Basketball has always been a distant third in sports rankings in the United States behind baseball and American football.

篮球在美国的运动排名上始终一直位居第三，远远落在棒球和美式足球之后。

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The National basketball Association (NBA) is the major professional basketball league in the world, with teams from the United States and Canada.

国家篮球协会(NBA)是世界上主要的职业篮球联盟，由美国和加拿大的球队组成。

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The National basketball Association (NBA) is the major professional basketball league1 in the world, with teams from the United States and Canada.

国家篮球协会(NBA)是世界上主要的职业篮球联盟，由美国和加拿大的球队组成。

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Five years later she led the United States women's basketball team in the Goodwill Games and FIBA World Championship.

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In nineteen eighty she was an assistant coach on the United States Women's Olympic basketball team.

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The superstar won a Gold Medal as a member of the United States Men's basketball team in the two thousand eight summer Olympic Games in China.

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In effect, what that has created in countries such as the Dominican Republic is an equivalent to AAU basketball in the United States.

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Others are hitching their wagon to European football teams or the National Basketball Association (NBA) in the United States.

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Interest in college basketball is at its annual March zenith in the United States right now, so it seems appropriate to reflect for a few moments on a coach who models passion, accountability and collaboration, Butler University's Brad Stevens.

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