Sports Business 

SBRnet Sports Business Research -  info   

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Market data for Basketball:

CONSUMER EXPENDITURES: Basketballs, Basketball Shoes, Portable Backboard Systems, and Total Market

PARTICIPATION: Basketball (Total), Basketball-Internet Usage, and College/High School

IMPORTS: Basketballs

ATTEND/TV VIEWING: College Attendance Profile, College TV View Profile, NBA Attendance, NBA Attendance Profile, NBA TV View Profile, Minor Lg. Attend. Profile, Minor Lg. TV View Profile, WNBA Attendance Profile, WNBA TV View Profile, and NCAA Attendance

USA Today Salaries Database for Basketball

National Basketball Association (NBA)

Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)

Federation Internationale de Basketball (FIBA)

Association for Professional Basketball Research

Basketball Reference

History of Basketball

Our Library uses the Library of Congress classification system.  Books on this topic can found in these call number ranges:

GV882-GV889.23 Basketball

GV885.4-.49  Amateur

GV885.5-.59  Professional

How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams) Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc.

Basketball