Basketball

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Basketball is a sport usually played indoors, equipment in which two sets of five players each try to score points or baskets throwing a ball, so that descend through one of the two baskets suspended above their heads at each end of the track. The team that scores more points, making shots from the field or from the area of free throws, wins the game.  

Because of its dynamism, showmanship and frequency of scoring actions, basketball is one of the sports with the highest number of spectators and participants in the world.

basketball court

Measures tennis basketball are different depending on the country; in any case, it is a rectangular area with dimensions ranging between 22 meters 13 to 29 meters by 15 and at each end there is a vertical panel approximately 2 meters by 1 which is anchored to a wall, suspended from the ceiling or otherwise mounted so that its lower edge is 2.7 meters above the ground. Baskets or baskets are firmly attached to the boards at a height of 3 meters above the playing surface; each has a diameter of 46 centimeters and consists of a horizontal metal ring, whose edge hangs a white mesh network. The official ball is made ​​of leather or nylon, weighs 624 grams to 567 has a circumference of about 76 centimeters. 

A basketball team, is led by a coach, consists of power forward, power forward, small forward, shooting guard and base. At the start of a game the players are placed around a central circle of 61 cm radius located in the center of the track, except one player per team, which stands at the center of it to try to get the ball in the kick - off.  

basketball is an Olympic sport since the 1936 Summer Olympics as one of the sports that has more excitement among the spectators. It is held indoors for 16 days. This competition the dispute twelve male and twelve female teams, with twelve players on each team, play five players on court per team, and the limit set for this sport athletes are 144 male and 144 female.