NBA

1. National Basketball Association.

2. Also N.B.A. National Book Award.

3. National Boxing Association.

NBA

abbreviation

1. (in the US) National Basketball Association

2. (the former) Net Book Agreement

Example Sentences

This time, they are battling not for the NBA title, but for the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese shoppers are dropping on sneakers.

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After Daryl Morey, then the general manager of the Houston Rockets, posted an image supporting antigovernment protesters in Hong Kong, Beijing banished the NBA from playing and broadcasting games.

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That and the Covid pandemic kept the NBA and its stars away from China for years.

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Then the NBA said it would finally return to Chinese territory next month, holding two preseason games in Macau.

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That made it easier for NBA stars to resume pitching sneakers to the Chinese.

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