I will present you the sport basketball. ... I will you inform about the history of the game, some important facts and rules and also about the fascination of basketball. ... James Naismith, professor at the Springfield College in Massachusetts, invented the real basketball. ... 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 important basketball-league. There play the stars who receive more than ten million dollars per year for playing basketball.
Today the NBA is the best basketball-league on the planet earth and every kid knows at least the most famous stars like Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and Grant Hill. ... So everybody makes money with basketball. Here you can see how much you have to pay for a basketball-team. ... The outstanding an most famous basketball-player of the last century, Michael "Air" Jordan got 31 million dollars per year from his club and additional twenty million from advertisement contracts with Nike and other companies. ... ItŒs mostly made of leather. An official NBA basketball from Spalding costs about eighty dollars. A normal basketball can you get for five to fifty dollars.
Another important equipment every basketball-player cares on are the shoes. ... This is why basketball shoes got anti-shock soles. ...
Rules
Now a short lesson in basketball-rules. ... If you play on one basket itŒs called streetball, because mostly on the streets is only one basket. When youŒre playing streetball a team normally gotŒs three players. If you play on two baskets itŒs a regular basket-game which is divided into four quarters of twelve minutes. ...
In Basketball you have two choices for moving: you can pass the ball to your team member or you can dribble. ...
To dribble the basketball, you must place one hand on top of the ball and repeatedly bounce it off the floor. ... ItŒs not allowed to touch or push the opposite if youŒre moving. ... ThereŒs one large line under the basket called the "3-point-line" because you get 3 points if you score behind this line. ...
The hole field is called the "court" and itŒs about 28 meters long and 15 meters wide.
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