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Twenty-one, also called play21basketball, cutthroat, hustle, tip-it, noyceball, roughhouse, scutter, rough, or rebound [1] is a popular variation of street basketball.The game is played with any number of players on a half court, but typically when not enough players are available to at least play three-on-three.
The act of throwing is an element of many sports, particularly ball games – such as handball, basketball and codes of football – and bat-and-ball games, such as cricket and baseball. The throwing of an opponent is also a key feature of some martial arts and grappling sports. [15]
Gus Macker tournament in Alamogordo, New Mexico, May 2009. The Gus Macker 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament is a nationwide event for players of a variety of age and skill levels in the United States. Although every tournament is different, a typical Gus Macker event involves basketball courts set up in parking lots or closed-off public streets ...
Totem tennis (also known as tether tennis or swingball) is a game where two players use racquets to strike a tennis or sponge ball which has been attached with string to the top of a vertical pole. [1] The pole is either driven into soft ground or anchored with a heavy base. Illustration of tether tennis (1904)
The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is an open-invitation, single-elimination tournament played each summer in the United States, with the stakes being a cash prize (the most recent tournament in 2024 had a $1 million purse going to the winners). The number of teams playing in the tournament has varied since its establishment, but in recent years ...
The inbound pass or throw-in is used to restart play after the ball has gone out of bounds, after a successful field goal or free throw by the opposing team, or after a non-shooting foul. Throw-ins are difficult to defend against and so are not usually strongly contested except in the last few minutes of a close game.
Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...
Tracy McGrady's Ones Basketball League is a one-on-one basketball league. [2] Features of one-on-one basketball which may differ from a normal game include "make it take it", where making a shot is rewarded with possession of the ball instead of giving it to the opposing team. [3] Also, when there is a change of possession, the player who just ...