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In the 1920s and 1930s, Eastern Basket Ball League (founded in 1909), [24] Metropolitan Basketball League (founded in 1921) [25] and American Basketball League (founded in 1925) [26] were the most important leagues.
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 ...
The American Basketball League (ABL) was an early professional basketball league. During six seasons from 1925–26 to 1930–31, the ABL was the first attempt to create a major professional basketball league in the United States.
General What links here ... This category is for topics specifically related to the sport of basketball in the decade 1920s. 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s ...
The sport of basketball is a major part of events during the Gay Games, World Outgames and EuroGames. Midnight basketball – a basketball initiative to curb inner-city crime in the United States and elsewhere by keeping urban youth off the streets and engaging them with sports alternatives to drugs and crime.
The practice of enclosing basketball courts in chicken wire, chain-link fencing, or rope — giving basketball the nickname "the cage game" — ended.Intended to increase the tempo of play by keeping the ball from going out of bounds, to protect players and rowdy spectators from each other, and to prevent fans from throwing objects onto the court, the use of these "cages" had led to rough ...
General What links here ... This category is for topics specifically related to the sport of basketball in the ... 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s ...
General What links here ... This category is for topics specifically related to the sport of basketball in the decade 1930s. 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s ...