Basketball New South Wales (BNSW) the governing body of basketball in the state of New South Wales, was founded in 1938. Over the past seven decades BNSW has grown from just four member associations at its inception to one hundred associations today.
Encompassed within these member associations are approximately 46,000 registered members. In addition to registered players, BNSW’s membership is made up of referees, coaches and administrators.
BNSW’s active members range in age from as young as 4 years old up to the grand old age of 81.

   Basketball NSW members associations range from Albury on the Victorian border up to Ocean Shores on the Queensland border and as far west as Hay.
Of the one hundred associations nineteen are within the Metropolitan area, these associations contain almost half of BNSW’s registered members, with the remaining members spread across the eighty one Country associations.