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Regulation backboards are made of plexiglass or tempered glass and are rectangular in shape, 6 feet (180 cm) wide by 3.5 feet (110 cm) tall, with a 24-by-18-inch (61 by 46 cm) rectangle marked on the glass immediately above the basket. backcourt 1. The half of the court a particular team is defending. Contrast frontcourt. 2. A team's guards.
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 ...
Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the ...
So many crossover dribbles bounced off feet that Strand lost count of how many balls he chased after. ... FLBC’s basketball teams held 10 p.m. practices at a K-through-12 Christian school about ...
In the 21st century, 20 of the 24 Formula One seasons have been won by competitors shorter than 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in), including 1.71 m (5 ft 7 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) Fernando Alonso, 1.74 m (5 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton, 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Kimi Räikkönen and Sebastian Vettel, and 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Nico Rosberg, with the ...
The most-commonly enforced rule on the key is the "three seconds rule" in which the team of a player on offense who stays on the key for more than three seconds loses possession of the ball. Another rule is the lane violation which occurs if a player from either team enters the key before a free-throw shooter releases the ball in the act of ...
South Sudan’s men’s basketball team defeated Puerto Rico 90-79 in Paris on Sunday in its first ever appearance at the Games, but the result meant more than just picking up two points in Group C.