Many sports were done but only one was done by DR. James Naismith, Canadian fitness instructor. The game was made and started playing back in the day. It would soon become a game that would be played all over the world and would be a sport that one day people would 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 ring. Once your team has scored, the ball is given to the other team to try and get to a hoop. If they don’t make a hoop, the other team can try to get the missed shot rebounded and then can run down the court for 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 announcers could see the ball to talk on the radio and so 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 soccer 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 three-point goal is 28 feet or 30 feet. Whereas for college it’s 22 feet from 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 courts are smaller and the goals are also shorter. Even though the girls are girls, they still have smaller courts and shorter goals, even when you have a 6’8 black girl who will handle everything you shoot.
There are breaks between each quarter, but they are mostly not used just because sometimes they need to speed up games. There is a halftime after the first two quarters. That is when the goals will change and each team will be protecting the goals they were trying to score.
Basketball is not only a fun sport, but it’s also a sport that will help keep you in good shape, so get out there and start playing some roundball.