24 Facts About NBA

NBA is an active member of USA Basketball, which is recognized by the FIBA as the national governing body for basketball in the United States.

In North America, the NBA is the third wealthiest professional sport league after the National Football League and Major League Baseball by revenue, and among the top four in the world.

On November 1,1946, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Toronto Huskies hosted the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens, in a game the NBA now refers to as the first game played in NBA history.

NBA remained the only non-white player in league history prior to the first African-American, Harold Hunter, signing with the Washington Capitols in 1950.

The NBA landed the most important college star of the era, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

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However, the NBA's leading scorer, Rick Barry, jumped to the ABA, as did four veteran referees—Norm Drucker, Earl Strom, John Vanak, and Joe Gushue.

Also in the early 1980s, the NBA added one more expansion franchise, the Dallas Mavericks, bringing the total to 23 teams.

In 1995, the NBA expanded to Canada with the addition of the Vancouver Grizzlies and the Toronto Raptors.

In 1996, the NBA created a women's league, the Women's National Basketball Association.

In 1998, the NBA owners began a lockout that suspended all league business until a new labor agreement could be reached, which led to the season being shortened in half.

The NBA started its drug-testing program in 1983 and substantially improved it in 1999.

NBA led the team to their second Finals appearance with the help of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love.

Since 2006, the NBA has faced EuroLeague teams in exhibition matches in the NBA Europe Live Tour, and since 2009, in the EuroLeague American Tour.

Two years after the Hornets' move to New Orleans, the NBA returned to North Carolina, as the Charlotte Bobcats were formed as an expansion team in 2004.

The NBA would become the first major North American professional sports league to allow corporate sponsorship logos on official team uniforms, and the last to have a uniform manufacturer logo appear on its team uniforms.

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.

NBA originated in 1946 with 11 teams, and through a sequence of team expansions, reductions and relocations currently consists of 30 teams.

NBA is the only league that regularly schedules games on Christmas Day.

The winner of the NBA Finals receives the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy.

From 1987 to 1999 an NBA team played against championship club teams from Asia, Europe and South America in the McDonald's Championship.

NBA has been involved in a number of controversies over the years and has received a significant amount of criticism.

Since 2006, the NBA has faced EuroLeague teams in exhibition matches in the NBA Europe Live Tour, and since 2009 in the EuroLeague American Tour.

The NBA defines "international" players as those born outside the 50 United States and Washington, DC This means that:.

League has a global social responsibility program, NBA Cares, that is responsible for the league's stated mission of addressing important social issues worldwide.