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At 1955, the name was changed and adapted to the Indonesian vocabulary, become Persatuan Bola Basket Seluruh Indonesia, but still abbreviated as PERBASI. [ 1 ] Perbasi adheres to a tiered vertical system, starting from the association level, Perbasi branch administrators (pengcab), Perbasi regional administrators (pengda), up to the Perbasi ...
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 ...
Buzzer beater – A basket in the final seconds of a game (right before the buzzer sounds) that in itself results in a win or overtime. Dunk – (v) To score by putting the ball directly through the basket with one or both hands. (n) A shot made by dunking. Fadeaway – A jump shot taken while jumping backwards, away from the basket.
La leggenda del basket. Milano: Baldini Castoldi Dalai. ISBN 9788884906267. Bjarkman, Peter C. The Biographical History of Basketball (McGraw-Hill, 1999) Grasso, John. Historical Dictionary of Basketball (Scarecrow Press, 2011) Josza Jr., Frank P. The National Basketball Association: Business, Organization and Strategy (2011) Peterson, Robert W ...
The Thunder score 103.5 points-per-100, a top-five mark, with Gilgeous-Alexander at the controls, serving as the engine of that attack as the NBA’s leader in drives to the basket per game ...
The center (C)— also known as the five, the pivot, or the big; typically plays near the baseline or close to the basket (the "low post"). They are usually the tallest players on the floor. Centers usually score "down low", or "in the paint" (near the basket, in the key), but there have been many centers who are good perimeter shooters as well.
The Premier Basketball League (formerly: Kompetisi Bola Basket Utama or Kobatama), in Indonesian: Liga Bola Basket Utama, often abbreviated to the PBL, is the pre-eminent semi-professional men's basketball league in Indonesia, competed by 8 clubs across the country.
In 1955, due to the improvement of the name in accordance with Indonesian rules, the federation was renamed Persatuan Bola Basket Seluruh Indonesia (PERBASI). Perbasi was later accepted as a member of FIBA in 1953, and a year later, for the first time Indonesia sent a team to compete in the 1954 Asian Games in Manila. [citation needed]