National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional American basketball league. The current commissioner of the NBA is Adam Silver.
The NBA is also mostly popular in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Eastern European countries, and Mediterranean countries. It is also growing in popularity in many South American countries, Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia.
History
The official formation of the NBA took place in 1949 via a merger of the Basketball Association of America (BAA, founded in 1946 and consisting mainly of teams located in large metropolitan areas) and the National Basketball League (NBL, founded in 1937). However, the NBA considers the BAA to be the official beginning of the league, given that there were more BAA teams than NBL teams at the time of the merger, and nearly all NBL records were not recognized by the new league.
By 1954, the League had contracted to only eight professional teams. The NBA was considerably strengthened, however, by the fact that many of its small market franchises moved and expanded to more populated areas. In 1976 the NBA would merge with another competing league, the American Basketball Association (ABA), by absorbing four of its franchises. Otherwise, all other franchises were added via expansion.
Organization
The NBA consists of 30 franchises, all but one of which (the Toronto Raptors) is located in the United States.
The league is organized into two conferences, each of which consists of three, five-team divisions.
Beginning with the 2019-2020 season, the divisions exist for purposes of reducing travel among nearby teams and determining tie-breakers but no longer does a division champion receive a preferential seeding. Instead, the top six teams from each conference make the playoffs regardless of divisional success, while the next four teams from each conference enter a "play-in tournament" with the 7-8 seeds and 9-10 seeds playing each other in a single game; the 7-8 winner gets the 7 seed, the 9-10 loser is eliminated, and the 7-8 loser plays the 9-10 winner for the 8 seed. (The play-in tournament was introduced for the COVID-affected 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons due to players being unable to play during the season due to COVID infection or exposure, but the NBA chose to maintain it to allow a team who may have lost a key player due to injury a chance to make the playoffs, as well as to increase teams attempting to make the playoffs instead of "tanking" for a better draft choice.) The higher-seeded team, whether in the play-in tournament or the playoffs, has home-court advantage, with the overall #1 seed keeping advantage through the NBA Finals.
After the play-in tournament, the playoff consists of four rounds, each series best-of-seven. The first round is 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, and 4-5, the second round consists of the 1-8 winner playing the 4-5 winner and the 2-7 winner playing the 3-6 winner (there is not re-seeding as in the NFL or NHL playoffs), the third round is the conference finals, and the fourth round is the NBA Finals consisting of the conference champions.
Liberalism in the NBA
Liberal politics has sent the league spirally downward in recent years. The NBA officially supports Uyghur genocide and slave labor.
NBA vigorously supports BLM arsonists and insurrectionists. LeBron James, leading this movement, is a Joe Biden supporting insurrectionist and domestic terrorist.
The NBA Social Justice Coalition released the following statement after the verdict in the Kenosha riots case:
| "Our thoughts are with the families of those whose lives were taken in this tragedy. The right to peacefully protest is a bedrock of our democracy and the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition remains committed to preserving that right for all. Any forms of vigilantism in our society are unacceptable.”[1] |
Of those whose lives were taken in this tragedy", all were attempting to murder Kyle Rittenhouse. One was a 5-time convicted child rapist and the other convicted on multiple counts of domestic abuse and violence against women. A third criminal assailant was illegally in possession of a handgun after being convicted on a firearms charge, which he had pointed at the victim's head, and was subsequently shot in self-defense.
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NBA Teams
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