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    Basketball is a team sport played indoors between two teams of five players each. The objective is to score more points than the opposing team by shooting a ball through a hoop mounted high on the opposing team's side of the court. A field goal is normally worth two points, unless shot from behind the three-point arc for three points. Fouls result in free throw shots worth one point each. The game was invented in 1891 by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts using peach baskets as goals.

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    Basketball is a team sport played indoors between two teams of five players each. The objective is to score more points than the opposing team by shooting a ball through a hoop mounted high on the opposing team's side of the court. A field goal is normally worth two points, unless shot from behind the three-point arc for three points. Fouls result in free throw shots worth one point each. The game was invented in 1891 by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts using peach baskets as goals.

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    Basketball is a team sport played indoors between two teams of five players each. The objective is to score more points than the opposing team by shooting a ball through a hoop mounted high on the opposing team's side of the court. A field goal is normally worth two points, unless shot from behind the three-point arc for three points. Fouls result in free throw shots worth one point each. The game was invented in 1891 by James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts using peach baskets as goals.

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    Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five

    players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, usually indoors. Each
    team tries to score by tossing the ball through the opponent’s goal, an elevated
    horizontal hoop and net called a basket.

    A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point
    line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or
    designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point free throws.
    The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play
    expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.

    The only major sport strictly of U.S. origin, basketball was invented
    by James Naismith on about December 1, 1891, at the International Young Men’s
    Christian Association (YMCA) Training School, Springfield, Massachusetts,
    where Naismith was an instructor in physical education.
    For that first game of basketball in 1891, Naismith used as goals two half-
    bushel peach baskets, which gave the sport its name. The students were
    enthusiastic. After much running and shooting, William R. Chase made a
    midcourt shot—the only score in that historic contest. Word spread about the
    newly invented game, and numerous associations wrote Naismith for a copy of
    the rules, which were published in the January 15, 1892, issue of the Triangle, the
    YMCA Training School’s campus paper.

    While basketball is competitively a winter sport, it is played on a 12-month


    basis—on summer playgrounds, in municipal, industrial, and church halls, in
    school yards and family driveways, and in summer camps—often on an informal
    basis between two or more contestants
    Originally, players wore one of three styles of uniforms: knee-length
    football trousers; jersey tights, as commonly worn by wrestlers; or short padded
    pants, forerunners of today’s uniforms, plus knee guards.
    Clara Baer, who introduced basketball at the H. Sophie Newcomb College
    for Women in New Orleans, influenced the women’s style of play with her set of
    women’s rules, published in 1895. On receiving a diagram of the court from
    Naismith, Baer mistook dotted lines, indicating the areas in which players might
    best execute team play, to be restraining lines, with the result that the forwards,
    centres, and guards were confined to specified areas. This seemed appropriate
    because many felt that the men’s game was too strenuous for women.

    Each team of five players consists of two forwards, two guards, and a
    centre, usually the tallest man on the team. At the beginning of the first period of
    a game, the ball is put into play by a jump ball at centre court; i.e., the referee
    tosses the ball up between the opposing centres, higher than either can jump, and
    when it descends each tries to tap it to one of his teammates, who must remain
    outside the centre circle until the ball is tapped. Subsequent periods of
    professional and college games begin with a throw in from out-of-bounds. Jump
    balls are also signaled by the officials when opposing players share possession of
    the ball or simultaneously cause it to go out-of-bounds.

    The Moldavian national basketball team is the basketball side that


    represents Moldova in international competitions. It is governed by
    the Basketball Federation of Moldova (FBRM)

    I have chosen this sport because besides being interesting, it is also very
    beneficial for health. I played this game both in gymnasium and high school and
    I liked a lot it. I think it was so because I had a very good physical education
    teacher who taught us all the rules of the game and practiced it very often.

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