The World Professional Basketball Tournament was an annual invitational tournament held in Chicago from 1939 to 1948 and sponsored by the Chicago Herald...
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The 1948 World Professional Basketball Tournament was the tenth and final edition of the World Professional Basketball Tournament. It was held in Chicago...
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The 1947 World Professional Basketball Tournament was the 9th edition of the World Professional Basketball Tournament. It was held in Chicago, Illinois...
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The 1944 World Professional Basketball Tournament was the 6th edition of the World Professional Basketball Tournament. It was held in Chicago, Illinois...
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The 1945 World Professional Basketball Tournament was the 7th edition of the World Professional Basketball Tournament. It was held in Chicago, Illinois...
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The 1939 World Professional Basketball Tournament was the first edition of the World Professional Basketball Tournament. It was held in Chicago, Illinois...
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The 1940 World Professional Basketball Tournament was the second edition of the World Professional Basketball Tournament. It was held in Chicago, Illinois...
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current and defunct basketball leagues around the world. FIBA Intercontinental Cup Arab Club Basketball Championship BAL – Basketball Africa League Algeria...
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The 1946 World Professional Basketball Tournament was the 8th edition of the World Professional Basketball Tournament. It was held in Chicago, Illinois...
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The 1942 World Professional Basketball Tournament was the 4th edition of the World Professional Basketball Tournament. It was held in Chicago, Illinois...
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The 1943 World Professional Basketball Tournament was the 5th edition of the World Professional Basketball Tournament. It was held in Chicago, Illinois...
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The 1941 World Professional Basketball Tournament was the 3rd edition of the World Professional Basketball Tournament. It was held in Chicago, Illinois...
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parts of the world. After basketball became established in American colleges, the professional game followed. The American National Basketball Association...
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1947–48 Minneapolis Lakers season (category 1947–48 National Basketball League (United States) season)
Kautskys. The Lakers would also participate in the final World Professional Basketball Tournament, winning the final championship over the independent New...
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All FIBA World Championship/World Cup tournaments since then are thus considered fully professional level tournaments. The FIBA Basketball World Cup was...
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Chicago Bruins (category Basketball teams established in 1925)
Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Nat Holman. The team later played in the National Basketball League (1939–1942) and World Professional Basketball Tournament...
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New York Renaissance (redirect from Harlem Renaissance (basketball))
beat the Oshkosh All-Stars, a white team, 34–25, in the World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago. The team compiled a 2,588–529 record from 1923...
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Women's basketball made its debut in the Summer Olympics in 1976. FIBA organizes both the men's and women's FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournaments and...
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bigger stars. NBL teams dominated the World Professional Basketball Tournament, an annual invitational tournament held in Chicago and sponsored by the...
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The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is an open-invitation, single-elimination tournament played each summer in the United States, with the stakes being a cash...
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the EuroLeague and the Basketball Champions League Americas. The FIBA Basketball World Cup and Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament are the major international...
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winning medals in all twenty Olympic tournaments it has entered, including seventeen golds. In the professional era, the team has won the Olympic gold...
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participated in seven FIBA World Cups and seven Olympic Basketball Tournaments. The Philippines first participated in international basketball in the Far Eastern...
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of 2020, basketball is one of the most popular and fastest growing sports in the world. There are multiple professional leagues and tournaments for professional...
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The World Professional Darts Championship is one of the most important tournaments in the darts calendar. Originally held as an annual event between 1978...
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All-Star Game, the Golden Gloves amateur boxing tournament and the World Professional Basketball Tournament. Ward was born in 1896 in Irwin, Illinois, and...
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the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada and is considered the premier professional basketball league in the world. The NBA...
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Detroit Eagles (category Basketball teams disestablished in 1941)
the 1941 World Professional Basketball Tournament in Chicago with a 39–37 victory over the Oshkosh All-Stars. They returned to the tournament in 1942,...
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George Mikan (category Professional Basketball League of America players)
nicknamed "Mr. Basketball", was an American professional basketball player for the Chicago American Gears of the National Basketball League (NBL) and...
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The 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup was the 18th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup for men's national basketball teams, held from 31 August to...
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