Welcome back to my blog! Today, I will be telling you about basketball, one of my favorite sports. I actually play in a basketball team in RCBA and really enjoy it; I would really recommend joining RCBA to other people.

The Beginning

Something that many people do not know about basketball is that it has immediate roots in Canada, since the guy who invented this sport was Canadian.

In 1891 basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian who hailed from Almonte, Ontario. He was given the task of creating a new indoor sports activity for a physical education class at the international YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts, and designed what we now call basketball. The original game involved 13 rules and a peach basket hung ten feet above the floor. Even though it took place in the United States, at least ten of the players who participated in the first-ever game were university students from Quebec. Basketball became an Olympic sport at the Summer Games in Berlin, Germany in 1936.

The following is a video about the origins of basketball.

To learn more about the first basketball game, click here.

Playing Basketball

Basketball is a team sport. Two teams of five players each try to score by shooting a ball through a hoop elevated 10 feet above the ground. The game is played on a rectangular floor called the court, and there is a hoop at each end. The court is divided into two main sections by the mid-court line.

Each team is assigned a basket or goal to defend. This means that the other basket is their scoring basket. At halftime, the teams switch goals. The game begins with one player from either team at center court. A referee will toss the ball up between the two. The player that gets his hands on the ball can tip it to a teammate. This is called a tip-off.

The ball is moved down the court toward the basket by passing or dribbling. The team with the ball is called the offense. The team without the ball is called the defense. They try to steal the ball by deflecting passes and getting rebounds.

When a team makes a basket, they score two points and the ball goes to the other team. If a basket is made outside of the three-point arc, then that basket is worth three points. A free throw is worth one point.

If the offensive team puts the ball into play behind the mid-court line, it has ten seconds to get the ball over the mid-court line. If it doesn’t, then the defense gets the ball. Once the offensive team gets the ball over the mid-court line, it can no longer have possession of the ball in the area in back of the line. If it does, the defense is awarded the ball.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post. If you want to learn about more sport, check out the Sports category on my blog. Feel free to post any comments, feedback, or questions in the comments section down below.