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The league currently consists of thirty teams, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada. Each team plays 82 games in the regular season. Eight teams from each of the league's two conferences qualify for the playoffs. The winners of the Conference finals advance to the finals to determine the NBA champions.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).It is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world.
It is the 25th installment in the NBA 2K franchise and is the successor to NBA 2K23. The game was released on September 8, 2023, for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S. The NBA 2K24 Arcade Edition was released on Apple Arcade on October 24, 2023. [2]
NBA video games NBA 2K and NBA Live use hip-hop in their soundtracks, and ABC/ESPN also use the music during its coverage. Players in the NBA have tried to pursue rap or hip hop careers themselves ( Shaquille O'Neal , Kobe Bryant , Tony Parker , Allen Iverson , Chris Webber , Damian Lillard and Ron Artest are some examples).
Rudy Gobert was the first NBA player to test positive for COVID-19.. On March 11, 2020, the National Basketball Association (NBA) announced the suspension of the 2019–20 season following Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert testing positive for COVID-19, [1] which occurred around the same time as COVID-19 lockdowns began in both the United States and Canada.
The 2020 NBA Bubble was the bio-secure bubble at Walt Disney World in Bay Lake, Florida, near Orlando, that was created by the National Basketball Association (NBA) to protect its players from the COVID-19 pandemic during the final eight games of the 2019–20 regular season and throughout the 2020 NBA playoffs.
The 1962 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1961-62 season.The tournament concluded with the Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Division champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals.
The 1998–99 NBA lockout was the third lockout of four in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). It lasted from July 1, 1998, to January 20, 1999, and forced the 1998–99 regular season to be shortened to 50 games per team and that season's All-Star Game to be canceled.