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• Rules and regulations in basketball

  Friday, March 26th, 2010

  Measurements and time limits discussed in this section often vary among tournaments and organizations; international and NBA rules are used in this section. The object of the game is to outscore one’s opponents by throwing the ball through the opponents’ basket from above while preventing the opponents from doing so on their own. An attempt [...]

• International basketball

  Saturday, December 26th, 2009

  XX. Olympic games Munich 1972 Krešimir Ćosić of Yugoslavia (blue shirt) vs. Petr Novicky of Czechoslovakia The International Basketball Federation was formed in 1932 by eight founding nations: Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania and Switzerland. At this time, the organization only oversaw amateur players. Its acronym, in French, was thus FIBA; the “A” [...]

• National Basketball Association

  Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

  Milwaukee Bucks playing the Charlotte Bobcats in a regular season game In 1946, the National Basketball Association (NBA) was formed, organizing the top professional teams and leading to greater popularity of the professional game. An upstart organization, the American Basketball Association, emerged in 1967 and briefly threatened the NBA’s dominance until the rival leagues merged [...]

• U.S. high school basketball

  Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

  Before widespread school district consolidation, most United States high schools were far smaller than their present day counterparts and during the first decades of the 20th century basketball quickly became the ideal interscholastic sport due to its modest equipment and personnel requirements. In the days before widespread television coverage of professional and college sports, the [...]

• College basketball and early leagues

  Monday, March 30th, 2009

  Kent Benson of Indiana University Bloomington takes a hook shot. Naismith and Berenson were instrumental in establishing college basketball. Naismith coached at University of Kansas for six years before handing the reins to renowned coach Phog Allen. Naismith’s disciple Amos Alonzo Stagg brought basketball to the University of Chicago, while Adolph Rupp, a student of [...]

• Early days of basketball

  Thursday, March 12th, 2009

   The first basketball court: Springfield College. Basketball is unique in that it was invented by one person, rather than evolving from a different sport. In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born physician of McGill University and minister on the faculty of a college for YMCA professionals (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, sought [...]

• Basketball

  Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

  Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005. Basketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points on one other by throwing a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules. Since its invention in 1891, it has developed to become a [...]