These are the rules on how to play basketball just like the pros!

1 – Get a ball and a hoop.

All you need to play basketball is a ball of the appropriate size and a net that it fits through, set at a challenging-enough height. The specific requirements for regulation basketball are included below, but the history of basketball is the history of making do with what you have. The first basketball hoop was a peach crate nailed to a railing. Use empty boxes, soccer balls, or whatever is available if you don’t have access to a hoop.  Regulation hoops are ten feet high and 18 inches (45.7 cm) in diameter, typically backed with a plexiglass board off which players may bounce shots. While full-court basketball is played with two hoops, one at each end of a 94-foot long court, it’s only necessary to have one hoop to play a half-court pick-up game, or to shoot around with friends.

2  Break into two teams.

 For a full-court game, basketball is played by two teams of five players each. While it’s also common to play half-court ball with teams of three, however many people you’ve got playing, it’s important to have an even number of players on each team. Alternate basketball games for uneven numbers are included in the last section.

  

3 – Score points by shooting the ball through the hoop.

In basketball, an offensive player can score between one and three points with a shot, depending on where the shot is taken on the floor.  Extending in a half-circle, about 20 feet (6.1 m) from the hoop on most courts, should be the “three-point line,” beyond which shots are worth an extra point. Inside that arc, all shots are worth two points.  Foul shots are worth one point each and are taken from the free-throw line, which is 15 feet (4.6 m) from the hoop. Players will be awarded between one and three free throws if they are fouled during a shooting attempt, or fouled after the other team has accumulated too many fouls.
Move the ball by dribbling or passing. When you have the ball, you have to either be stationary, with one foot planted on the floor to pivot from, or you have to be dribbling the ball, bouncing it up and down on the floor. When you’re planted, you can pivot around on one foot, but that foot has to remain planted if you’re not dribbling. You can still jump to shoot or pass, but when you come back down you need to have gotten rid of the ball.

 

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