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The National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) is the labor union that represents National Basketball Association (NBA) players. It was founded in 1954, making it the oldest trade union of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. However, the NBPA did not get recognition by NBA team owners until ten years ...
The National Basketball Retired Players Association (NBRPA) is a non-profit association composed of former professional basketball players of the NBA, ABA, Harlem Globetrotters, and WNBA. [1] It was founded in 1992 by NBA Hall of Famers Dave DeBusschere , Dave Bing , Dave Cowens , Oscar Robertson and former NBA point guard Archie Clark .
In basketball, traveling is a violation of the rules of basketball in which a player takes more than a predefined number of steps while holding the ball. Taking more steps without dribbling than this limit will result in a turnover and possession of the ball for the other team.
Pages in category "National Basketball Players Association presidents" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Women's National Basketball Players Association (WNBPA) was formed in 1998 after the end of the WNBA league's second season. [1] [2] Players were protesting average salaries of $30,000 (equivalent to $56,080 in 2023) and lack of health care benefits, retirement plans, and revenue sharing. [2]
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. [3]
Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...
The Australian Basketball Players' Association adopted its current name in 2019 as part of an organisational rebrand; the rebrand placed players as central to the organisations name and logo, in order to recognise that the players are at the heart of everything the organisation does. [3]