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The most common is B-ball (especially verbally), though BB is also used quite often.

also, the abbreviations: NBA, NCAABB, and FIBA all most commonly refer to Basketball related terms.

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It comes from James Naismith putting a peach BASKET on a wall and getting students at his YMCA to throw a BALL into it

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