Law of Inertia

Newton’s 1st Law of motion occurs in basketball when

shooting. Well actually those few seconds of holding
the ball before shooting a free throw, when the ball is
at rest. The player only has a little bit to make a shot,
after the ball has been in motion from being dribbled
up and down the court until the player was fouled.
When holding the ball, the ball is at rest making all
the forces balanced. The force of gravity applied to
the hands of the shooter. Those two forces are the
only ones acting upon it at this time. When they
releases, the forces become unbalanced.

Law of Acceleration
Newton’s 2nd Law of motion occurs when passing the
ball. The 2nd law states that if the mass of an object
remains constant, acceleration increases as the force
increases. So when passing, you have to use the right
amount of the force according to the amount of mass
of the basketball, to throw it where intended and
how fast or hard.

Law of Action-Reaction
Newton’s 3rd Law of Action-Reaction could be used in
basket ball, when shooting or also rebounding. When
a player makes their shout to the basket, their hand
exerts a force on the ball towards the basket (which
would be the action.) Then in return the ball could
also bounce back off the backboard with the same
amount of the force (which would be the reaction).
Which could cause a player to jump to the ball and
exert force again towards the basket, which is
rebounding.