Albert continues to be the lead play-by-play announcer for National Basketball Association games on TNT, a position he assumed in 1999.

This would be the excuse for all sorts of happenings, such as the two-man inter-rabbi bobsleigh championships ( to be held on the down escalator at Leicester Square underground station — weather and platform tickets permitting ), Formation Goat Nadgering, Paso Doble Jockey Wagging, Floodlit Horse Massage, and Nark Fettering on Ice, and reports of the latest activities of the Over-Eighties Nudist Leapfrog ( or Basketball, or Judo ) Team.

On February 15, 2005, NBA Commissioner David Stern announced that Donna Orender, who had been serving as the Senior Vice President of the PGA Tour and who had played for several teams in the now-defunct Women's Pro Basketball League, would be Ackerman's successor as of April 2005.

The city has held the 2005 NCAA Men's Basketball First and Second round and hosted the Big 12 Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments in 2007 ; the city will be the site again in 2009.

On May 9, 1991, Hearn became the third broadcaster to be inducted into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts.

They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) and the only team in their division not to be based in California.

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 Expo Center will be home to the East Kentucky Energy of the American Basketball Association starting in fall 2010, and starting in spring 2011 will be home to the Eastern Kentucky Drillers of the Ultimate Indoor Football League.

That same team, after moving up to be the Wildcats-5, won the Lakeland Basketball League championship, the first in the West Milford PAL program's history, in 2005.

Starting in 2012, the city will be home to the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Steamers of the Premier Basketball League.

MSU Football and Basketball can also be heard on 1310.

Although the Cougars would not be eligible for OVC or NCAA post-season competition until the 2012-13 season, they were invited to play in the 2012 Women's Basketball Invitational ( WBI ) tournament.

Basketball Hall of Famer Kevin McHale was born and raised on the Mesabi Range in Hibbing ; Robert Allen Zimmerman, later to be known as Bob Dylan, was raised in Hibbing.

* While recovering from an assassination attempt, President Ronald Reagan reportedly said, " All things considered, I'd rather be in Philadelphia ", which alluded to the site of the 1981 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament's Final Four games held at the same time as Reagan's hospitalization.

With its last pick in the draft, the Cornets selected Uljana Semjonova, a 7-foot-4-inch player for the Soviet Union's national women's basketball team who would be inducted as an inaugural member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in the class of 1999, but would never play a game in the WBL.

) Goldberg soon learned San Diego was to be shut out of the pending ABA-NBA merger that would bring the ABA into the National Basketball Association ; the Sails were to be left out reportedly at the insistence of Lakers owner Jack Kent Cooke, who refused to share his Southern California fan base with a team to the south.

Rautins was the first Canadian to be selected in the first round of the National Basketball Association draft.

According to Mel Davis of the National Basketball Retired Players Union, this battle kept him going, because Mikan hoped to be alive when a new collective bargaining agreement would finally vindicate his generation.

He groomed many players who went on to be inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

The Memphis franchise of the former American Basketball Association had intended to move to Baltimore for what turned out to be that league's final season, 1975 – 76, but then folded without ever actually playing a game in Baltimore.

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

* 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.

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.

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.

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