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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 ...
Typewritten first draft of the rules of basketball by Naismith. On 15 January 1892, James Naismith published his rules for the game of "Basket Ball" that he invented: [1] The original game played under these rules was quite different from the one played today as there was no dribbling, dunking, three-pointers, or shot clock, and goal tending was legal.
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.
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 ...
The Indonesian Basketball League awards a championship trophy (or cup) to the winning team at the end of each year (league).. The most recent team that won the championship in the 2023 season is Prawira Bandung.
Under all basketball rule sets, a team attempting to throw a ball in-bounds has five seconds to release the ball towards the court. [1] The five second clock starts when the team throwing it in has possession of the ball (usually bounced or handed to a player while out of bounds by the official).
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]
The interior of the Indonesia Arena in August 2023. The first event in the arena was a test event for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup called "Indonesia International Basketball Invitational" held on 2 to 5 August 2023.