NBA

NBA

1. (sports) Initialism of National Basketball Association.
   • 2025 March 27, Matias Grez, “NBA and FIBA in talks with European soccer teams over new basketball league”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     “The NBA and FIBA are uniquely positioned to build on the rich tradition of European basketball. We look forward to collaborating with FIBA to explore the creation of a new league for fans across the continent,” Silver added.

2. (sports) Initialism of National Boxing Association.

• FIBA
• WNBA

• “NBA”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “NBA”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “NBA”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “NBA”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “NBA”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• NBA in Britannica Dictionary
• NBA (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• -nab, -nab-, ABN, BAN, BNA, Ban, NAB, ban, nab, nab-

Borrowed from English NBA (“National Basketball Association”).

NBA f

1. Asociación Nacional de Baloncesto; NBA.
   • 2019 September 15, Abel Alvarado, “España vence a Argentina en la final de la Copa Mundial de Baloncesto de la FIBA”, in CNN en Español‎^[2]:

     Entre los jugadores de España se encuentra Marc Gasol, quien este mismo año fue parte de los campeones de la NBA, los Raptors de Toronto.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)