Thematic : Basketball On Stamps.

Greece
XXV European Men's Basketball Championship
May 4, 1987

Luxembourg
75th Anniversary of Luxembourg Basketball Federation
May 20, 2008

Italy
31st European Basketball Championship for Women
September 22, 2007
The 31st EuroBasket Women competition was held in Italy and took place from September 24 to October 7, 2007. Russia won the gold medal and Spain the silver medal while Belarus won the bronze.

Basketball, an airmail stamp printed by photogravure (Waterlow & Sons, Ltd.), and issued by Nicaragua on November 7, 1949 as one of a set of thirteen stamps commemorating the 10th World Series of Amateur Baseball, for which the finals were held in Managua in 1948, Scott No. C301.

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United States
Basketball Centennial
August 28, 1991
James A. Naismith, a native of Ontario, left Canada in 1890 for a position as a physical education teacher at the YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts. While there, Naismith was asked to invent a new sport for young men that could be played in the winter off-season between the end of football and the beginning of baseball in the spring. The game that Naismith invented in 1891 was basketball.

Naismith's basketball was based on aspects of a favorite childhood game known as "Duck on a Rock," as well as elements of soccer, lacrosse, and football. The result was a skillful, less aggressive game suitable for play indoors.

United States
Youth Team Sports - Basketball
May 27, 2000
One of the four designs features basketball

Hungary
Women's Basketball European Championship
June 4, 2015
The 2015 European Women Basketball Championship, commonly called EuroBasket Women 2015 was the 35th edition of the continental tournament in women's basketball, sanctioned by the FIBA Europe. The tournament was co-held in Hungary and Romania. Serbia took a historical 76-68 triumph against France to win the title.

Algeria
World Basketball Championship
May 15, 2002
The 2002 FIBA World Championship was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. from August 29 to September 8, 2002.

Bulgaria
The 100th Anniversary of Basketball
December 6, 1991

Greece
European Basketball Championship
June 21, 1995
The 1995 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1995, was held in Greece between June 21 and July 2, 1995. Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Croatia, and Greece were the top four teams in the final standings; Yugoslavia won the championship title.

Here are images of the two stamps in a set depicting women basketball players, designed by Martha Poppe, printed by lithography, and issued by Brazil on July 24, 1983 to publicize the 9th FIBA World Championship for Women, hosted by Brazil, Scott Nos. 1865 & 1866.

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Yugoslavia
Centenary of Basketball
June 15, 1991

Poland
Centenary of Basketball
August 19, 1991

United States
Olympic Games Los Angeles
June 17, 1983
One of the four 28c denomination stamps depicts women's basketball.

Bulgaria
European Basketball Championship
June 20, 1957
The 1957 FIBA European Championship was held in Sofia, Bulgaria in June 20 - 30. There were 16 teams in the competition; the Soviet Union won the championship.