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Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one, two or three one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.
Players advance the ball by bouncing it while walking or running (dribbling) or by passing it to a teammate, both of which require considerable skill. On offense, players may use a variety of shots – the layup, the jump shot, or a dunk; on defense, they may steal the ball from a dribbler, intercept passes, or block shots; either offense or defense may collect a rebound, that is, a missed shot that bounces from rim or backboard. It is a violation to lift or drag one's pivot foot without dribbling the ball, to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling. (Full article...)
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The 2020 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 2019–20 season. The playoffs were originally scheduled to begin on April 18. However, the league suspended the season on March 11, 2020, hours after the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization and after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for the virus.
On June 4, the NBA Board of Governors approved a plan to restart the season on July 31 in the NBA Bubble. This proposal was then approved by members of the National Basketball Players Association on June 5. Under this plan, the 22 top teams in the league at the time of the suspension (all the teams who had a mathematical chance at making the playoffs under the 82-game season) played eight additional regular season games to determine playoff seeding, with 16 of those teams playing in a conventional postseason tournament. If the ninth seed within a conference would have finished the regular season within four games of the eighth seed, they would have then competed in a play–in series. The last time a play-in game was played to determine a playoff spot was in 1956. (Full article...)Selected picture
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Basketball court at the corner of Manchester Street and Lichfield Street, Christchurch, New Zealand -
A three-point field goal by Sara Giauro during the FIBA Europe Cup Women Finals, 2005 in Naples, Italy -
Carl English and Zoran Dragić competing in February 2013 -
Navy Midshipmen George O’Garro rounds Army Cadet Steve Stoll in an attempt to score during the Army Navy basketball game in Alumni Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, January 31, 2004 -
LeBron James (USA, in white) attempts a shot against China's Yao Ming at the 2008 Olympics -
A Kenyan college basketball team practicing, 2016 -
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Michael Jordan playing in 1992
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Streetball in Paris, France near the Eiffel Tower, 2005 -
The Laker Girls, an all-female National Basketball Association Cheerleading squad that supports the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team in home matches, performing in 2007 -
Image from the first pool tour of the Euroleague wheelchair basketball competition, 9 March 2012 -
Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard, stands ready to shoot a free throw during a pre-season game against the Golden State Warriors in October 2005 -
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Daniel Clark and Luka Žorić competing in 2013
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- ... that the Indiana Hoosiers' victory in the 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game completed the last undefeated season in NCAA Division I men's college basketball?
- ... that Canadian basketball player Grandy Glaze made his professional debut in the Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional, which he led in rebounding?
- ... that American-Israeli basketball player Bryan Cohen is the only athlete in the history of the Patriot League to win its Defensive Player of Year award three times?
- ... that Anne Patzwald has worked as an occupational therapist at a clinic that employs three other current or former members of the German women's wheelchair basketball national team?
- ... that basketball player Trey Lewis transferred to Louisville with hopes of reaching the NCAA Tournament, but the team declared itself ineligible for the tournament after he joined?
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Arctic Sisterhood women's basketball team in Nome Alaska circa 1908 (from Women's basketball) -
A diagram of the relative positions of basketball officials in "three-person" mechanics. The lead official (L) is normally along the baseline of the court. The trail official (T) takes up a position approximately level with the top of the three-point line. The center official (C) stands across the court near the free-throw line. (from Official (basketball)) -
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Israeli basketball player Yam Madar making a blind pass. (from Basketball moves) -
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Australia women's national basketball team on winning the 2006 FIBA World Championship (from Women's basketball) -
Freshman Women's Basketball Team - 1914 (from Women's basketball) -
A Spalding basketball from 1922 (from History of basketball) -
A map of all NAIA Division I basketball teams. (from College basketball) -
Smith College's class of 1902 women's basketball team. (from Women's basketball) -
University of California-Berkeley women's basketball team, photographed in 1899 (from Women's basketball) -
An illustration of a basketball game that accompanied Naismith's article from The Triangle in 1892 listing his 13 rules. (from History of basketball) -
Map of NAIA Division II basketball teams. (from College basketball) -
A map of all NCAA Division I basketball teams (from College basketball) -
Typewritten first draft of the rules of basketball by Naismith (from Rules of basketball) -
A map of all NCAA Division II basketball teams (from College basketball) -
The home court of the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. (from Basketball court) -
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James Naismith invented basketball in 1891 at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. (from History of basketball) -
NBA officials Monty McCutchen (center), Tom Washington (#49) and Brent Barnaky reviewing a play. (from Official (basketball)) -
Most important terms related to the basketball court (from Basketball court)
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Initial jump at the match for the 3rd place in the FIBA Under-18 Women's Americas Championship Buenos Aires 2022 between Argentina and Brazil. (from Women's basketball)
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The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Timberwolves compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference. The team was founded in 1989. Its majority owner is Glen Taylor, who also owns the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx. The Timberwolves play their home games at Target Center, their home since 1990.
Like most expansion teams, the Timberwolves struggled in their early years, but after the acquisition of Kevin Garnett in the 1995 NBA draft, the team qualified for the playoffs in eight consecutive seasons from 1997 to 2004. Despite losing in the first round in their first seven attempts, the Timberwolves won their first division championship in 2004 and advanced to the Western Conference Finals that same season. Garnett was also named the NBA Most Valuable Player for that season. The team then went into rebuilding mode for more than a decade after missing the postseason in 2005, and trading Garnett to the Boston Celtics in 2007. Garnett returned to the Timberwolves in a February 2015 trade and finished his career there, retiring in the 2016 off-season. The Timberwolves ended a 14-year playoff drought when they returned to the postseason in 2018. (Full article...)Selected list articles
- All-NBA Team
- List of Olympic medalists in basketball
- List of men's national basketball teams
- List of women's national basketball teams
- List of basketball leagues
- List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
- List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
- 50 Greatest Players in NBA History
- NBA Most Valuable Player Award
- NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award
- NBA Most Improved Player Award
- NBA Coach of the Year Award
- NBA Executive of the Year Award
- NBA Lifetime Achievement Award
- List of NBA All-Stars
- List of National Basketball Association awards
- Glossary of basketball terms
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