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Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
Men's Olympic basketball tournament, Rio 2016, 6–21 August, Arena Carioca 1. United States won a third straight gold, beating Serbia 96–66; Spain took bronze over Australia 89–88; Carmelo Anthony won a record third gold.
Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics: 5x5 men's and women's tournaments at Saitama Super Arena plus 3x3's Olympic debut at Aomi Urban Sports Park; USA won three golds, Latvia the men's 3x3.
Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
Tokyo 2020 men's Olympic basketball tournament: 12-team FIBA competition at Saitama Super Arena, 25 July–7 August 2021, in three groups of 4. USA beat France 87-82 for a fourth straight gold; Australia took bronze.
Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification
Men's basketball qualification for Paris 2024: seven direct berths from the FIBA World Cup 2023, host France, and four July 2024 Olympic Qualifying Tournaments won by Greece, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Spain.
Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
Men's basketball at Paris 2024: 12-team FIBA Olympic tournament, July 27-August 10, 2024. USA beat France 98-87 for a fifth straight gold; Serbia took bronze; group stage in Lille, knockouts at Bercy Arena.
Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
Basketball at the 2024 Summer Olympics women's tournament (Paris 2024): 12-team FIBA event won by the United States, which beat France 67-66 for an eighth straight gold; Australia took bronze, Taurasi won a record sixth gold.
Basketball at the 2026 Asian Games
Basketball at the 2026 Asian Games (Aichi-Nagoya, September 19 to October 4, 2026): men's tournament of 12 teams in three groups at Aichi International Arena, starting September 10, with the Philippines defending the Hangzhou 2023 gold.
Basketball at the 2026 Asian Games – Men's tournament
Men's 5x5 basketball tournament at the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026, held at Aichi International Arena; groups of Japan, Korea, Iran, China and others; South Korea and Japan reached the gold medal game.
Basketball at the 2026 Asian Games – Women's tournament
Women's 5x5 basketball at the 20th Asian Games, Aichi-Nagoya 2026: 11 teams at Aichi International Arena, Nagoya, 17-26 September 2026; South Korea beat Japan 75-70 for gold, China took bronze.
Basketball at the 2028 Summer Olympics
Basketball at the 2028 Summer Olympics (LA28): 5x5 at Intuit Dome, Inglewood, and 3x3 at Sepulveda Basin, July 16-22, with the 3x3 field expanded from 8 to 12 teams per gender.
Basketball at the 2028 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification
Men's 5x5 basketball qualification for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics: seven direct places via the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027, the USA as host, and four OQT winners in June–July 2028.
Basketball at the 2028 Summer Olympics – Women's qualification
Women's qualification for basketball at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics: USA hosts, World Cup 2026 winner qualifies directly, Canada won the 2026 Pre-Qualifying Tournament, and four FIBA Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournaments in February 2028 fill the 12-team field.
Basketball at the Summer Olympics
Basketball at the Summer Olympics, also called Olympic basketball or FIBA Olympic tournament: five-on-five men's and women's events since Berlin 1936 plus 3x3 since Tokyo 2020, played under FIBA rules with 12-team fields and US dominance.
Basketball at the Summer Universiade
Basketball at the Summer Universiade consists of men's and women's tournaments at the FISU World University Games; men's play began in Turin in 1959, women's in 1961.
Basketball Bundesliga
Basketball Bundesliga (BBL, easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga), Germany's top men's professional basketball league: 18 teams, founded 1966, BBL GmbH since 1996, 34-game season with play-in and best-of-five playoffs, record 4,676 average attendance in 2024/25.
Basketball Champions League
The Basketball Champions League (BCL), also called FIBA Champions League, is an annual European club basketball competition organized by FIBA with European domestic leagues since 2016.
Basketball court
Basketball court: the marked playing surface for basketball. FIBA courts are 28 x 15 m with 5 cm lines; NBA courts 94 x 50 ft; three-point lines differ by rulebook (6.75 m FIBA/NCAA, 7.24 m NBA, 6.02 m high school).
Basketball Development Center
Basketball Development Center (Basketbol Gelişim Merkezi, BGM), a public basketball complex in Zeytinburnu, Istanbul, opened 29 September 2024; 10,000-seat arena plus four halls, basketball high school, hotel, museum; hosts Anadolu Efes, Beşiktaş, and TBF development programs.
Basketball moves
Basketball moves are standard footwork and ball-handling actions such as the pivot, jump stop, crossover, jab step, and Euro step, bounded by NBA and FIBA traveling rules; signature examples include Tim Hardaway's Killer Crossover and Ginobili's Eurostep.
Basketball positions
Basketball positions: the five standard roles, point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward, and center, their traditional duties, origins, and how positionless basketball and versatility have blurred them.
Basketball statistics
Basketball statistics: box-score counting stats (points, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks), efficiency metrics like eFG%, TS%, PER, Four Factors, plus-minus, and camera tracking data from SportVU to Hawk-Eye.
Basketball Wives
Basketball Wives is a VH1 reality series premiering April 11, 2010, created with Shaunie O'Neal, ex-wife of Shaquille O'Neal, following women linked to NBA players; 12 seasons, criticized for stereotyping, named a Time influential season.
Basketball Wives LA
Basketball Wives LA (Basketball Wives L.A.) is a VH1 reality series, a 2011 spin-off of Basketball Wives following wives, girlfriends, and exes of NBA players, premiering August 29, 2011, with cast including Jackie Christie, Draya Michele, and Shaunie O'Neal.
Basketmouth
Basketmouth, born Bright Okpocha, is a Nigerian comedian and actor who became one of Nigeria's foremost stand-up comedians and later released the albums Yabasi, Horoscopes, and Uburu.
Basketry in museum collections
Basketry in museum collections is the collecting, cataloging, display, and conservation of woven plant-fiber baskets, which serve as art, ethnographic record, and ancestral belongings for source communities.
Basketry Museum of the Roma
Basketry Museum of the Roma (Μουσείο Καλαθοπλεκτικής των Ρωμά), founded 1995 in Komotini and moved to Thrylorio in 2004, is an ethnological-technological museum of Roma basket-weaving with over 300 baskets from Thrace, the Balkans, and worldwide.
Baskets (TV series)
Baskets is an FX dark comedy (2016-2019, 4 seasons, 40 episodes) created by Zach Galifianakis, Louis C.K., and Jonathan Krisel, starring Galifianakis as twins Chip and Dale Baskets and Emmy-winning Louie Anderson as their mother Christine in Bakersfield.
Baskin (film)
Baskin (Baskın) is a 2015 Turkish horror film by Can Evrenol, expanded from his 2013 short: five cops answer a backup call and enter a hellish cult den led by The Father. Premiered at TIFF Midnight Madness 2015; self-financed; IFC Midnight released it in the US.
Baskin-Robbins
Baskin-Robbins, also branded "31 Flavors," is an American ice cream specialty shop chain founded in 1945 in Glendale, California, by brothers-in-law Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins, known for the 31-flavors concept and global franchising.
Baskin, Louisiana
Baskin, Louisiana: a Lawrason Act village in Franklin Parish, north of Winnsboro, named for pioneer settler Dr. Adolphus McDuffie Baskin; population 143 (ACS 2024), once a milling and timber community, and hometown of singer Lainey Wilson.