Basketball is a sport that has a very long tradition in the territory of ex-Yugoslavia. The breakdown of the country led to a decrease in quality of basketball in the newly created countries. The unsteadiness of quality of the teams in national leagues resulted in formation of the Regional Adriatic Basketball League (ABA) in 2001. The main goal of this research was to measure the competitive balance in ABA, Spanish (ACB) and National Basketball Association League (NBA). The competitive balance was calculated by using Ratio of Standard Deviation index (RSD) and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI).The results of RSD showed that the most equable was ABA league, then came ACB league, while the most unequable was NBA league. The calculating of HHI index gave a different result. NBA is the most equable, then comes ABA league, and the last one is ACB league, which is the most unequable according to this parameter. ABA league has less quality than ACB and NBA league, but the results show that it is competitively the most balanced league. According to the RSD rates, NBA league is the most unequable. The main reason for that is a huge number of teams taking part in the league, which causes the unequable distribution of quality players. According to HHI, NBA is the most equable. Reason for that are different mechanisms whose goal is to reach and maintain the competitive balance.
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