Basketball is a team sport that can be played on both indoor and outdoor courts, in which two sets of five players each try to score points, also called baskets or doubles and/or triples, by introducing a ball into a hoop placed 3.05 meters above the ground from which a net hang, which gives it the appearance of a basket or basket.
James Naismith, a professor at the University of Illinois (Massachusetts) was the inventor of this sport. He has been given a task in 1891, to create an indoor sport, because the winter months in that area made it difficult to do any outdoor activity.
It is played with two teams of five people, for 4 periods or quarters of 10 minutes (FIBA) 4 or 12 (NBA) minutes each. At halftime normally there is a break of 15 to 20 minutes.
There is also a modality, fundamentally for the disabled, in which it is played in a wheelchair (wheelchair basketball), practically with the same rules as regular basketball.
The game was liked and was soon established in the United States. Mexico is the first country where it was first introduced because it’s the closest to the United States. In Europe, it came from the YMCA branches in Paris, France. But it wasn’t until the First World War that it gained momentum, mostly thanks to American soldiers playing in their spare time.
Basketball currently is one of the sports with the biggest participants and regular competitions in different countries around the world. NBA in the United States is considered the most prestigious competition for club basketball, as the Euroleague in Europe.