Basketball Northern Territory

{{Short description|Australian sports governing body}}

{{Infobox sport governing body

|name = Basketball Northern Territory

|abbrev = Basketball NT
BNT

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|sport = Basketball

|jurisdiction = Northern Territory

|founded = {{start date and age|1948}}

|aff = Basketball Australia

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|headquarters = Darwin Basketball Stadium, Marrara, Northern Territory{{cite web|url=https://www.basketballnt.com.au/about-us/contact-us|title=Contact Us|website=Basketball Northern Territory|access-date=18 October 2023|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018140417/https://www.basketballnt.com.au/about-us/contact-us|archive-date=18 October 2023}}

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|chairperson = Craig Smyth (as of 2025){{cite web|url=https://www.basketballnt.com.au/about-us/about-us|title=About Us|website=Basketball Northern Territory|access-date=26 February 2025}}

|chiefexec = Lachlan Coppick (interim, as of 2025)

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Basketball Northern Territory (BNT) is the governing body of basketball in the Northern Territory, Australia.

BNT was founded as Northern Territory Basketball Association (NTBA) in 1948.{{cite web|url=https://websites.mygameday.app/assoc_page.cgi?c=0-166-0-0-0&sID=329248|title=Brief History of DBA|website=Darwin Basketball Association|access-date=22 December 2021|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211222031842/https://websites.mygameday.app/assoc_page.cgi?c=0-166-0-0-0&sID=329248|archive-date=22 December 2021}} Basketball was administered by NTBA until 1963, when its Constitution was amended and the Darwin Amateur Basketball Association (DABA) was formed. The lease on Darwin's main basketball court at Daly Street was transferred from NTBA to DABA in 1974. In the 1980s DABA became known as Darwin Basketball Association (DBA) and in the 1990s NTBA became known as Basketball Northern Territory.

In 2022, the NBL1 North had a club from Darwin – the Darwin Salties – represented for the first time under the joint management of DBA and BNT. It saw the NBL1 become the first Australian sport league to have clubs based in and playing out of every state and territory in Australia.{{cite web|url=https://nbl1.com.au/news/darwin-basketball-northern-territory-to-make-nbl1-a-truly-national-competition|title=Darwin/ Basketball Northern Territory to make NBL1 a truly national competition|work=NBL1.com.au|date=10 November 2021|access-date=10 November 2021}}