What is Basketball and how it plays ?

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Basketball Facts. James Naismith, a teacher at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, is credited with inventing basketball in 1891. The first “hoops” were actually just peach baskets and the first backboards were made of wire.

The game became an official Olympic event at the Summer Games in Berlin, Germany in 1936.

From New York to London, to Paris, to Beijing.

From Sarajevo to Dafar to Buenos Aires to Los Angels and everywhere in between the game of Basketball is played.

It’s played in the city parks of New York and the dusty plains of Africa, and the expensive designed courts of the NBA.

Basketball dates back as far as 1891 and since then has evolved into a sport played around the world. Many countries have adopted the game such as Russia, Great Britain, Germany, Spain and parts of Asia,

The game is played wherever someone can get a ball, and a mounted ring-like object. Unlike other sports that require multiple people and a lot of equipment, Basketball only requires a Ball and the willingness to play.

it is America where the biggest and most lucrative league in the world lives: the NBA (National Basketball Association).

The First basketball type game may have been played by the early Olmec people of ancient Mexico as early as 500 years go.

object of basketball is to throw the ball (basketball) into a hoop to score points. The game is played out on a rectangular court and depending on which section of court you successfully throw a ball into the basket will depend on how many points are scored.

The Aztec, and Mayan cultures also had a game similar to basketball, only instead of a rubber ball they used the decapitated skulls of their conquered foes.

The ball can be moved around the by dribbling or passing the ball. At the end of the game the team with the most points is declared the winner.

The First true basketball game as we know it was on January 20th, 1892 in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Each team is made up of 12 players with only 5 allowed on the court at any time. The positions are broken up into Point Guard, Defensive Guard, Center, Offensive forward and Defensive Forward

Canadian Doctor James Naismith invented the game for the YMCA to play during the winter months. Naismith wrote simple rules for the game, and nailed up two peach baskets for hoops, most of original Naismith rules are still in place today.

Each player will then take up a position on the court but are allowed to move around as they please.

Some of the rules have changed a bit, and new rules have been added since then, such as in the original game bouncing the ball was prohibited. Of the 13 rules, nine have been modified and kept in the modern game of basketball, the rest have been disregarded.

The court is a rectangular shaped and measures 91 feet long and 50 feet wide. There is a halfway line in which a small circle is found in the centre

The First game consisted of 18 players, or nine to a team which was standard to the baseball teams of the day.

this is where the game starts with a tip off (the ball is thrown in the air by the referee and a player from each team tries to win possession for their team).

Since Naismith or the YMCA didn’t have the money to design a new ball they used a soccer ball.

The concept of the game must have been foreign to the players as the game was played for 30 minutes and the final score was 1-0.

At each end of the court are two baskets both 10 feet in height. A three point arc is the outside ring, whilst in the middle of that is the key which includes a free throw line.

Basketball is a handball game usually played by two teams of five players on the court. A basketball is a spherical object that rolls and bounces. The objective is to get the ball through a hoop mounted high on a backboard at back end. ... Basketball has been played in the Summer Olympic Games since 1936.