Backlight assembly and method of driving the same

The backlight assembly includes a plurality of a plurality of light generation regions, each corresponding to the dimming blocks and a plurality of drive units for supplying power to each light generation block so as to supply light to the display panel divided into a plurality of dimming regions. A plurality of light-generating block is divided into a plurality of light source units, each drive unit supplies power to the at least two light-generating block comprises at least two light source units. Accordingly, the light-generating blocks connected to the same drive unit can be arranged distributed in a plurality of light source units, whereby the use of multiple drive units to drive a whole one of the light source unit can be prevented from being the concentration of strain on a particular drive unit is.