Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been home to many teams and events in professional, semi-professional, amateur, college, and high-school sports.
 Philadelphia is one of twelve cities that hosts teams in all four major sports leagues in North America, and Philadelphia is one of just three cities in which one team from every league plays within city limits.
 These major sports teams are the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association and the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League.
 Each team has played in Philadelphia since at least the 1960s, and each team has won at least one championship.
 Since 2010, Philadelphia has been the home of the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer which plays in suburban Chester, Pennsylvania, making the Philadelphia market one of nine cities that hosts a team in the four major sports leagues and the MLS.
 Philadelphia hosts several college sports teams, including the Philadelphia Big 5 schools and Temple's Division I FBS football team.
 Many of these teams have fan bases in both Philadelphia and the surrounding Delaware Valley.
 In addition to the major professional and college sports, numerous semi-pro, amateur, community, and high school teams play in Philadelphia.
 The city hosts numerous sporting events, such as the Penn Relays and the Collegiate Rugby Championship, and Philadelphia has been the most frequent host of the annual Army-Navy football game.
 Philadelphia has also been the home of several renowned athletes and sports figures.
 Philly furthermore has played a historically significant role in the development of cricket and extreme wrestling in the United States.
Evans Russ Mensah (born 25 July 1988) is a former Ghanaian football player.
 He played for New Radiant SC, a Dhivehi League team in Maldives.
 He played his academy football in Ghana and South Africa.
 He was the top scorer for his academy teams; he played both in Ghana and South Africa.
 From academy he went straight to Ghana premier league, scoring twice on his debut for Okwahu United.
 He caught the eyes of many teams, which took him to Malaysia to Perlis F.C for his first international trials.
 He came to Ghana to continue his career and later landed a big contract in Thailand Premiere League.
 His speed, pace and skills made him break into the first team.
 He was awarded players player of his team on his first season in the Thai Premieer League
Kadeem Frank Allen (born January 15, 1993) is an American basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA), on a two-way contract with the Celtics' NBA G League affiliate, the Maine Red Claws.
 He was selected with the 53rd pick of the 2017 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics.
Mark Snell is a retired American soccer goalkeeper who played professionally in the North American Soccer League and the Major Indoor Soccer League.
 He coached in the FC Dallas youth system for eight years, and is widely considered one of the top youth development coaches in the country for Zone 1 (6-12 yr olds).
 At FC Dallas he developed the curriculum that included teaching age appropriate tactics through small sided games.
 His philosophy was that the "best train with the best" and created the Premier team format grouping all the top players in each age group onto a team.
 Initially, players of all levels were scattered across many teams within each age group.
 Snell felt the best development model was having teams made up of "like" talent.
 That way training would be competitive for all teams regardless of talent level.
 He also authored and managed the street soccer based "FCD LIGA" which was a 3v3/4v4 in house league on Sundays.
 He grew the wildly successful program from 5 teams to over 30 teams to preach the small sided games format as the best player development tool.
 He also organized and managed the FC Dallas Development League which hosted the top U9 teams in the Dallas Metroplex.
Saul White Jr., nicknamed Flip White or "Flip", is a basketball player and a member of the Harlem Globetrotters.
 He spent his early childhood in a small town outside of Chicago, called Summit, Illinois.
 He started playing basketball at the age of 4.
 His father, Saul White Sr., put the basketball in his hands .
 Saul White Sr. was an outstanding basketball player.
 Saul Sr. played with the likes of former NBA player, Doc Rivers & Isiah Thomas.
 Saul White Jr. wanted to follow after his father's footsteps.
 Saul White Jr. attended Argo Community High School, where he would play basketball for 3 years.
 Saul White Jr. didn't really tap into his potential until his Junior year in high school.
 It took him till Junior year in high school to start loving the game of basketball.
 Saul's Senior year in high school he went out for track & on his first jump ever in high jump.
 He jumped 6 ft 6 & qualified for indoor state.
 Even though he didn't win state, it was a great experience for him.
 He also qualified for outdoor state as well, with another jump of 6 ft 6.
 Saul didn't get many schools looking at him finishing up his Senior year.
 He happened receive a full scholarship to play basketball at Moraine Valley Community College.
 Moraine Valley happened to be the same school his father attended.
 After Moraine Valley, Saul played in the IBL (semi-pro) league for the Ohio Hidden Gems.
 After playing in the IBL, he landed himself with The World Famous Harlem Globetrotters.
 Saul White Jr. continues to follow his dreams.
The NBA G League is the National Basketball Association's official minor league basketball organization.
 The league was known as the National Basketball Development League (NBDL) from 2001 to 2005, and the NBA Development League (NBA D-League) from 2005 until 2017.
 The league started with eight teams until NBA commissioner David Stern announced a plan to expand the NBA D-League to fifteen teams and develop it into a true minor league farm system, with each NBA D-League team affiliated with one or more NBA teams in March 2005.
 At the conclusion of the 2013–14 NBA season, 33% of NBA players had spent time in the NBA D-League, up from 23% in 2011.
 As of the 2017–18 season, the league consists of 26 teams, all of which are either single-affiliated or owned by an NBA team.
The Southampton Evening Cricket League, formed in 1931, is one of the oldest cricket leagues in the United Kingdom.
 The current format of the league consists of four divisions of six to eight teams, playing each other once at home and once away.
 Matches are scheduled to start at 6.30 pm, and are limited to sixteen overs per side, with no bowler permitted to bowl more than four overs.
 The evening format means that matches may be played during the week after work; many teams represent workplaces in and around the city of Southampton.
 Matches were played in a timed format until 1949.
 An indoor league also runs during the winter months, although not all teams play in both versions of the league.
 As of the 30th of May 2012, matches have been temporarily moved away from the league's most famous venue - Hoglands Park.
Kategoria e Tretë is the fourth and lowest professional level of football in Albania.
 In the 2015-16 season, Kategoria e Tretë had 19 teams participating, which were divided into 2 groups.
 Before the start of 2016-17 season, many teams withdrew, which was mainly due to financial problems.
 The competition format changed and now has 10 teams playing in a single league structure.
 The winner and the runner-up are automatically promoted to the Albanian Second Division and the third and fourth placed teams qualify for the play-offs against the teams ranked 11th from the A & B groups of the Albanian Second Division.
 From the 2017-18 season, teams ranked in last spot will relegate to Albanian Amateur Division I
The World Professional Basketball Tournament was an invitational tournament held in Chicago and sponsored by the "Chicago Herald American".
 The annual event was held from 1939–48, and the winner was generally acknowledged as the World Champions of basketball.
 Many teams came from the National Basketball League, but it also included the best teams from other leagues and the best independent barnstorming teams such as the New York Rens and Harlem Globetrotters.
 Games were played at various sites including Chicago Coliseum, International Amphitheater and Chicago Stadium.
John Joseph Mandic (October 3, 1919 – June 22, 2003) was an American professional basketball player of Croatian origin.
 He played college basketball for Oregon State University from 1939 to 1942.
 He played for the Portland Indians of the Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League in the team's debut season in 1946–47, and was drafted by the Washington Capitols in the 1947 BAA draft after the season had finished.
 Instead of playing for the Capitols, he instead signed with the Rochester Royals of the National Basketball League and played for the team for one season.
 He joined the Indianapolis Jets for the 1948–49 BAA season.
 He was sold to the Capitols, the team that had drafted him two years prior, on August 13, 1949.
 After playing 22 games with the Capitols, he was waived, and signed with the Baltimore Bullets, but only managed three games with the team before retiring from playing basketball.

Question: Kadeem Allen is playing basketball on a contract with the team that is in the league that originally began with how many teams?
Answer: eight