NBA

Language: en

🇺🇸 /ˈɛˌnbiːˈeɪ/

📖 Definitions

  1. noun
    National Basketball Association, the premier professional basketball league in North America.; National Boxing Association, a former name of the World Boxing Association.

🔗 Details

Word forms

uncountable

Collocations

NBA playerNBA gameNBA draftNBA FinalsNBA seasonNBA championship

Synonyms

National Basketball Association

Commonly confused

NCAA
EN: 'NCAA' refers to college-level athletics governance, while 'NBA' is the professional basketball league.

Spelling tips

EN: Always capitalize all letters as 'NBA' since it is an initialism (acronym). Do not write 'nba' or 'Nba' in formal writing.

💬 Examples

  1. He was drafted into the NBA in 2019.

  2. The NBA was renamed the WBA in 1962.