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  2. Backboard (basketball) - Wikipedia

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    It is usually rectangular as used in NBA, NCAA and international basketball. In recreational environments, a backboard may be oval or a fan-shape, particularly in non-professional games. The top of the hoop is 10 feet (3.05 m) above the ground. Regulation backboards are 6 feet (1.83 m) wide by 3.5 feet (1.07 m) tall.

  3. Rules of basketball - Wikipedia

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    The jump ball was still used to start the game and every period, and to restart the game after a held ball. However, the NBA stopped using the jump ball to start the second through fourth quarters in 1975, instead using a quarter-possession system where the loser of the jump ball takes the ball from the other end to start the second and third ...

  4. Basketball - Wikipedia

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    The game ended at 1–0; the shot was made from 25 feet (7.6 m), on a court just half the size of a present-day Streetball or National Basketball Association (NBA) court. At the time, soccer was being played with 10 to a team (which was increased to 11). When winter weather got too icy to play soccer, teams were taken indoors, and it was ...

  5. NBA Commish Adam Silver says he supports the idea of ...

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    This week, Silver floated a drastic rule change for the length of quarters during NBA games. The NBA plays 12-minute quarters. If the NBA were to adopt a Silver proposal, those periods would be ...

  6. Quarters vs Halves: Explaining why men's, women's college ...

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    In 1951, both college basketball and the NBA changed the format of their games to four 10-minute quarters. While the NBA has since kept the format and made each quarter 12 minutes, the NCAA ...

  7. Basketball court - Wikipedia

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    The shape of the key changed from a trapezoid to a rectangle as it is in the NBA, with NBA dimensions. The three-point line moved back to 6.75 meters (22 ft 1.7 in) from 6.25 meters (20 ft 6.1 in), compared to 23 ft 9 in (7.24 m) for the NBA at the top of the arc.

  8. Adam Silver raises possibility of NBA moving to 10-minute ...

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    The NBA is the only league that plays 48-minute games; Olympic games and college basketball games, meanwhile, are 40 minutes long. (College games are played as two 20-minute halves.)

  9. Elam Ending - Wikipedia

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    Games during the G League Winter Showcase, held in December in Las Vegas, employed the Elam Ending after 3 quarters, with the target score set by adding 25 to the leading team's (or tied teams') score. [1] The World Basketball League (1988–1992) used a seven-point Elam period to decide games that were tied after four quarters of play.