there are 30 teams in the NBA in which 29 of those teams are located within the 50 states of USA, while one NBA team (Toronto Raptors) is located in Toronto Canada making it the only NBA team not in the country of USA.
If you are referring to the American/Canadian basketball league then it stands for National Basketball Association.
No it was James Naismith who is Canadian and American.(He was born in Almonte,Ontario,Canada and he teached college basketball in in Springfield.)
Basketball - James Naismith (Canadian)Volleyball - William G. Morgan (United States American)
It was actually invented Springfield, Massachusetts.
No obviousley basketball is not canadian!
While basketball is not as popular in Canada as in the US it could be considered to be Canadian, because James Naismith, the inventor of the game, was a born Canadian.
James Naismith, the creator of basketball, was born in 1861. He was Canadian American. He also created the Kansas University Basketball program in later years. He died in 1939.
James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891 when he was theat Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (1890 to 1895)
* Canadian Thanksgiving was celebrated before American Thanksgiving. * A Canadian invented basketball. * Canadians were the first people who invented hockey, soccer, and airplanes.
No. Basketball was invented in Canada and the Canadian game comes from an earlier version of the game called Net Ball which is a womens game played still in England.
Basketball was invented in USA by a Canadian (James Naismith).
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