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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 ...
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 original 1891 "Basket Ball" court in Springfield College. It used a peach basket attached to the wall. Naismith is credited with inventing basketball. Naismith was an outstanding football player at McGill University in Montreal when he realized he needed to invent an indoor game for the winter due to the weather conditions.
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 Indonesia Basketball League (IBL; Indonesian: Liga Bola Basket Indonesia) is the preeminent men's professional basketball league in Indonesia, founded by Indonesian Basketball Association (Perbasi) in 2003. [1] From 2010 to 2015 it was known as the National Basketball League (NBL) and organised by DBL Indonesia. [2]
The basket or hoop is a piece of basketball equipment, consisting of the rim and net. It hangs from the backboard. The first basket was a peach basket installed by James Naismith. [1] The bottom was eventually cut out of the basket, and the basket was eventually replaced with the metal rim and net. [2] [3] [4] Today there are breakaway rims.
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It used a peach basket attached to the wall. An illustration of the first game by participant Genzabaro Ishikawa. The First Team were the first players known to have played the sport of basketball , having been taught the game in 1891 by James Naismith , who is recognized as the inventor of the sport. [ 1 ]