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CCTV5 Sports
CCTV-5 (Chinese: 中国中央电视台体育频道), also known as the Sports Channel, part
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CCTV5+
CCTV-5+ (Sports Plus) (Chinese: 中国中央电视台体育赛事频道) formerly CCTV-HD i
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Great Sports
Great Sports advocates healthy lifestyle, closely follows major sporting events, and spreads the spirit of sports. A numb
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QQ Live
QQ Live, the most full sports video live broadcast platform, providing free live NBA, football and basketball hot live ga
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Fox Sports 1
Fox Sports 1 (FS1) is an American pay television channel that is owned by the Fox Sports Media Group, a unit of Fox Corpo
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Videoland Sports
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KBS N sports
KBS N Sports is a paid TV channel of KBS N, a subsidiary of the Korean Broadcasting Commune, which mainly broadcasts spor
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SBS Sports
SBS Sports is a special sports channel proud of history and tradition in Korea, which broadcasts professional baseball, p
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Jilin Basketball Channel
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NBA TV
NBA TV is an American sports-oriented pay television network that is owned by the National Basketball Association (NBA) a
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ESPN
ESPN (originally an initialism for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is a U.S.-based sports television channe
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Sky Sports
Sky Sports is a group of subscription-television sports channels operated by the satellite pay-TV company Sky, a division
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J SPORTS 1
J Sports 1 is a Japanese sports channel, which mainly broadcasts sports events in Japan and is the largest live sports ch
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STAR Sports
Star Sports (formerly Prime Sports) was a television sports channel operated by Fox International Channels Asia Pacific (
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BT Sport
BT Sport is a group of sports television channels provided by BT Consumer; a division of BT Group in the United Kingdom a
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NBC Sports
NBC Sports is the programming division of the American broadcast network NBC, owned by the NBCUniversal Television Group
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CBS Sports
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The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). It is widely considered to be the premier men's professional basketball league in the world. The NBA is an active member of USA Basketball (USAB),which is recognized by FIBA (also known as the International Basketball Federation) as the national governing body for basketball in the United States. The NBA is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. NBA players are the world's best paid athletes by average annual salary per player.
The league was founded in New York City on June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA).The league adopted the name National Basketball Association on August 3, 1949, after merging with the competing National Basketball League (NBL). The league's several international as well as individual team offices are directed out of its head offices located in the Olympic Tower at 645 Fifth Avenue in New York, NY. NBA Entertainment and NBA TV studios are directed out of offices located in Secaucus, New Jersey.
The NBA originated in 1946 with 11 teams, and through a sequence of team expansions, reductions, and relocations currently consists of 30 teams. The United States is home to 29 teams and one is located in Canada.
The current league organization divides thirty teams into two conferences of three divisions with five teams each. The current divisional alignment was introduced in the 2004–05 season. Reflecting the population distribution of the United States and Canada as a whole, most teams are in the eastern half of the country: thirteen teams are in the Eastern Time Zone, nine in the Central, three in the Mountain, and five in the Pacific.