NBL may refer to:
- Any of several basketball leagues named National Basketball League
- National Basketball League (1898–1904) (United States) (defunct), the first professional men's basketball league in the world
- National Basketball League (Australasia), the pre-eminent professional men's basketball league in Australasia
- National Basketball League (Bulgaria)
- National Basketball League (Canada) 1993-94 (defunct)
- National Basketball League (China), a professional men's basketball minor league in China
- National Basketball League (Czech Republic)
- National Basketball League (Indonesia)
- National Basketball League (Japan)
- National Basketball League (Lithuania), a semi-professional men's basketball minor league in Lithuania
- National Basketball League (Malaysia)
- National Basketball League (New Zealand)
- National Basketball League of Canada
- National Basketball League (United Kingdom) 1972–2003 (defunct)
- National Basketball League (United States) 1937–49 (defunct)
- Namibia Breweries Limited
- National Bicycle League (United States)
- National Blackbelt League, the world's largest and most prestigious sport karate league tournament
- National Book League (United Kingdom)
- National Bowling League (United States) (defunct)
- n-Butyllithium, an organic compound.
- Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, an astronaut training facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center
- New Brunswick Laboratory
- Noble Energy, an oil and natural gas exploration and production company listed on the New York Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol NBL
- Noni B Limited, one of Australia's most respected fashion retailers listed on the Australian Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol NBL
- North Bay League, now part of the North Coast Section of the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF)
- North Berwick Law, a volcanic plug in East Lothian, Scotland
- North British Locomotive Company
Famous quotes containing the words national, basketball and/or league:
“Public speaking is done in the public tongue, the national or tribal language; and the language of our tribe is the men’s language. Of course women learn it. We’re not dumb. If you can tell Margaret Thatcher from Ronald Reagan, or Indira Gandhi from General Somoza, by anything they say, tell me how. This is a man’s world, so it talks a man’s language.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin (b. 1929)
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)
“Stereotypes fall in the face of humanity. You toodle along, thinking that all gay men wear leather after dark and should never, ever be permitted around a Little League field. And then one day your best friend from college, the one your kids adore, comes out to you.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)