The National Basketball Association, known as the NBA is the top league for all professional basketball players in North America. If America no longer has the best basketball team in the world, it definitely still has the most competitive and arguably the best basketball league in the world.
It consist of thirty franchised member clubs. Twenty-nine of them are located in the United States and one of them is in Canada. It is (the NBA ) one of the four top North America sports leagues. It was founded in New York on June the 6th 1946 as the Basketball Association of America (BAA) and later adopted the National Basketball Association as a name in 1949 after it merged with the National Basketball League (NBL) which was its rival until then.
What may come as a surprise to some of you is that the founders of the association did not actually have their roots in basketball, but were owners of the biggest and most well-known ice hockey arenas in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Canada.
The first game played in the leagues history is considered to have taken place on November the 1st in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was hosted by the Toronto Huskies who played against the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens.
When the league was formed on August the 3rd 1949 - when the BAA agreed to merge with the NBL to create the NBA, the new league had seventeen franchises at the time. The years that followed saw it gradually consolidate to eleven franchises – a process which did not end till 1954 when the league reached its smallest size of eight franchises. American Football, basketball and ice hockey draw some of the biggest viewing crowds and in America and the betting interest they generate is growing yearly. If you would like to find out more about the teams where to perhaps place your bets in the upcoming seasons, look up bet on hockey or NFL betting. ...And... remember me when you when as the person who told you about them.
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