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  2. Major professional sports leagues in the United States and ...

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    Each of the Big Four leagues has at least 30 teams (the NFL has had 32 teams since 2002 and the NHL added its 32nd team in 2021), and each has had at least 29 teams since the year 2000. Major League Soccer adopted a policy of continuous expansion at a rate of one to two new franchises a year since 2005, and reached 30 teams in 2025 with the ...

  3. List of U.S. and Canadian cities by number of major ...

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    The following list contains all urban areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the six major leagues. The number of teams in the Big Four leagues (B4) (NFL, [2] MLB, [3] NBA, [4] and NHL [5]) and the Big Six leagues (B6) (aforementioned leagues plus MLS [6] and CFL) [7] are included in the table below.

  4. Superteams in the NBA - Wikipedia

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    A superteam in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is an arbitrary term to describe a team that uses player acquisitions (via trades or free agency) in a short period of time to create a higher than average concentration of top-level players.

  5. ‘I realized that this was bigger than basketball’: Former NBA ...

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    South Sudan’s men’s basketball team defeated Puerto Rico 90-79 in Paris on Sunday in its first ever appearance at the Games, but the result meant more than just picking up two points in Group C.

  6. National Basketball Association - Wikipedia

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    The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world.

  7. Ranking the 50 best players who spent their entire careers ...

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    Despite a brief hiccup in the mid-2000s, Kobe's relationship with the Los Angeles Lakers has lived on harmoniously enough to live on eternally. (Even if Phil Jackson predicted otherwise .)

  8. Outline of basketball - Wikipedia

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    Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...

  9. Sports At Any Cost - The Huffington Post

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    But less than $70,000 was earmarked for football. And the team still spends $4.2 million more than it brings in. The men’s basketball team had a brief moment in the spotlight in the spring, after it knocked off heavily favored Baylor University in the NCAA tournament and a clip of its coach falling out of his chair in excitement went viral.