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National Basketball Association
The
National Basketball Association
(
NBA
) is the pre-eminent men's
professional
basketball
league in
North America
, and is widely considered to be the premier men's
professional basketball
league in the world. It has 30 franchised member clubs (29 in the
United States
and 1 in
Canada
), and is an active member of
USA Basketball
(USAB), which is recognized by
FIBA
(also known as the International Basketball Federation) as the
national governing body
for basketball in the United States. The NBA is one of the four
major North American professional sports leagues
. NBA players are the world's best paid sportsmen, by average annual salary per player.
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