Basketball

Basketball
Basketball, basketball or basketball (English basketball, basketball, 'basket', and ball, 'ball'), or just basketball is a team sport that can develop both indoor and outdoor, in which two sets of five players each try to score points, also called baskets or double and / or triple introducing a ball in a hoop placed 3.05 meters above the ground from which hangs a network, which gives it a basket or basket. National federations of Spanish speaking countries of the Caribbean and Central America, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Spain and Equatorial Guinea, call it basketball. National federations of the other South American Spanish speaking countries call it basketball. The Pan-American Association (FIBA) used the name Spanish basketball, while the South American Association (ABASU) uses basketball denomination. It is also called basketball (no tilde) or basketball, especially in Argentina and Peru, for Castilianization its original English name: basketball. It was invented by James Naismith, a physical education teacher in December 1891 at the YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. It is played with two teams of five, for 4 periods or quarters of 10 (FIBA) or 12 4 (NBA) minutes each. At the end of the second quarter, a break is done, usually 15 to 20 minutes according to the proper rules of the championship to which the party belongs. There is also a mode mainly for disabled people, in which he plays wheelchair (wheelchair basketball), virtually the same rules as regular basketball.