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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.
Basque Country national football team
The Basque Country national football team (Euskal Selekzioa) is an unofficial men's team representing the Basque region, playing friendlies only since 1915.
Basque pelota
Basque pelota (pelota vasca, euskal pilota) is a family of Basque wall-ball games played bare-handed, with bats, rackets, or the wicker chistera basket; the basket form is jai alai. Olympic demonstration sport 1924, 1968, 1992; UNESCO heritage 2021.
Basra (game)
Basra (الباصرة), also Bastra, Ashush, or Assaba-al'-Komi, is a Middle Eastern fishing card game like Casino: players capture floor cards by rank or sums, with jack and 7♦ sweeps and 10-point basra bonuses.
Bastiagueiro
Bastiagueiro (Oleiros, A Coruña, Galicia) is a coastal locality with a beach, the Universidade da Coruña sports-science campus (former INEF, founded 1986), and the 4,000-seat multiusos arena A Colmea, budgeted at 11.7 million euros.
Bastian Assomo
Bastian Friedrich Assomo (born 2010, Berlin) is a German-Cameroonian youth striker at FC Bayern Munich, playing for Bayern II in Regionalliga Bayern; scored in 2026 preseason friendlies, no Bundesliga debut yet.
Bastian Schweinsteiger
Bastian Schweinsteiger, born 1984 in Kolbermoor, German midfielder, Bayern Munich legend with 20 titles and 2014 World Cup winner, later Manchester United and Chicago Fire, now ARD pundit and Kings League Germany president.
Bastion (video game)
Bastion is Supergiant Games' 2011 debut action RPG, an action role-playing game with reactive narration by Logan Cunningham, Darren Korb's 'acoustic frontier trip-hop' score, and Jen Zee's art.
Bat-and-ball games
Bat-and-ball games: family of team sports, also called striking-and-running games, including baseball, cricket, softball, rounders, pesäpallo, and British baseball, defined by a delivered ball, a batter, base running, and fielding outs.
Batey
Batey (also batu): the Taíno ball game of the Greater Antilles and the stone-bordered plaza where it was played, with rubber ball, no hands, teams of 10-30, and a modern revival; distinct from the Dominican sugar-settlement meaning of batey.
Bath Rugby
Bath Rugby, founded 1865, is a professional English rugby union club playing at the Recreation Ground (The Rec) since 1894. Six league titles, six national cups, 1998 Heineken Cup as first English winner, 2025 Premiership and Challenge Cup champion.
Bathurst 1000
Bathurst 1000, also called The Great Race, is a 1000 km, 161-lap Supercars endurance race at Mount Panorama (Wahluu), Bathurst, NSW. First run 1960 at Phillip Island, at Bathurst since 1963; Peter Brock won nine; 2026 winner Brodie Kostecki.
Batman: Arkham
Batman: Arkham is Rocksteady Studios' Batman action-adventure game series begun in 2009, spanning Asylum, City, Origins, Knight, and the 2024 VR entry Arkham Shadow; it holds the Guinness record for most critically acclaimed superhero game series (86.87% average Metacritic).
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum is a 2009 Rocksteady action-adventure game (also called Arkham Asylum, Asylum) where Batman retakes Arkham from the Joker. Known for Freeflow combat, Invisible Predator stealth, Metacritic 92, and 10 million-plus sales.
Batman: Arkham City
Batman: Arkham City (2011), Rocksteady's open-world action-adventure sequel to Arkham Asylum, set in a walled Gotham superprison; Metacritic 94, highest-rated Arkham game, 12.76 million copies sold.