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BASKETBALL

EXPLANATION SHORT HISTORY SET OF SIMPLE RULES

WHAT IS BASKETBALL?

Basketball is a team sport. It is played indoors. Two teams of five players each try to score points against one another by throwing a ball through a 3 m high hoop. Each hoop is placed at the end of a rectangular court.

HISTORY OF BASKETBALL

James Naismith, a Canadian physical education instructor invented basketball in

1891. Back then the game was played with an ordinary soccer ball and peach baskets between 2 teams of 9 players each. There were 13 rules.

• (^) Soon metal rims replaced the peach baskets with netting underneath. Later people cut the netting so that the ball could go through.
• (^) Senda Abbott first introduced basketball to woman in
• (^) Professional basketball started in 1869 in New Jersey, USA.

DURATION

• (^) The game consists of four quarters of 10 minutes each, with a 15-minute break at half-time.
• (^) There are also two-minutes interval between the first and second periods, and between the third and fourth periods.
• (^) If the game is tied after the fourth period, it continues with an extra period of five minutes, then as many five-minute periods as are necessary to break the tie.

SET OF SIMPLE RULES

• (^) The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.
• (^) A player cannot run with the ball.
• (^) A player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it, or dribble the ball with one hand while they are running.