The American Professional Basketball League (NBA) is a professional basketball league composed of 30 professional teams in North America, and is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States. The regular season consists of 82 games per team and is usually held from October to June.

On June 6, 1946, the Basketball Association of America (BAA), the predecessor of the NBA, was founded in the United States, with Maurice Podoroff as the first president of the league, and his name is now printed on the league MVP trophy. The league started with 11 teams. In 1949, BAA officially changed its name to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the American Professional Basketball League was officially established.

The NBA will hold the NBA Draft before the start of next season; It was followed by the NBA Summer League, NBA preseason, and NBA regular season. Each team has a total of 82 games in the regular season, and at the end of the NBA regular season, the top eight teams in the Eastern and Western Conference, including the champions of each division, will qualify for the following playoffs. The postseason adopts the best-of-seven format with four rounds; The final round of the playoffs, called the Finals, pits the champions of the two leagues against each other for the NBA's highest honor, the championship. [1] [59-60] The best player was awarded the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award.

As of June 2024, the Celtics won the championship for the 18th time in the history of the NBA team, the first number of championships in the history of the NBA. The Los Angeles Lakers have won the O 'Brien Trophy 17 times; In addition, the Chicago Bulls won the title six times, and the SAN Antonio Spurs won the title five times. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won a total of six regular season MVPS, Michael Jordan and Bill Russell each won five regular season MVPS, and Wilt Chamberlain and lebron James each won four times. [1] The league surpassed $10 billion in total revenue for the 2021-22 season, setting a new NBA single-season revenue record.