>A basketball goal is scored when a team shoots the ball into a basket.
>Two points are awarded when the player is near to the basket or closer to it than the three point line.
>Three points are awarded when a player shoots the ball into the basket behind the three point line.
>A personal foul or a technical foul will give the opponent a free throw.
>Violations of rules during the progress of play are called 'fouls'.
>Dr.James Naismith is credited for creating the game on a rainy day of December 1891.
>Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts , USA thus became the first basketball court.
>In early days, the basketball blackboard were actually made of wire and the hoops were originally peach basket.
<The first official game was played in the YMCA gymnasium in Albany, New York on January 20, 1892 with 9 nine players. The game ended 1-0.
>Some rules of the game are dervied from the childrens game - Duck on a Rock.
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