The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional sports league composed of North American hockey teams. NHL is the highest level professional ice hockey game in the world and one of the four major professional sports in North America. * * * Team is divided into two areas, East and West, and each area is divided into three sub-areas. The alliance was founded in Montreux, Quebec 19 17. Initially, it had five teams. After a series of expansion, there are now 30 teams, 24 in the United States and 6 in Canada. After the cancellation of the whole 2004-2005 season due to the strike of players, the league was successful in the 2005-2006 season and the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs. Traditionally, most players are Canadian because of the Canadian origin of the league. With the NHL actively expanding to the United States, the number of European and American players has increased significantly compared with the high level of other leagues and the output of ready-made high-level players after the collapse of the Iron Curtain in Eastern Europe. Even so, half of the players in the 2005-2006 season were born in Canada. Now NHL divides the team into East and West leagues. Each league has three divisions, and each division has five teams. The current division is based on the 1998- 1999 season, and the league has reorganized two new divisions into six divisions; Today's team was determined after two expansion teams, Minnesota Wilderness Team and Columbus Blue Team, joined the league in 2000-200 1 season. The National Football League (NFL) has 32 teams. They are sometimes called franchising because they are all private investments and operate according to the company model. The NFL is the most famous professional football league in America, so it also has the most fans. Other leagues also tried to compete with the NFL, but none of them won as many support and fans as the NFL. The NFL groups each team according to the league and department. The 32 teams competing for the NFL are divided into two major leagues: the American Football Congress (AFC) and the National Football Congress (NFC). Each Federation has 16 teams, which are divided into east, south, west and north districts. There are 4 teams in each division. Major League Baseball (MLB) has 30 teams, which are divided into League of Nations and American League, among which League of Nations (NL) has 16 teams and American League (al) has 14 teams. The two leagues are divided into Eastern Division, Central Division and Western Division respectively. Of all the 30 teams in Major League Baseball, 65,438+0 are from neighboring Canada (toronto blue jays), and the remaining 29 are local teams. NBA League NBA is the abbreviation of National Basketball Association. Founded on June 6th, 1946. When it was founded, it was called BAA, which is the American Basketball Association. It was established by the owners of 1 1 ice hockey venues in order to prevent the venues from being idle outside the ice hockey competition. When BAA was founded, there were *** 1 1 teams: new york Knicks, Boston Celtics, Washington Congress, Chicago Bucks, Cleveland Rebels, Detroit Falcon, Philadelphia Warriors, Pittsburgh Ironman, Providence Steam Team, St. Louis Bomber and Toronto Eskimo. 1949, BAA annexed another league (NBL) at that time and changed its name to NBA. 1949- 1950 season, NBA*** 17 team. 1976 NBA annexed American Basketball Association (ABA), and the number of teams increased to 22. 1980 Dallas Mavericks joined the NBA. 1988, Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat joined the NBA. 1990 Orlando Magic and Minnesota Timberwolves joined the NBA. 1995, two Canadian teams joined the NBA, namely Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies, bringing the number of NBA teams to 29. Starting from 1990, in order to better promote the NBA, the regular season and preseason games were gradually arranged in countries and regions outside the United States, which greatly expanded the overseas market. NBA pre-season draft, pre-season, regular season, NBA All-Star Game, beauty cheerleading, NBA Hall of Fame, world-wide "fan conference" and NBA Dream Team, these important elements constitute the most valuable professional leagues and leagues in the world. Compared with other professional sports in the United States, such as football (NFL), baseball (MLB) or ice hockey (NHL), NBA is the first sports league that crosses national boundaries and has worldwide influence. David stern, the shrewd president of NBA, has spent nearly 20 years, from making star players, developing and selling logo products, to TV broadcasting rights, expanding teams, balancing players' salaries, commercial development of stadiums and so on. NBA has created a classic myth of the perfect combination of modern professional sports and business. The NBA superstars with personality, led by Michael Jordan, have brought a lot of money to the NBA.