My favorite sport is

basketball
Prepared by Anastasia Popova
 Basketball.
• Basketball is a popular team sport.
The goal of the game is to throw
the ball into the opponent's basket
more times than his team.
 Ancient Maya Basketball
• The game, which has a
similarity to modern
basketball, was still among
the Mayans. Two teams
threw a rubber ball into a
ring of stone that was carved
into the wall. The ancient
Maya, unlike modern
basketball players, were
forbidden to throw the ball
with their hands.
 Modern basketball 🏀
• Modern basketball has an official birthday. This
sport appeared on January 15, 1892. It was
then that a teacher from a Springfield college,
James Nesmith, published the rules of the
game in a local newspaper.
 Number of rules
• In the first set of rules of the game, which
was compiled by James Nesmith, there were
only 13 of them, and today there are over
200 rules in basketball.
The tallest player in NBA.
• Manute Bol, the
tallest player in NBA
history (2m 31cm), is
also the only NBA
player to kill a lion
with a spear and pay
80 cows for his wife.
The lowest player in NBA.
• Maxi Bogz, the
lowest NBA player,
has blocked 39
shots throughout
his career,
including one
Patrick Ewing (2m
13cm).
 The lowest and the tallest.

• In 1987-1988, the
lowest (1 m. 60 cm)
and the highest (2
m. 31 cm) NBA
players played
simultaneously.
 “Double five”.
• It is possible to score a “double five” in
basketball.
• And while this never
happened in the
NBA, it happened
twice during a
women's team's high
school game.
 3-point shot.
• Karim Abdul-Jabbar
has made only one 3-
point shot in his entire
20-year career.

• Shaquille O'Neal
has made one 3-
point shot in his
entire NBA
career.