"... 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 ).

Basketball is organised by Tolka Rovers.

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.

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

The UBC Hannover Tigers play in the second German Basketball Association and the Hannover Regents play in the third Bundesliga ( baseball ) division.

Opened to the public in February 1968, the current Madison Square Garden is the oldest arena in the National Hockey League and is the second oldest arena in the National Basketball Association, after the Oracle Arena in Oakland, California.

In 2009, MSG hosted the second longest NCAA men's basketball game when the Syracuse Orange and Connecticut Huskies went into six overtimes in the Big East Men's Basketball Tournament.

In 2005, the Boys Basketball team took second in state.

In recent years the college's ice hockey team has been exceptionally successful, once winning second place in the intercollegiate cuppers tournament, with the Basketball team winning third place in its intercollegiate cuppers tournament the year before.

* 2011-The Men's Basketball team defeated Coastal Carolina in the Big South Conference Final to win the Big South Championship and advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the second time.

The dome has also held first and second round games in the NCAA Basketball Tournament in addition to regionals and the Final Four, most recently in 2009.

Men's basketball again took center stage on the Providence campus, as coach Rick Pitino and senior Billy Donovan took the Friars to their second Final Four appearance in the 1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

The theme song is played by the Wichita State Basketball Band for the opening and second half tip-offs at Wichita State basketball games.

Among them were Moses Malone, acquired during their second season, who went on to a long and successful career in the NBA, culminating in enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame.

* The University of Dayton athletic facilities compete with the best in the nation, with the University of Dayton Arena ranking as the second most-used venue for the NCAA Men ’ s Basketball Championship.

In March 2009, the Women's Basketball team won the NEC Title and earned their second trip to the NCAA Tournament in the last four years.

The arena has also hosted many major national sporting events including the 1999, 2003, and 2009 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball regional first and second rounds, the 2009 and 2012 Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight, the 1998 Frozen Four, the 2004 Frozen Four, and the 2006 Women's Final Four.

The Coliseum has also hosted first and second round games of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in 1982, 1994 and 2001.

On April 5, 1993, at Michigan's second consecutive NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game, Webber called a time-out with 11 seconds left in the game when his team, down 73 – 71, did not have any remaining, resulting in a technical foul that effectively clinched the game for North Carolina.

The BBL is not to be confused with the English Basketball League ( EBL ) or the Scottish Basketball League ( SBL ), which effectively form the second tier of British basketball.

On April 2, 2007, Driesell was inducted as a member of the second class of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.

Luke Winn, a writer for the American magazine Sports Illustrated, said in an August 2011 story that " Basketball is the only sport the 3. 2 million Lithuanians truly care about — it's their second religion, after Catholicism — and their success is proportionately stunning.

In odd-numbered years, the arena was regularly one of eight sites to host the first and second rounds of the men's NCAA Basketball Tournament for the first ten years of its existence, though it was taken out of the rotation for several years ( the arena hosted the event again in 2012 ), partly due to the obsolete octagonal mid-1990s-style scoreboard that hung above the arena floor.

Adams also was one of the owners of the Houston Mavericks of the American Basketball Association and the former owner of the second Nashville Kats franchise of the Arena Football League.

In the 1996-97 season after winning Group B of the second division the team was promoted to the top Polish Basketball League, the Dominet Bank Ekstraliga.

* The Notre Dame Men's Basketball team currently has the 9th most wins in College Basketball History.

The rivalry between the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers involves the two most storied basketball franchises in National Basketball Association ( NBA ) history.

* 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.

The five most frequently offered college sports for women are, in order: ( 1 ) Basketball, 98. 8 % of schools have a team, ( 2 ) Volleyball, 95. 7 %, ( 3 ) Soccer, 92. 0 %, ( 4 ) Cross Country, 90. 8 %, and ( 5 ) Softball, 89. 2 %.

The men's basketball program has produced a number of NBA players, most notably Jeff Martin, Popeye Jones, and Joe Fulks, who is a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee and has been credited with being one of the pioneers of the jump shot.

The school has won the Class D Girls ' Basketball Championship 4 times, most recently in 2008.

Basketball and baseball are the most popular youth and high school sports in Westport, but many sports are offered at Westport High School.

Annapolis is home to South Iron High School, which is home to the South Iron Panthers, a Basketball team among the most successful Basketball Teams in Missouri history.

Basketball tends to be the most popular sport in Advance.

Has won most championships in the US National Basketball Association.

** 16 State Boys Basketball Championships – the most in New Mexico history

In 2004, the Wilmington College women's basketball team won the NCAA Women's Division III Basketball Championship, the most prestigious national title won by a Wilmington sport team.

The Wildcat athletic program includes many sports: Cross Country, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Tennis, Golf, Track, and most recently added, six man football.

Their most recent championship came on April 7, 2008 when they defeated Memphis 75-68 in overtime to win the 2008 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship.

For the most part the most common are sports like Basketball and Football or simply a Tug of War.

The Metrodome has also served as one of the four regional venues for the NCAA Division I Basketball Championship in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2006 and most recently, 2009.

He played at the University of South Carolina and most notably with the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets.

Travelers are drawn to the Pioneer Valley by its lively college towns, such as Northampton and Amherst ; the resurgent city of Springfield ; its unspoiled nature, numerous parks, and recreational facilities, including New England's largest and most popular amusement park, Six Flags New England in Agawam ; its cultural and historical sites, such as the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, the United States Armory at Springfield National Park, and the Basketball Hall of Fame on Springfield's riverfront.

Another major sports team in the past is the Negros Slashers arguably the most successful team of the now defunct Metropolitan Basketball Association

* List of National Basketball Association players with most blocks in a game