By: Luis JimenezNovember 3,2010

Basketball is a sport, which is played with a leather ball and two baskets.

It involves dribbling, running, passing, shooting, and jumping

•Dr. James Naismith is the person known world-wide as the inventor of basketball.

•Born in Canada in 1861.

• He got the concept from a childhood game he called duck-on-a-rock.

•He moved to Springfield, Massachusetts

•The reason he invented the sport was because he wanted to created a game for the students to play inside because of the Winter.

•The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals

There many rules in basketball.

There are:• Violations• Fouls, which they are

Flagrant, Personal, Technical.

• Click for more information about the rules.

Referee Signals

On basketball you can get 3-points shooting behind the three point arc.

Anything inside the three point arc it counts as two points

If you get fouled you could shoot free throws from the free throw line, count as one point.

You could also get 4 or 3 points if you get foul on the processes of shooting and make the basket. You shoot a foul shoot and if you make it you get the extra point

The courts dimensions depend on the level of competition.

The courts is smaller for High School, than the college level, then the professional level is the largest.

Many of the Greatest Basketball Players come out of the NBA.Some are like Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Magic Johnson, Kareem-Adul Jabber, and many more.

The NBA ( National Basketball Association) is one of the most popular league in the world.

It is none because of the great talented player that play there.

It also has currently has 84 international player which helps it get more popularity around the word.

I wasn’t a person who was into basketball my early years, but I decided to try-out with my friends on our freshmen year. Ever since then I love to go to the park or to a gym and play. I like the sport because it’s a good way to get thing off your head. It’s a good way to have fun and let go off my problems for awhile. It is also a good way off exercise. It helps me stay in shape. For my whole time in high school I have always played ball. Either if its on a team or by myself. It’s just something I like to do.