The National Basketball Association, or NBA, is a professional basketball league comprised of 30 teams across North America featuring the best basketball players in the world.

There are 82 games in the NBAs regular season, typically running from October to April. Each NBA team can have a maximum of 15 players, 12 of which can be active each game.

The leagues 30 teams are broken down by two conferences, The Western Conference and The Eastern Conference. The top eight teams in each Conference reach the postseason. The winners of each Conference meet in the best-of-seven NBA Finals to determine the years champion.

Basketball is played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The ball can be advanced by bouncing it while walking or running or throwing it to a teammate. The objective is to shoot the ball through a hoop that is 10 feet high mounted to a backboard at each end.

a team can score two- or three-point field goals by shooting the ball through the basket. A team can also score via free throws, worth one point, after the other team is assessed a foul. The team with the most points at the end of regulation time wins, unless there is a tie, at which point an overtime period(s) will be played until there is a winner.