"... Turquoise was chosen because the greenish-blue stone is indigenous to Arizona, copper because Arizona is one the nation's top copper-producing states and purple because it has become a favorite color for Arizona sports fans, thanks to the success of the National Basketball Association's Phoenix Suns.

Basketball is a team sport, the objective being to shoot a ball through a basket horizontally positioned to score points while following a set of rules.

Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.

See, e. g., Clearfield Trust Co. v. United States, ( giving federal courts the authority to fashion common law rules with respect to issues of federal power, in this case negotiable instruments backed by the federal government ); see also International News Service v. Associated Press, 248 U. S. 215 ( 1918 ) ( creating a cause of action for misappropriation of " hot news " that lacks any statutory grounding, but that is one of the handful of federal common law actions that survives today ); National Basketball Association v. Motorola, Inc., 105 F. 3d 841, 843-44, 853 ( 2d Cir.

* 1940 – Basketball is televised for the first time ( Fordham University vs. the University of Pittsburgh in Madison Square Garden ).

The Indiana Fever is a professional women's basketball team that plays in the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

* Iran Basketball Federation ( IBF ) is a basketball league in Iran

* 1946 – The National Basketball Association is created, with eleven original teams.

* In the video game NBA 2K12, " Basketball " is used in the opening video and is also part of the game's soundtrack.

Basketball is also fairly a big sport in the city, including the clubs Malbas and SF Srbija among others.

Honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he is commonly referred to as " the voice of basketball.

The National Basketball Association ( NBA ) is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America.

It 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.

* 1967 – The first game in the history of the American Basketball Association is played as the Anaheim Amigos lose to the Oakland Oaks 134-129 in Oakland, California.

A contributor to the growth of sneaker collecting is the continued worldwide popularity of the Air Jordan line of sneakers designed by Nike for Basketball star Michael Jordan.

They ultimately changed the lyrics from " The ball is kicked " to " The ball is tipped ", and the song is now played at the end of the network's NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship coverage.

Basketball is also played but mainly in the army and schools.

The FIBA European Women ’ s Basketball Championship is a bi-annual women ’ s basketball competition between national teams organised by FIBA Europe, the sport's governing body in Europe.

The FIBA European Basketball Championship is a bi-annual basketball competition between national teams organised by FIBA Europe, the sport's governing body in Europe.

In addition to organized sports betting, both legal and illegal, there are many side-betting games played by casual groups of spectators, such as NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket Pools, Super Bowl Squares, Fantasy Sports Leagues with monetary entry fees and winnings, and in-person spectator games like Moundball.

* The Notre Dame Men's Basketball team was crowned National Champions of the 1926-1927 basketball season as well as the 1935-1936 basketball season by the Helms Athletic Foundation.

The stadium also features a retractable roof, with electrification technology developed by VAHLE, Inc. Other than being the home of the Colts, the stadium will host games in both the Men's and Women's NCAA Basketball Tournaments and will serve as the back up host for all NCAA Final Four Tournaments.

* 1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association by scoring 100 points.

* Curt Gowdy Media Award – awarded by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 1994.

The Basketball Association of America was founded in 1946 by owners of the major ice hockey arenas in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Canada.

Winfield was also drafted by the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association.

** Duke defeats Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball by the score of 72-65 to claim the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship.

On the heels of a much-publicized gold medal run by the 1996 USA Basketball Women's National Team at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, the WNBA began its first season on June 21, 1997 to little fanfare.

During their run of four Stanley Cup championships and a fifth finals appearance, the Islanders won 19 straight playoff series, the longest streak in the history of professional sports ( one more than the 1959 – 67 streak by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ).

In the meantime, General Manager Pat Williams was promoted to Senior Executive Vice President and replaced by the Vice President of Basketball Operations John Gabriel on April 29, 1996.

Prior to the beginning of training camps, however, the NBA owners, led by commissioner David Stern, locked out the players in order to force a new collective bargaining agreement with the National Basketball Players Association ( NBPA ).

Angered by management's failure to pay him certain incentive awards he felt he was due, Barry sat out the 1967 – 68 season, joining the Oakland Oaks of the rival American Basketball Association the following year.

Milan High School Basketball Team, 1954. The film is very loosely based on the story of the 1954 Indiana state champions, Milan High School ( ), but the term " inspired by a true story " may be more appropriate, as there was little the two teams had in common.

The men's award, given since 1969, is voted on by the National Association of Basketball Coaches ( NABC ), and the women's, given since 1984, by members of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association.

* Basketball coach Dean Nicholson victories who combined with his father, Leo victories, to win 1, 114 games at CWU, which is the most ever by a father-son duo in college basketball history.

It is also the home to the Tallaght Swim Team, Tallaght Rugby Club, the National Basketball Arena, Shamrock Rovers F. C., and several notable martial arts schools and Gaelic Athletic Association clubs.

On the clock given him was the inscription, `` For Outstanding Contribution to Billiken Basketball, 1960-61 ''.

* 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.

Beira-Mar Sport Club ( founded 1922 ) has a sports academy with various youth levels participating in all kinds of sports codes notably in Basketball and Futsal in both National and Provincial levels.

The city had one basketball team in Turkish Basketball League, Tofaş S. K.

Basketball has evolved many commonly used techniques of shooting, passing, dribbling, and rebounding, as well as specialized player positions and offensive and defensive structures ( player positioning ) and techniques.

Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball.

She also was a great-grandniece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson ( 1865 – 1959 ) and his sister Senda Berenson ( 1868 – 1954 ), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.

Costas began his professional career at KMOX radio in St. Louis, Missouri, where he served as a play-by-play announcer for the Spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Association in 1974.

He was a prominent contributor to the ABA book Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association.

He has been an in-studio host for NBC's National Football League coverage and a play-by-play man for National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball coverage.