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National Basketball Association

North American professional basketball league
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Summary

National Basketball Association is a basketball association[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of basketball association entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (48,851 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Copyright Alliance[3]
  • Country: Canada[4], United States[5]
  • Instance of: basketball league[6], professional sports league[7], online database[8]
  • Commons category: National Basketball Association[9]
  • Has part(s): Eastern Conference[10], Western Conference[11], 1949–50 NBA season[12], 1950–51 NBA season[13], 1951–52 NBA season[14], 1952–53 NBA season[15], 1953–54 NBA season[16], 1954–55 NBA season[17], 1955–56 NBA season[18], 1956–57 NBA season[19], 1957–58 NBA season[20], 1958–59 NBA season[21], 1959–60 NBA season[22], 1960–61 NBA season[23]

Product Details

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  • Type: Group[24]

  • Country: US[25]

  • Began / founded: 1946-06-06[26]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 4fdefe75-1086-42ee-8c61-8748a16fdb5c[27]

Why It Matters

National Basketball Association has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · TheaAlvaro · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Winner → New York Knicks
    Wikipedia languages → ['ady', 'af', 'an', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bat_smg', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Winner: New York Knicks, ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/harvesttemplates/c0fe8969feaf|details]])"
  2. 4w ago · Putnik · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id → nba
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija id: nba"
  3. 6w ago · IdeasMagnet · 2026-09-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Openstreetmap node id → 11459817506
    P14699 → 16
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Openstreetmap node id: 11459817506, Adding OSM node id claim from wikidata tag on node/11459817506 in United States"
  4. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2ZEB8e, XN9yI, 3sXuWT
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  5. 15w ago · Based5290 · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Logo image → National Basketball Association logo 2017-present.svg
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Logo image: National Basketball Association logo 2017-present.svg"
  6. 17w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 2ZEB8e, XN9yI, 3sXuWT
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/37444|batch #37444]]: Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) (P14541) 2"
  7. 18w ago · GA Kevin · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → 2013 NBA Slam Dunk Contest at Toyota Center.JPG, Partido NBA -i---i- (31910450720).jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Image: Partido NBA -i---i- (31910450720).jpg, Add existing Commons image via Data2Go"
  8. 18w ago · Cetateanul Rosu · 2026-06-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Winner → New York Knicks
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Winner: Los Angeles Lakers"
  9. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0423177-National-Basketball-Association
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0423177-National-Basketball-Association, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
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