Basketball

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Avighna Srivastava
 Introduction of Basketball
• Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five
players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with
the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender's
hoop in diameter mounted 10 feet high to a backboard at each end of
the court) while preventing the opposing team from shooting through
their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from
behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. The team with the
most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires
with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.
 History Of Basketball
• In December 1891, James Naismith, a Canadian professor of physical education and
instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School
(now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, was trying to keep his gym class
active on a rainy day. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and
at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other
ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he invented a new game
in which players would pass a ball to teammates and try to score points by tossing the ball
into a basket mounted on a wall. Naismith wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket
onto an elevated track. Naismith initially set up the peach basket with its bottom intact,
which meant that the ball had to be retrieved manually after each "basket" or point
scored. This quickly proved tedious, so Naismith removed the bottom of the basket to
allow the balls to be poked out with a long dowel after each scored basket
 History Of Basketball Contd..
• Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball. These round
balls from "association football" were made, at the time, with a set
of laces to close off the hole needed for inserting the inflatable
bladder after the other sewn-together segments of the ball's cover
had been flipped outside-in.[6][7] These laces could cause bounce
passes and dribbling to be unpredictable.[8] Eventually a lace-free
ball construction method was invented, and this change to the
game was endorsed by Naismith.