The chemical reactions and pathways resulting in the breakdown of a nucleoside bisphosphate, a compound consisting of a nucleobase linked to a deoxyribose or ribose sugar esterified with one phosphate group attached to each of two different hydroxyl groups on the sugar.
nucleoside diphosphate catabolic process +
nucleoside monophosphate catabolic process +
nucleoside triphosphate catabolic process +
nucleotide catabolic process +
purine nucleoside bisphosphate metabolic process +