Essay on basketball match you have witnessed
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Basketball is a team sport which has immense popularity and played with the help of a ball that is shot into a basket positioned horizontally.
The objective to shoot the ball is scores which are gained by following certain rules of the game.
The game is played by 2 teams constituting 5 players each who play on a marked rectangular floor with baskets on both ends.
The game of basketball was invented by James Naismith in 1891. James Naismith was a physical education teacher at McGill University and later at Springfield College (then Y.M.CA.) at Springfield, Massachusetts.
Under the guidance of physical education specialist, Luther Halsey Gulick, he invented basketball as an indoor sport.
Basketball was originally played with soccer ball and Naismith used a peach basket (with non-hollow bottom) nailed at a height of 10 feet above ground on an elevated track.
Considering the manual removal of ball from the basket a drawback, the bottom was removed to take the shape of modern day baskets. Dribbling was not a part of the game originally and evolved eventually until 1950 with balls gaining better shape from manufacturing.
Also the orange ball evolved from the brown ball that was used at the beginning to be more visible. By the year 1906, the peach baskets were replaced by metal hoops with backboard.