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Muhammad Afaq

Prof Baber Kamil

HPED 110

7 December 2020

History of Basketball Game

Basketball is a style of football and volleyball style but it is not played on open fields like

the above mentioned games but it is an indoor game played on a rectangular court which is 94

feet long and 50 feet wide. At both ends, at a height of 10 feet above the ground, two mesh

baskets with a diameter of 10 inches and a depth of 18 inches are hung in a large hook inside

which the players have to put the ball on which they get points. Consists of and each half lasts 20

minutes. Each team consists of five players, with coaches, assistant coaches, managers, doctors

and trainers as part of the team, performing their duties off the court. Match officials consist of

two umpires, a referee, a time keeper and a scorer. The match is decided on the basis of points,

but if the points of both teams remain equal until the end of time, then five minutes of spare time

is given. It was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Nye Smith, a professor from Canada who was a

physical instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School in

Massachusetts (now Springfield College). He struggled to train students for fitness and

gymnasium during the rainy and snowy winters, and tried to keep gymnasium classes at his

school open even in bad weather. To this end, they began to consider an indoor game that could

be played in the long winter season in New England, and by playing it, their boys could stay fit

and strong.

During this time many sketches of sports came to his mind but he liked the football style

game which can be played under the roof, he hung a peach basket at a height of 10 feet and ran
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into it to put a football ball in it. Tested After hanging the basket on both ends of the 25 feet long

and 20 feet wide room, two teams of five players was formed and a ball weighing 20 to 22

ounces was used to play it. The game remained anonymous for a year. During the Christmas

holidays in 1892, one of his students, Frank Mahen, came to see him. During the conversation,

he told New Smith that you have invented a unique game, but have you named it? New Smith

replied that he had not thought about it yet, because at the moment my focus is regularly on

making it a game that is loved all over the world. Mahen suggested that the game be renamed

"New Smith Ball" after his name. "With the name you suggest, this game will die on its own,"

Naye Smith said with a laugh. On this, Mahen said, "Why not call this game" basketball "in the

context of peach basketball?" Nye Smith liked the name and said that the game uses basketball

and ball, so "basketball" is a good name. Nye Smith later developed the rules of the game and in

January 1892, Y. The MCA Gymnasium Albany held its first official competition in New York

in which two teams of 9 athletes participated. The match ended 1-0 points. The final shot of the

game was hit from a distance of 25 feet which went straight into the basket and fell.

It was innovated in 1906, and the peach basket was replaced by a metal fence in which

the basket was made of strings, but the bottom of the basket was closed, causing the shooter to

throw the ball into the basket. The ball was needed to continue the match after gaining points by

inserting, which was used to remove the stick, during this process the game had to be stopped

and time out, which was a waste of time. The base was removed from the new basket, now the

ball falls out of space after entering the basket. Men's basketball was first included in the 1936

Summer Olympics in Berlin, although an exhibition match of the series was held in 1904. Most

of the Olympics were dominated by the United States. The final match between the United States

and Russia in 1972 was so controversial that it was played three times. In the final match, Russia
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defeated the United States and became the Olympic champion. Basketball, which was introduced

in the United States in 1892, was introduced to the region after the arrival of American troops in

the subcontinent and soon became popular in Karachi and Lahore. American players formed the

Karachi Amateur Basketball Association and under its auspices basketball competitions began to

be organized. After Karachi and Lahore in 1906, Gordon College became popular in Rawalpindi.

The first All India Basketball Championship was held in 1910 at the YMCA Karachi Basketball

Court which was held regularly every year till 1930. In 1920, it became a regular sport at the

university level.

In 1930, the Punjab Olympic Association included it in the Olympic Games and in 1934;

the sport was first introduced in the Delhi Olympic Games. In 1936, basketball was recognized

by the International Olympic Committee and included in the World Olympic Championships in

Berlin. In February 1952, the Pakistan Amateur Basketball Federation was formed. He joined the

International Basketball Federation in 1953. Currently, 100 basketball associations around the

world, including Pakistan, are members of the International Basketball Federation. The FIBA

Basketball World Cup and the Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament are the major tournaments

in the sport, with national level teams from around the world taking part, while the Professional

National League is organized under the auspices of the American National Basketball

Association. ‫ ۔‬It was recognized as a women's sport by the International Olympic Committee in

1970 and was included in the 1976 Olympic Games. From 1976 to 2016, women's teams have

competed in 11 Olympics, with Russia winning the first two and the United States winning nine

Olympic championships.