Many sports were made but only one was made by DR. James Naismith, Canadian physical instructor. The game was made and started playing on the day. It would soon become a game that would be played all over the world and it would be a sport that people would one day be paid to play, that’s how popular it would become.
The team with the ball has to try to score the other team by putting the ball into the opponent’s hoop. Once your team has scored, the ball is given to the other team to try and get a hoop. If they don’t make a hoop, the other team can try to rebound the missed shot and then can run down the court to make a layup or take a shot for more points. The point of the game is that you would have nine players on each team. Only a few would play on the court at a time, but basketball would soon become a popular sport.
In the 1950s the ball was changed from a soccer ball to a bright orange so that the announcers could see the ball to talk on the radio and so that the people in the stands could also see the ball and know what was going on. . If you had that same soccer ball today and you went to an NBA game, you wouldn’t know where the ball was because they are so small and hard to see.
I think there are three different versions of basketball, if I’m not mistaken there may be four. There’s the NBA, where I think the 3-point target is 28 feet or 30 feet. Whereas for college it’s 22 feet from the goal for a 3-pointer and the goal is shorter, I think then you have the WNBA. Which I don’t know anything about, but I know for a fact that the pitches are smaller and the goals are also shorter. Even though girls are girls, they still have smaller pitches and shorter goals, even when you have a 6’8 black girl who will take care of everything you shoot.
There are breaks between each quarter, but they are mostly not used just because they sometimes need to speed up games. There is a half time after the first two quarters. That’s when the goals will change and each team will be guarding the goals they were trying to score.
Basketball is not only a fun sport, but it’s also a sport that will help you stay in great shape, so get out there and start playing some roundball.