Sports

Basketball Facts

>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.