BASKETBALL HISTORY

BASKETBALL HISTORY

It is a sport that involves two teams of five players each, aimed at scoring points, nailed , also called baskets or double and / or triple introduce the ball into a hoop placed 3.5 meters from the ground.

It was invented by James Naismith, a physical education teacher in December 1891 at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. It is played with two teams of five, or four by four periods of 10 minutes (FIBA) or 12 minutes (NBA) for each end of the second quarter l uno.A a break, usually 15 to 20 minutes is performed according to the regulation Championship own party you belong to.

Basketball was born from the need for any sport during the winter school YMCA in Massachusetts. Professor at the University of Illions (Massachusetts) James Naismith, (a teacher of physical education) was charged with the mission, in 1891, the development of a sport that could be played indoors due to the winters in this difficult area to bring out any outdoor activity.

Naismith analyzed the sports that were practiced at the time, whose dominant feature was the force or physical contact, and thought of something sufficiently active, requiring more skill than strength and does not have much physical contact. Canada recalled an old childhood game called "Duck on a Rock" (The duck on a rock), which was to try to reach an object placed on a rock throwing a stone. Naismith asked the manager of the school boxes of 50 cm. long but all he got was a peach baskets hanging from the railings sent to the upper gallery surrounding the gym, to a certain height.

BASIC RULES

The ball is played with the hands. You can not use your fist, foot or leg.

To advance. You can not move forward with the ball in his hands without dribbling the ball.

A player may not: throw the ball with both hands simultaneously.

Each player with possession of the ball has to give a pass, shoot baskets or dribble,

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