Basketball is one of the most famous and widely viewed sports of the world. Basketball is also a famous spectator sport. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by throwing a ball through a 10-feet (3 m) high hoop (the goal) under organized rules. Basketball involves common techniques of shooting, passing and dribbling. As well as players’ positions and offensive and defensive structures.

The game of basketball involves the scoring of points that are made when the basket is made through the net from above. The team that scores the higher number of points is declared a winner. The ball can be carried forward towards the basket either by dribbling or by keep passing it to the teammates. The only essential equipment for playing basketball is the basketball itself and a court.

Basketball was originally played with an association football ball. The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is widely used nowadays.

There are several variations of the game of basketball such as wheelchair basketball, water basketball, beach basketball, half-court game, streetball, knockout, one-on-one etc. All these forms of basketball have succeeded in making basketball a very popular game.

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