* Adrian Dantley ( born 1956 ), American retired National Basketball Association ( NBA ) player

"... 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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1987, shortly after it was decided that Charlotte would receive an expansion National Basketball Association franchise ( the Charlotte Hornets ), former NFL player Jerry Richardson met with a group of potential backers to discuss the possibility of bringing an NFL expansion team to the Carolina region.

* National Basketball Association Cheerleading

* Cape Breton Breakers, former team of the defunct National Basketball League

* 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 Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team that plays in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

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

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

On June 13, 2012, National Basketball Association ( NBA ) commissioner David Stern asked radio personality Jim Rome the loaded question, " Have you stopped beating your wife yet?

* Phoenix Mercury, a Women's National Basketball Association team from Arizona, United States

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

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

Category: National Basketball Association All-Stars

Category: National Basketball Association players with retired numbers

NBA refer to the National Basketball Association, the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America

* NBA Development League, the official minor league basketball organization of the National Basketball Association

* NBA TV, a television network showcasing the National Basketball Association

The league adopted the name National Basketball Association in 1949 after merging with the rival National Basketball League ( NBL ).

Starting with small stations not members of the National Association of Broadcasters, the firm apparently is seeking to break down the anti-liquor barriers in major-market stations.

The National Association of Broadcasters code specifically bars hard-liquor commercials.

The Council on National Defense of the American Medical Association contributed a brief article to each issue entitled, `` This Is Your A.M.A. ''.

Other sources of information include the National Concrete Masonry Association, 38 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill., the Portland Cement Association, 33 West Grand Avenue, Chicago, Ill., and the Structural Clay Products Association, Washington, D.C..

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D. C., is developing plans to utilize specially treated lumber for underground shelter construction.

In 1959, the Yacht Safety Bureau was reorganized by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers and a group of insurance underwriters to provide a testing laboratory and labeling service for boats and their equipment.

An examination of some forty catalogs of schools offering courses in interior design, for the most part schools accredited by membership in the National Association of Schools of Art, and a further `` on the spot '' inspection of a number of schools, show their courses adhere pretty closely to the recommendations.

There will be no mitigation of these offences until all art schools, whether independent or attached to universities have separate accreditation -- as do medical schools -- by an art accreditation group such as the `` National Association of Schools of Art ''.

The group known as the American Association for Health,, Physical Education, and Recreation ( a division of the National Education Association ) initiated a conference which brought together representatives of the National Rifle Association, SAAMI and the American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers.

The Middle-South Region, as defined by the National Association of Intergroup Relations Officials ( NAIRO ), consists of the states of Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, West Virginia, Delaware, Virginia and the District of Columbia.

Finally there are the parent organizations and the laymen's organizations such as the National Association of Parents and Teachers, and the Citizens Committee on Public Schools.

That's why the FDA, the American Medical Association ( AMA ), and the National Better Business Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $610 million or so paid to medical charlatans annually.

Employes of Montgomery Ward & Co. at The Dalles, in a National Labor Relations Board election Thursday voted to decertify Local 1565, Retail Clerks International Association, AFL-CIO, as their collective bargaining agent.

It is not surprising that, as spokesman for real estate interests, the National Association of Real Estate Boards ( NAREB ) and its local associations have sought to limit and often ignore much of this pressure.

The National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities recommended creating AFI “ to enrich and nurture the art of film in America ” with initial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Ford Foundation.

In addition to opposing the ADA on grounds of cost, church groups like the National Association of Evangelicals testified against the ADA's Title I ( employment ) provisions on grounds of religious liberty.

In 1996, the NBA created a women's league, the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

In 2001, an affiliated minor league, the National Basketball Development League, now called the NBA Development League ( or D-League ) was created.

Allen also owns two professional sports teams, the Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League ( NFL ), and the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

* Boies represented the National Basketball Players Association during the 2011 NBA lockout.

The league was founded on April 24, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

The original ABA was founded in 1967, competing with the well-established National Basketball Association, until the ABA – NBA merger in 1976.

The team is a member of the Southeast Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

The team was named the New York Americans, and Brown intended for it to play at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan, but pressure from the New York Knicks of the older National Basketball Association ( NBA ) forced the Armory to back out three months before opening day.

They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They are part of the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

In 1949, they joined the NBA as part of the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America merger.

The Chicago Bulls are a professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois, playing in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They began playing in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) in 1970 as an expansion team.

They are members of the Central Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).