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About the equipment of basketball we need a ball, short, jersey, shoes, two hoops perched at a height of ten feet at the opposite ends of a court and ready to play
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Basketball has changed dramatically from when it was first invented by James Naismith in 1891.
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Players used a soccer ball in the first basketball games played at the Springfield YMCA in 1891.
Early Spalding basketballs consisted of four leather panels with a rubber bladder inside. -
Basketball is a popular game in North America, The origin of basketball can be traced back to 1891
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Basketball was invented in December 18, 1891,Basketball is a game that is played by two opposing teams on a court. The aim of the game is to get the basketball, which is a round spherical ball, into the elevated horizontal hoop or basket at the correct end of the court. There are 5 players on each team and they play under a set group of rules
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James Naismith He invented basketball as he needed a way to keep his gym class active on days where it was not possible to be outside
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two teams with 5 players per team, teams play a 48-minute game with four 12-minute sessions. The length can vary based on the type of tournament and organization.
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Basketball's early adherents were dispatched to YMCAs throughout the United States, and it quickly spread through the country. By 1896, it was well established at several women's colleges
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The offense has 10 seconds to advance the ball past the mid-court line and, once past it, commits a backcourt violation if it fails to keep the ball in the frontcourt.
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Basketball was first introduced to the Olympics by the United States as a demonstration sport in the 1904, 1924 and 1928 games. It became a medal sport in 1936
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In the NBA, there must be a minimum of 10 players on a team and a maximum of 15 players.
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The Big Dipper, and Chairman of the Boards, was an American professional NBA basketball player for the Philadelphia
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The team was formed in 1941 as the Fort Wayne (Indiana) Zollner Pistons by auto piston maker Fred Zollner, who moved the team to Detroit in 1957
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was founded in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America. It adopted the name National Basketball Association in the fall of 1949 after adding several teams from the rival National Basketball League (NBL).
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This is the team that snapped the Celtics’ 8-year run as champions,they were one of the 9 Dominant teams in NBA
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He was the only child of his parents and was brought up as a Roman Catholic, During the period of 1969 to 1989, when he was in NBA, he scored 38,387 points
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Milwaukee’s only championship team was the first team in NBA history to win 20 consecutive games in a season, as the off-season acquisition of Oscar Robertson to pair with Kareem turned the Bucks into an unstoppable dynamo they were one of the 9 Dominant teams
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Bill Sharman literally gave his voice to mold this team into a cohesive, defense-oriented unit which set the current record of 33 consecutive wins and also set a standard for regular-season wins which stood for 24 years
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The coach or referee uses a whistle to indicate the start or end of a game
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Under head coach K.C. Jones, the 1985-86 Boston Celtics finished the regular season with a record of 67-15
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Born on the 17th of February 1963, He is the winner of five MVP awards, six NBA Finals MVP awards and three steals titles. He was conferred the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award in 1988
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It's the least the Lakers and Celtics can do for the[ NBA](It's the least the Lakers and Celtics can do for the NBA, after a mostly forgettable playoff season), after a mostly forgettable playoff season
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The US Women's Basketball Olympic team took the Gold Medal in 1996, scored a total of 156 points as a starter in all 8 games, averaging 19.5 points per game, made 28 of 44 free throws
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The 1997 NBA Finals was the concluding series of the 1997 NBA Playoffs that determined the champion of the 1996–97 NBA season
