I will present you the sport basketball. Everybody knows it, almost everybody played it once. I will you inform about the history of the game, some important facts and rules.
Fist some historical facts. Eighteen-hundred-and-ninety-one Dr. James Naismith, professor at the Springfield College in Massachusetts, invented the real basketball. The new sport should be without body-contact. At the beginning there were 9 players for each team but that didnŒt work. So Naismith reduced the teams to 5 players. Naismith formed a team and let them play against other college-teams. So other colleges began to play the new sport. This is the beginning of the modern basketball.
The colleges founded a league called NCAA (thatŒs short for National Collegiate Athletic Association). Now the NCAA is the league for young players who want to go to the NBA, the most import
Now a short lesson in basketball-rules. There are a lot of different things to know but IŒll tell you only the most important ones. A game could be played on one or two baskets. If you play on one basket itŒs called streetball. If you play on two baskets itŒs a regular basket-game which is divided into four quarters of twelve minutes. Ten players, five per team play at the same time. They whoŒve got the ball are in the offence. The other team tries to stop them by getting the ball. So for this sport you have to be able to play offence and defence.
To dribble the basketball, you must place one hand on top of the ball and repeatedly bounce it off the floor. The two important points with dribbling are 1.) you canŒt dribble with two hands, and 2.) you canŒt hold the ball and run with it for more than two steps. You have to know that a player--when
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