Basketball : An Out Line Of The Event Or Sport

Shooting a basketball involves many steps. To shoot a basketball a hoop is needed. So, go to a gymnasium at school,rec center, or even your driveway. Grab a basketball and dribble a few times to get comfortable with the basketball before shooting the basketball. Go to a spot closer to the hoop, like the left or right block on the marked court. It is a square shape located on the floor of the gym. After finding the blocks or the place you choose to shoot from, the first thing you should do is line your foot up to the basket. If you are left-handed, your left foot should be lined up to the basket. If you are right-handed, your right foot should be lined up to the basket. Once you have lined your dominant foot up, the other foot that is not lined

Basketball size differentiation can be a big deal when it comes to the WNBA and NBA. In the NBA the ball size ranges from 29 ½ inches to 30 inches. “Women’s hands are smaller than men’s on average, so it’s easier for the women to handle

Basketball is the best sport because it can be played with two to five players each side, and also a sport to play with friends and other competitors. According to Total Sportek, Basketball is the second most played game in the world. It had at least a billion followers and is a major sport in USA with NBA generating over 4.75 billion dollars per year in revenue. Basketball can also be played with a person and be entertained for hours. It is a good sport to play because playing basketball has benefits on health and fitness. It burns calories by running, jumping, and quick lateral movements done in basketball provides a significant amount of aerobic exercise and can burn a great deal of calories. It helps develop concentration and self discipline through the rules implemented in the game, breaking them can result to penalties for the player and the team. Practicing self discipline helps one another become more competitive and fair to their game focused in succeeding. It improves awareness in which a person will be aware of oneself and evolve the understanding the relationship of these objects when there is a change of position. Enhanced confidence in which self esteem increases and help gain more confidence, being a confident person has more faith in his or her skills and can face life with a better opposition. Basketball

We can all agree that basketball is almost becoming popular around the world. So many people play this sport but do people know how basketball started and how it evolute throughout the years since basketball was borned? So like every other sports and creations, there has to be a inventor and in basketball there was a man by the name of Dr. James Naismith. “Created in 1891 in a Springfield, Massachusetts YMCA gymnasium has grown into a game played worldwide by more than 300 million people”(historybits.com). So this game has been out for a very long period of time with many changing of the rules in basketball throughout the history. When it was first played in the late 1800s, there were different rules and even different looking basketball. As for the rules, originally there would be 10 people on the court but it first started with 18 people on the court which after couple of years it changed to only 10 people. Substitution was also different and the rule for this was at first no one can enter until the next game. “The rule was changed in 1920 to allow a player to re-enter the game one time. In 1934, the rule was expanded to allow players to re-enter the game twice, and, in 1945 the rule was finally changed to permit players to return to the game an unlimited number of times”(hooptactics.com). The first basketball looked very alike a football but round. The backboards were made out of straight wood and the baskets were made out of peach baskets or square boxes. There was only

Attention Getter: “I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a Baller, I wish I had a girl who looked good I would call her.” That timeless phrase coined by Ski-Lo in the early nineties, resonates with so many of us because all of those goals are things that people relate to being successful. And while I can’t help you with the first and the last respectively, becoming a “Basket-baller” is quite feasible, with a little hard work.

Purpose: to inform the audience about basketball such as the basketball rules and history and development of basketball.

Basketball has been played all around the world and there are many different rules and regulations when playing this sport. Basketball has many different levels of experience. There is a level at the fifth and sixth grade level, the seventh and eighth grade level, the junior varsity level, the varsity level in high school, the college level, and the professional level or National Basketball Association (NBA). Basketball was invented in 1892 by a Canadian doctor named James Naismith. He started with having simple rules so all the players were able to get used to playing the sport very easily. Basketball has changed over the years and it will continue to change in the future. For all the different levels of basketball, there are different rules and judgments on how the game should be played. Basketball has many different ways to play effectively. It is a very competitive sport and as a player it is his/her job to figure out which is the best way to beat the opponent on both sides of the ball.

The basketball rim is about 10ft above the ground. The court is in a rectangular shape the way you get up and down the court is by dribbling or passing also the basketball hoops are located on each side of the court. The court is divided into two main sections by the mid court line the team with the ball is considered on offense and the team without the ball is on defense if the offensive team gets the ball into play behind mid court line it has ten seconds to get past half court and if they fail to get the ball past half court then therefore the other team will have possession of the ball. Also each game is divided into two halves the pro level has four quarters and each quarter is about 12 minutes long so in total it is about 48 minutes.

Basketball is a favorite sport to many Americans. It is a sport that takes strength, determination, hand-eye coordination and many other challenging aspects. All of this skill is used to do one thing, put the ball in the hoop. The ball itself is surprisingly very complex and takes a while to be comfortable with it.

The annex gymnasium is adjacent to the Olympic village in Washington Heights, has an area of about 5,591 square meters with 40 meters long and 22 meters wide basketball court. The main gymnasium has a floor space of 25,396 square meters with two stories above and two stories below. Between the two halves of the roof, there is a large skylight that allows natural light into the building as well as creating a dramatic atmosphere.

As the game became more popular, there were several early important changes to the original game. Wooden backboards were added in 1896. As mentioned before, the game grew more popular and what was originally a sport created for exercise became a source of entertainment and spectators. The spectators would reach over the balcony and disturb player’s shots so backboards were added. They eventually changed to clear glass so people seated behind the basket could see. The peach basket was eliminated next and replaced with iron hoops. Nets were added to the hoops so the referee could see the ball going through the hoop. Figure 3 lists many of the major rules and changes that made basketball what is

Basketball is a sport that consist of a lot of physical and mental capabilities. Players are required to know how to properly dribble, pass, and rebound the ball while inquiring the knowledge to know what other player the person should give the ball to. After working so hard on the

Bas·ket·ball(ˈbaskətˌbôl)- a game played between two teams of five players in which goals are scored by throwing a ball through a netted hoop fixed above each end of the court.

Open with Impact: The game of basketball is a multimillion-dollar industry and is an easy sport to play. The sport has gained worldwide popularity because it can be played competitively or just for fun.

     Basketball, on the other hand is played inside on a court. There are only five players per team on the court at a time. Players have to play both offense and defense simultaneously. The scoring in basketball is also different; points can be scored in increments of one, two and three, these are scored by shooting the ball into a hoop. Basketball is a game that is played by skilled people who can jump high, shoot well, and have great ball handling skills. Playing basketball requires you to have to have endurance, because running from offense to defense and back to offense requires you to be in great shape. Basketball is played at a medium pace and can be very exciting and nail biting.