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Continental Basketball Association (CBA), 1946–2009; [1] originally named Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League, then Eastern Professional Basketball League. Professional Basketball League of America (PBLA), 1947–1948
All-American Basketball Alliance; All-American Basketball Alliance (2010) All-American Professional Basketball League; American Basketball Association; American Basketball League (1925–1955) American Basketball League (1961–1962) American Basketball League (2013–2015) American Professional Basketball League
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional men's basketball league, consisting of thirty teams in North America (twenty-nine in the United States and one in Canada). The NBA was founded in New York City on June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). [1]
Defunct basketball leagues in the United States (13 C, 45 P) Women's basketball leagues in the United States (3 C, 4 P) Seasons in American basketball by league (9 C)
The National Basketball League (NBL) was a professional basketball league in the United States. Established in 1935 as the Midwest Basketball Conference , it changed its name to the NBL in 1937. After the 1948–49 season, its twelfth, it merged with the Basketball Association of America (BAA) to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).
The Falcons played only in the inaugural season of the BAA and finished 4th in the Western Division with a 20–40 record, 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 games out of first place. Stan Miasek was the team's star, scoring 895 points (14.9 points per game) and making the BAA's First-Team that year.
American Basketball League (ABL) is a name that has been used by four defunct basketball leagues in the US: American Basketball League (1925–1955), the first major professional basketball league; American Basketball League (1961–1962), a league that only played a single full season; American Basketball League (1996–1998), a women's ...
When the BAA was founded, there were two established professional leagues in the United States: the American Basketball League (ABL) in the East, founded 1925, and the National Basketball League (NBL) in Midwestern industrial cities, founded 1937. However, most of the ABL and NBL teams played in small arenas, and in some cases even ballrooms or ...