The NBA is switching basketball manufacturers. Wilson, which made basketballs for the league from 1946-1983, will replace Spalding as the ... plans to use the same leather manufacturer to make ...

In almost 75 years of NBA history, the league has changed its basketball only four times, and those tweaks haven't always stuck. In 2006, for instance, the NBA made the switch from a leather ball ...

Spalding is honoring the kickoff of the 2019 NBA FInals with a nod to its path. Today (May 30), the brand dropped a limited-edition 125th anniversary basketball. Available as the Toronto Raptors ...

The last time training camps opened around the NBA and teams dribbled, passed and shot something other than a Spalding basketball ... The NFL’s leather footballs have been produced by Wilson ...

That means Spalding will remain one of two companies manufacturing a leather basketball. Molten also produces a ball for FIBA that is made of a different type of leather than the NBA ball.

NBA players rejected the ... hoopster can do the same thing. Spalding, the maker of the new ball, has announced that the league's switch back to leather prompted the company to let fans get ...

The NBA decided to change their official game ball supplier from Spalding to Wilson this offseason. Wilson was the official maker of the NBA basketball for the first 37 years of the league before ...

"Although testing performed by Spalding and the NBA demonstrated that the new composite basketball was more consistent than leather, and statistically there has been an improvement in shooting ...

"Although testing performed by (manufacturer) Spalding and the NBA demonstrated that the new composite basketball was more consistent than leather, and statistically there has been an improvement ...

Although testing performed by Spalding and the NBA demonstrated that the new composite basketball was more consistent than leather, and statistically there has been an improvement in shooting, scoring ...

it will still use a Spalding ball, albeit the leather model favoured by the players. basketball had been in development for eight years, and was first introduced in 2005 at NBA prospect camps.