The total number of teams for the professional team are 29 and one team from Canada. For college amount of team are 68 teams all from different colleges. counties all over play basketball but the most common are from the United States. Europe also is another country that is a big fan of basketball. There is 26 million people in the United States that play basketball. About 15.5 million play just pick up games or casual basketball. 4.6 million people play in organized leagues as of 2012. Basketball is the most played sport in America with 26.3 million people. http://www.vcstar.com/sports/local-roundup-dec-30-prep-basketball-soccer-wrestling_05954206 https://www.sfia.org/press/433_Over-26-Million-Americans-Play-Basketball http://www.cchsrams.org/girls-boys-basketball-playoff-run/ |