Although the National Football League was established in 1920 (at $100 a franchise), the professional game was a relatively minor affair until after World War II, when football joined baseball and basketball to form the "trinity" of American sports.
American Basketball Association (ABA), former professional basketball league formed in the United States in 1967 to rival the older National Basketball Association NBAA).
National Basketball Association NBAA), professional basketball league formed in the United States in 1949 by the merger of two rival organizations, the National Basketball League (founded 1937) and the Basketball Association of America (founded 1946).
The fan said he understood why Syracuse had walked away from Georgetown, its bitter rival, and Connecticut, and all it had built as a charter member of a great basketball league formed in 1979.
The Junior Phenom Camp was grass-roots basketball in distilled form — a caldron of ambition, networking, gossip and backbiting.
Still, Tarkanian's presence hangs over college basketball's modern form, even if Tarkanian himself has faded away.
Mr. Murphy, a vice president at Marsh & McLennan, formed basketball leagues.
A national basketball league was formed in 1960, and there are dozens of amateur teams throughout Malta and Gozo.
A group of influential figures in college athletics, including three prominent basketball coaches, have formed the College Basketball Partnership, which will work toward improving the sport.
At the Edge, a condo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where prices range from $395,000, for a studio, to $2.835 million for a three-bedroom, residents are forming basketball leagues that play in what the builder, Douglaston Development, calls a "multipurpose athletic space".
