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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. On August 7, 2010, Corey Fisher scored 105 points during a semi-professional summer league game. In basketball, points are the sum ...
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 ...
Taller, bigger players have a longer reach, are able to engage in more aggressive body checking, and have greater leverage for shooting, particularly on a slap shot [citation needed] (examples include Tyler Myers at 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m), and Eric Staal, Joe Thornton, Rick Nash, and Ryan Getzlaf, all at 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m).
The past two men’s basketball seasons have shaken Mobley’s faith in his vision if only because FLBC has been so overmatched. It’s one thing to lose every game. It’s another to trail 61-0 ...
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.
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 ...
Meet Red Auerbach, Larry Bird and the city of Boston: the villains of HBO's "Winning Time" and real-life nemeses of the Los Angeles Lakers.
In basketball, there are five players on the court per team, each assigned to positions. From a strategic point of view, these players have been assigned to positions defined by the role they play. Players are split into 3 main categories: guard, forward, and center, with the standard team featuring two guards, two forwards, and a center.