NBA G League
Sign in to saveAlso known as NBA D-League, National Basketball Development League, NBDL, NBA Development League, NBA Gatorade League, D-League, D League, G League
American men's basketball minor league
Key facts
- Formerly
- NBA D-League
- Sport
- Basketball
- First season
- 2001–02
- President
- Shareef Abdur-Rahim
- Countries
- United States (29 teams), Canada (1 team), Mexico (1 team)
- Continents
- North America
- Most recent champions
- Greensboro Swarm , (1st title)
- Most titles
- Rio Grande Valley Vipers , (4 titles)
- Broadcasters
- United States: ESPN / ABC Amazon Prime Video / Twitch NBA TV Canada: NBA TV Canada Worldwide: GLeague.NBA.com
- Sponsor
- Gatorade
- Official website
- gleague .nba .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Sport
- basketball
- Official website
- gleague.nba.com
- Organizer
- National Basketball Association
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- topic's main category
- Category:NBA G League
- Commons category
- NBA G League
- inception
- 2001-00-00
- season starts
- November
- league level above
- National Basketball Association
- number of participants
- 31
- winner
- Rio Grande Valley Vipers
- social media followers
- 336000
- native label
- NBA G League
- sponsor
- Gatorade
- season ends
- April
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Encyclopedic overview
The NBA G League, or simply the G League, is a professional basketball league in North America that serves as the developmental league of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The league comprises 31 teams; as of the 2024–25 season, all are single-affiliated or owned by an NBA team except for the independent Mexico City Capitanes.
The league was founded in 2001 as the National Basketball Development League (NBDL), renamed the NBA Development League (NBA D-League) in 2005. It received its present name in 2017 under a deal with Gatorade, becoming the first U.S. professional sports league named for an advertiser.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NBA G League” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.