball competitions in Singapore, League Professional sports leagues in Singapore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Basketball League (Rwanda)
The Rwanda Basketball League (RBL) (formerly the National Basketball League Rwanda) is the top professional basketball league in Rwanda. Its season usually runs from November to September. The winners of the NBL season qualify for the qualifiers for the Basketball Africa League (BAL). The league currently consists of 10 teams, most of them being from the country's capital Kigali. The current champion of the RBL are APR, who are the league’s most decorated team with a record 15 championships. Other notable teams are REG and their rivals Patriots, who have been powerhouses in recent years. Since the 2021–22 season, the FERWABA also organises the RBL Division 2 to which the bottom two teams of the RBL relegate. History Basketball was introduced in Rwanda in 1930 by Catholic priests, who first taught the sport at high schools in the Southern Province. The following decades, the presence of the sport increased as the military and some public institutions created basketba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Basketball League (Philippines)
The National Basketball League (NBL), also known as the NBL–Pilipinas, is a men's regional professional basketball league in the Philippines. History On June 7, 2018, Celso "Soy" Mercado established the league and named National Basketball League Philippines to search undiscovered talents. The league will feature an away-and-home format and will focus on giving homegrown players (aged 18–29 years old and a bonafide resident of the team's province, city or municipality) an opportunity to showcase their skills in the hope of making it to the professional and semi-professional leagues. The league began its inaugural season on August 25, 2018, with 10 teams from Luzon. Games were played every Saturdays and Sundays. The Parañaque Aces became the league's first champions after defeating the Dasmariñas Ballers in the best-of-three championship round. In 2019, the league expanded to 15 teams, while two of the founding teams folded (Marikina Shoemakers and Bulacan Makabayan). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
