What is the basketball?

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Basketball is a team sport, player between two sets of five players each for four years or quarters of ten or twelve minutes each. The goal of the team is to score points by introducing a ball through the basket, a ring at 3.05 meters above the surface of the game track from which a net hangs. The score for each basket or basket is two or three points, location of the position from which the shot is made to the basket, or one, if it is a free throw due to a lack of an opposing player. The winning team is the one with the highest number of points.


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The contact with the ball is made with the hands. Players, also called basketball players, cannot move by holding the ball, but by throwing it against the ground. The team in possession of the ball or attacker tries to score points through shots, basket tickets or teammates, while the defending team seeks to avoid stealing the ball or making blocks. When a shot towards the basket fails, the players of both teams try to catch the rebound.

James Naismith, a Canadian professor of physical education, invented basketball in 1891 at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. The sport quickly gained popularity and expanded through American universities and colleges in the early twentieth century.


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The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) emerged in 1932 and the sport debuted at the Summer Olympics in 1936. In 1946 the main professional league of the United States, the National Basketball Association (NBA), where great players were formed who contributed to the growing popularity of basketball: Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell in the 1960s and, subsequently, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan, the latter considered by many to be the best player in the story

Basketball is one of the most practiced sports in the world, with more than 450 million players in 2013. Numerous leagues and championships are played throughout the world, especially in Europe and more recently in Asia, where the sport has emerged in the XXI century. Women represent a good part of the practitioners, despite less exposure in women's basketball media. Some variants have been developed, such as wheelchair basketball for disabled athletes, streetball and 3x3 basketball. There is a specific culture that emerged from the sport that is expressed in music, literature, cinema and videogames.



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