The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) was a professional men's basketball

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 league in the United States

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, which has been on hiatus since the 2009 season.
The Continental Basketball Association was a professional basketball minor league from 1946 to 2009. It billed itself as the "World's Oldest Pro Basketball League", since its founding on April 23, 1946, pre-dated (by two months) the founding of the National Basketball Association

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