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For demographic, economic, and sports-specific reasons, the 3-year-old Basketball Association of America (BAA) and 12-year-old National Basketball League (NBL) merged and formed another professional organization in 1949. Named the National Basketball Association (NBA), it has become a popular, prosperous, and successful group of franchises. In addition to multiple sports markets across the United States (US) and one in Canada, the league has an enthusiastic, large, and expanding fan base in several foreign countries including China, Italy, and the Philippines.
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NBA games are popular among sports fans in these and other foreign countries. See Benjamin Markovits, “A New Global Game?” New Statesman (19 January 2009), 28; David Stone, “Stern Sets His Sights Overseas,” Basketball Digest (May 2002), 3; “NBA Returning to London for Regular Season Matchup” at http://www.nba.com cited 21 March 2014.
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Besides references and sources in the Bibliography, see such websites as baseketball-reference.com, databasebasketball.com, forbes.com, hickoksports.com, hoopedia.nba.com, insidehoops.com, nba.com, rodneyfort.com, sportsbusinessnews.com, sportsencyclopedia.com, and teammarketing.com. Two recent sources for researching historical NBA data are the Official NBA Guide: 2013–14 Edition (New York, NY: NBA Properties, 2013), and the Official NBA Register: 2013–14 Edition (New York, NY: NBA Properties, 2103). For information about the formation and early history of the NBA, see Frank P. Jozsa Jr. and John J. Guthrie Jr., Relocating Teams and Expanding Leagues in Professional Sports: How the Major Leagues Respond to Market Conditions (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1999); Connie Kirchberg, Hoop Love: A History of the National Basketball Association (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007); Robert W. Peterson, Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball’s Early Years (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990); Charles Rosen, The First Tip-Off: The Incredible Story of the Birth of the NBA (New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2008).
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For the NBA’s expansion history, see Frank P. Jozsa Jr., The National Basketball Association: Business, Organization and Strategy (Singapore: World Scientific, 2011); Frank P. Jozsa Jr. and John J. Guthrie Jr., Relocating Teams and Expanding Leagues in Professional Sports: How the Major Leagues Respond to Market Conditions, 43–66, 101–134; James Quirk and Rodney D. Fort, Pay Dirt: The Business of Professional Team Sports (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992); and Kenneth L. Shropshire, The Sports Franchise Game: Cities in Pursuit of Sports Franchises, Events, Stadiums, and Arenas (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995).
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Readings about NBA team relocations and territories regarding the Supersonics from the state of Washington to Oklahoma, see for example “Deal Allows the Sonics to Leave Seattle For Oklahoma City,” New York Times (3 July 2008), 6; Richard Sandomir, “Sonics Given Approval to Oklahoma,” New York Times (19 April 2008), 2; “Sonics Bid to Leave Seattle Gets League Nod,” Wall Street Journal (21 April 2008), A10; “Sonics the Most Likely to Move,” Charlotte Observer (19 February 2006), 14C.
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References for the ABA-NBA merger include Peter Carry, “Meanwhile, Back at the Merge,” Sports Illustrated (24 May 1971), 68; Frank Deford, “Dribbling on the Verge of the Merger,” Sports Illustrated (9 August 1971), 42, and “Merger, Madness and Maravich,” Sports Illustrated (6 April 1970), 28; Bill Rhoden, “ABA Superstars Join the NBA,” Ebony (January 1977), 88–89.
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In 2004, two researchers examined possible expansion or relocation sites for the NBA using a two-equation system requiring two-stage probit least squares to estimate. The location model forecasts the best cities for an NBA team based on the underlying characteristics of current NBA teams. The results suggest that Louisville, San Diego, Baltimore, St. Louis, and Norfolk appear to be the most promising candidates for relocation or expansion. See Daniel and Heather Rascher, “NBA Expansion and Relocation: A Viability Study of Various Cities,” Journal of Sport Management (2004), 274–294.
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Jozsa, F.P. (2015). Introduction. In: National Basketball Association Strategies. SpringerBriefs in Economics, vol 84. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10058-6_1
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