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 into 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, Guatemala , and Equatorial Guinea , call it basketball. National federations of other countries in South / South Americans of Spanish-speaking America call it básquetbol.2 The Pan-American Association (FIBA ) the name used in Spanish basketball, while the South American Association ( ABASU ) uses basketball denomination. Also it called basquetbolNota 1 to basketball , especially in Guatemala , Argentina and Peru , for Castilianization its original name in English: basketball .
It was invented by James Naismith , a Canadian physical education teacher in December 1891 at the YMCA in Springfield , Massachusetts , United States. It is played with two teams of five people , during 4 periods or quarters of 10 ( FIBA) , 4 or 12 minutes each. (NBA ) At the end of the second quarter, a break, usually 15 to 20 minutes is done according to the regulations championship own party to which he belongs.
There is also a form , primarily for the disabled , which is played in a wheelchair ( wheelchair basketball ) , virtually the same rules as regular basketball.
Basketball