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National Basketball League (Singapore)
The National Basketball League (NBL) is the first-tier basketball league in Singapore. It was established in 2011 and founded by the Basketball Association of Singapore (BAS). The league currently exists out of twelve teams. The champions of each season are eligible to play in the qualifying rounds of the Basketball Champions League Asia. Siglap Basketball Club and Engtat Hornets hold the record for most championships with three each. Current teams * Adroit Club, Adroit * SAFSA * Nanyang * Eng Tat Hornets * SG Basketball * Siglap Basketball Club * Tagawa * Tong Whye * Chong Ghee * SBA * Team Zebra * Singapore Xin Hua Sports Club#Basketball, Xin Hua Sports Club Results See also * Asean Basketball League (ABL) * Pro-Am Singapore Basketball League (Pro-Am SBL) References External links {{Men's professional basketball leagues Sports leagues in Singapore Basketball competitions in Singapore, League Professional sports leagues in Singapore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Basketball Association Of Singapore
The Basketball Association of Singapore (BAS) is the governing body of basketball in Singapore. History Basketball was introduced to Singapore as early as 1925 and was played in schools. The Singapore Basketball and Volleyball Association was established in 1934 to further promote the sport and the organization was responsible for organizing the Malaysia and Singapore Basketball Championship. The association was later replaced in 1939 by the Chinese Sports Improvement Council, which was considered by the Basketball Association of Singapore to be the first instance of its organization. After the resolution of the World War II in 1946 which affected the promotion of basketball, Goh Chye Hin set up the Singapore Amateur Basketball Association (SABA). It's men's national team participated in the Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics, 1956 Summer Olympics. SABA became a member of FIBA Asia in 1961 and its men's team began participating in the ABC Championship (now FIBA Asia Cup). It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
National Basketball Developmental League (Singapore)
The NBA G League, or simply the G League, is a professional basketball league in North America that serves as the developmental league of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The league comprises 31 teams; as of the 2024–25 season, all are single-affiliated or owned by an NBA team except for the independent Mexico City Capitanes. The league was founded in 2001 as the National Basketball Development League (NBDL), renamed the NBA Development League (NBA D-League) in 2005. It received its present name in 2017 under a deal with Gatorade, becoming the first U.S. professional sports league named for an advertiser. Initially eight teams, the league expanded after 2005 under a plan by NBA commissioner David Stern to develop it into a true minor-league farm system, with each team affiliated with one or more NBA teams. By mid-2014, one-third of NBA players had spent time in the league, up from 23% in 2011. History National Basketball Development League (2001–2005) On J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Current Clubs
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FIBA Asia
FIBA Asia is a zone within the FIBA, International Basketball Federation (FIBA) which contains Asian FIBA member associations. Sub-zones 44 member associations in 6 sub-zones: # Central Asia Basketball Association (CABA) – 5 member associations # East Asia Basketball Association (EABA) – 8 member associations # Gulf Basketball Association (GBA) – 6 member associations # South Asia Basketball Association (SABA) – 8 member associations # Southeast Asia Basketball Association (SEABA) – 10 member associations # West Asia Basketball Association (WABA) – 7 member associations Board Bold indicates members of the FIBA Central Board. Members Tournaments FIBA Asia * FIBA Asia Cup – since 2017, also includes FIBA Oceania members * FIBA Women's Asia Cup – since 2017, also includes FIBA Oceania members * FIBA 3x3 Asia Cup#Men's tournament, FIBA 3x3 Asia Cup * FIBA 3x3 Asia Cup#Women's tournament, FIBA 3x3 Asia Cup Women * FIBA Asia Challenge * FIBA Asia Under-18 Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Basketball Champions League Asia
The Basketball Champions League Asia (BCL Asia), formerly the FIBA Asia Champions Cup, is an annual continental club men's basketball competition organised by FIBA Asia. It is the highest level club competition for basketball in Asia. Introduced in 1981, as the ''Asian Basketball Club Championship'', the competition rebranded in 2004 to the ''FIBA Asia Champions Cup''. In 2024, the tournament was renamed as the Basketball Champions League Asia. Al Riyadi and Sagesse from Lebanon are the most successful teams in the history of the competition with three championships each. Lebanese and Iranian clubs have won the most titles with a total of six among teams from each of these countries. History The competition was first organised by the Asian Basketball Confederation in 1981, when the inaugural tournament was hosted in Hong Kong. The first-ever champions were the Bayi Rockets from China. In 1995, the name of the competition was changed to the ABC Champions Cup. After the ABC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Adroit Club
Adroit Sports Association, also known simply as Adroit or Singapore Adroit, is a semi-professional basketball team in Singapore. The team plays in the National Basketball League since 2013, and has won the championship in 2014, 2023 & 2024. They won the 2023 title after defeating the Hornets in the final, and as such Adroit represented the country in the 2024 Basketball Champions League Asia qualifying rounds in April 2024. Honours National Basketball League (Singapore) The National Basketball League (NBL) is the first-tier basketball league in Singapore. It was established in 2011 and founded by the Basketball Association of Singapore (BAS). The league currently exists out of twelve teams. The champions of each ... * Champions (2): 2014, 2023, 2024 * Runners-up (2): 2018, 2022 Roster References External links Official Instagram page {{Singapore-stub Basketball teams in Singapore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Singapore Xin Hua Sports Club
The Singapore Xin Hua Sports Club is a semi-professional football team that currently competes in the Singapore National Football League Division 2. It was founded in 1911 as a local football organisation in Singapore which was initially set up to promote football amongst the Chinese community in colonial Singapore. History In 1911, the Straits Chinese of Singapore formed the Straits Chinese Football Association (SCFA). The various Straits Chinese clubs in Singapore who already had a football team were in the SCFA while all other clubs were encouraged to join. The SCFA would regulate the football matches and be an authority among the football clubs. While the SCFA lacked a playing ground for clubs to play matches, the Fairy Dale Cup was held with eight teams competing. In 1913, Lim Boon Keng became the president of SCFA. During Japanese occupation of Singapore in World War II, the SCFA was disbanded. After the war in 1945, the SCFA was revived with an election of the council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Pro-Am Singapore Basketball League
The PRO-AM Singapore Basketball League (PRO-AM SBL) was the preeminent men's pro–am basketball league in Singapore. Twelve clubs participated in the league's inaugural season in 2014, which culminated with Adroit Sports Association emerging as the first PRO-AM SBL champions on 29 June 2014 after they beat the LJE Bobcats with an 81–79 scoreline. History The idea of a Pro-Am basketball league was first sparked off by Zoran Vasiljev, the founder and CEO of Affinitiv Capital LLP, a Singapore-based equity firm. The Serbian-born Singaporean, a former cager who played college basketball in the U.S as well as professionally in Europe, envisioned a local basketball league which provided opportunities for personal growth and development of youth athletes while also reinforcing positive influences, self-confidence, self-esteem and the ability to excel on and off the court. The formation of a new Pro-Am league was announced on 22 December 2013. In order to fulfill this, Sportfolio Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sports Leagues In Singapore
Sport is a physical activity or game, often Competition, competitive and organization, organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be Open (sport), open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Basketball Competitions In Singapore
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's Basket (basketball), hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a Backboard (basketball), backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A Field goal (basketball), field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the 3 point line, three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (Overtime (sports), overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
