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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the sport. For the ball used in the sport, see <a href="Basketball_(ball)" title="Basketball (ball)">Basketball (ball)</a>. For other uses, see <a href="Basketball_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Basketball (disambiguation)">Basketball (disambiguation)</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn" style="padding-bottom:0.2em;">Basketball</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="Stephen_Curry" title="Stephen Curry">Stephen Curry</a> attempting to score a <a href="Field_goal_(basketball)" title="Field goal (basketball)">field goal</a> at the <a href="2022_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="2022 NBA All-Star Game">2022 NBA All-Star Game</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Highest <a href="Sports_governing_body" title="Sports governing body">governing body</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">First played</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">December 21, 1891<span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1891-12-21</span>)</span>. <a href="Springfield%2C_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield, Massachusetts</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#eee;">Characteristics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Contact</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="Contact_sport#Limited-contact" title="Contact sport">Limited</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Team members</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">5 per side:<br><a href="Point_guard" title="Point guard">point guard</a><br><a href="Shooting_guard" title="Shooting guard">shooting guard</a><br><a href="Small_forward" title="Small forward">small forward</a><br><a href="Power_forward_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Power forward (basketball)">power forward</a><br><a href="Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">center</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;"><a href="Mixed-sex_sports" title="Mixed-sex sports">Mixed-sex</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Yes, separate competitions</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Type</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Indoor/Outdoor</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Equipment</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="Basketball_(ball)" title="Basketball (ball)">Basketball</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Venue</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Indoor court (mainly) or outdoor court (<a href="Streetball" title="Streetball">Streetball</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Glossary</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;"><a href="Glossary_of_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Glossary of basketball">Glossary of basketball</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background:#eee;">Presence</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;">Country or region</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Worldwide</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;"><a href="Olympic_Games" title="Olympic Games">Olympic</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Yes, demonstrated in the 1904 and 1924 Summer Olympics<br>Part of the Summer Olympic program since 1936</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.3em; padding-right:1.0em;"><a href="Paralympic_Games" title="Paralympic Games">Paralympic</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.3em;">Yes</td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Basketball</b> is a <a href="Team_sport" title="Team sport">team sport</a> in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular <a href="Basketball_court" title="Basketball court">court</a>, compete with the primary objective of <a href="#Shooting">shooting</a> a <a href="Basketball_(ball)" title="Basketball (ball)">basketball</a> (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's <a href="Basket_(basketball)" title="Basket (basketball)">hoop</a> (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.05 m) high to a <a href="Backboard_(basketball)" title="Backboard (basketball)">backboard</a> at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A <a href="Field_goal_(basketball)" title="Field goal (basketball)">field goal</a> is worth two points, unless made from behind the <a href="3_point_line" class="mw-redirect" title="3 point line">three-point line</a>, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a <a href="Technical_foul" title="Technical foul">technical foul</a> is given one, two or three one-point <a href="Free_throw" title="Free throw">free throws</a>. 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 (<a href="Overtime_(sports)" title="Overtime (sports)">overtime</a>) is mandated. However, if the additional period still results in a tied score, yet another additional period is mandated. This goes on until the score is not tied anymore.

</p><p>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 <a href="Layup" title="Layup">layup</a>, the <a href="Jump_shot_(basketball)" title="Jump shot (basketball)">jump shot</a>, or a <a href="Slam_dunk" title="Slam dunk">dunk</a>; on defense, they may <a href="Steal_(basketball)" title="Steal (basketball)">steal</a> the ball from a dribbler, intercept passes, or <a href="Block_(basketball)" title="Block (basketball)">block</a> shots; either offense or defense may collect a <a href="Rebound_(basketball)" title="Rebound (basketball)">rebound</a>, that is, a missed shot that bounces from rim or backboard. It is a violation to <a href="Traveling_(basketball)" title="Traveling (basketball)">lift or drag one's pivot foot without dribbling the ball</a>, to <a href="Carrying_(basketball)" title="Carrying (basketball)">carry</a> it, or to <a href="Double_dribble" title="Double dribble">hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling</a>.

</p><p>The five players on each side fall into five <a href="Basketball_positions" title="Basketball positions">playing positions</a>. The tallest player is usually the <a href="Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">center</a>, the second-tallest and strongest is the <a href="Power_forward" title="Power forward">power forward</a>, a slightly shorter but more agile player is the <a href="Small_forward" title="Small forward">small forward</a>, and the shortest players or the best ball handlers are the <a href="Shooting_guard" title="Shooting guard">shooting guard</a> and the <a href="Point_guard" title="Point guard">point guard</a>, who implement the coach's game plan by managing the execution of offensive and defensive plays (player positioning). Informally, players may play three-on-three, two-on-two, and one-on-one.

</p><p>Invented in 1891 by Canadian-American gym teacher <a href="James_Naismith" title="James Naismith">James Naismith</a> in <a href="Springfield%2C_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield, Massachusetts</a>, in the United States, basketball has evolved to become one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">National Basketball Association</a> (NBA) is the most significant <a href="Professional_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Professional basketball">professional basketball</a> league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and level of competition<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (drawing most of its talent from U.S. <a href="College_basketball" title="College basketball">college basketball</a>). Outside North America, the top clubs from national leagues qualify to continental championships such as the <a href="EuroLeague" title="EuroLeague">EuroLeague</a> and the <a href="Basketball_Champions_League_Americas" title="Basketball Champions League Americas">Basketball Champions League Americas</a>. The <a href="FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Basketball World Cup">FIBA Basketball World Cup</a> and <a href="Basketball_at_the_Summer_Olympics#Men's_tournament" title="Basketball at the Summer Olympics">Men's Olympic Basketball Tournament</a> are the major international events of the sport and attract top national teams from around the world. Each continent hosts regional competitions for national teams, like <a href="EuroBasket" title="EuroBasket">EuroBasket</a> and <a href="FIBA_AmeriCup" title="FIBA AmeriCup">FIBA AmeriCup</a>.

</p><p>The <a href="FIBA_Women's_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup">FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup</a> and <a href="Basketball_at_the_Summer_Olympics#Women's_tournament" title="Basketball at the Summer Olympics">women's Olympic basketball tournament</a> feature top national teams from continental championships. The main North American league is the <a href="WNBA" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA">WNBA</a> (<a href="NCAA_Women's_Division_I_Basketball_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship">NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship</a> is also popular), whereas the strongest European clubs participate in the <a href="EuroLeague_Women" title="EuroLeague Women">EuroLeague Women</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="History_of_basketball" title="History of basketball">History of basketball</a></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history">Early history</h3></div>

<p>A game similar to basketball is mentioned in a 1591 book published in Frankfurt am Main that reports on the lifestyles and customs of coastal North American residents, <span title="German-language text"><i lang="de">Wahrhafftige Abconterfaytung der Wilden</i></span> (German; translates as <i>Truthful Depictions of the Savages</i>:<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "Among other things, a game of skill is described in which balls must be thrown against a target woven from twigs, mounted high on a pole. There's a small reward for the player if the target is being hit."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Creation">Creation</h3></div>

<p>In December 1891, <a href="James_Naismith" title="James Naismith">James Naismith</a>, a Canadian-American professor of <a href="Physical_education" title="Physical education">physical education</a> and instructor at the International <a href="YMCA" title="YMCA">Young Men's Christian Association</a> Training School (now <a href="Springfield_College" title="Springfield College">Springfield College</a>) in <a href="Springfield%2C_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield, Massachusetts</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long <a href="New_England" title="New England">New England</a> winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in <a href="Gymnasiums" class="mw-redirect" title="Gymnasiums">gymnasiums</a>, he invented a new game in which players would pass a ball to teammates and try to score points by tossing the ball into a basket mounted on a wall.

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<p>Naismith wrote the basic <a href="Rules_of_basketball" title="Rules of basketball">rules</a> and nailed a <a href="Peach" title="Peach">peach</a> basket onto an elevated track. Naismith initially set up the peach basket with its bottom intact, which meant that the ball had to be retrieved manually after each "basket" or point scored. This quickly proved tedious, so Naismith removed the bottom of the basket to allow the balls to be poked out with a long <a href="Dowel" title="Dowel">dowel</a> after each scored basket.

</p><p>Shortly after, <a href="Senda_Berenson_Abbott" title="Senda Berenson Abbott">Senda Berenson</a>, instructor of physical culture at the nearby <a href="Smith_College" title="Smith College">Smith College</a>, went to Naismith to learn more about the game.<sup id="cite_ref-Pioneers_in_Physical_Education_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pioneers_in_Physical_Education-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fascinated by the new sport and the values it could teach, she started to organize games with her pupils, following adjusted rules.<sup id="cite_ref-Senda_Berenson_Papers_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Senda_Berenson_Papers-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first official women's interinstitutional game was played barely 11 months later, between the <a href="University_of_California%2C_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California</a> and Miss Head's School.<sup id="cite_ref-Jenkins_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jenkins-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1899, a committee was established at the Conference of Physical Training in Springfield to draw up general rules for women's basketball. Thus, the sport quickly spread throughout America's schools, colleges and universities with uniform rules for both sexes.<sup id="cite_ref-Berenson1901_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berenson1901-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>Basketball was originally played with a <a href="Ball_(association_football)" title="Ball (association football)">soccer ball</a>. These round balls from "<a href="Association_football" title="Association football">association football</a>" were made, at the time, with a set of laces to close off the hole needed for inserting the inflatable bladder after the other sewn-together segments of the ball's cover had been flipped outside-in.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be unpredictable.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith (whereas in <a href="American_football" title="American football">American football</a>, the lace construction proved to be advantageous for gripping and remains to this day). The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that <a href="Paul_D._%22Tony%22_Hinkle" class="mw-redirect" title="Paul D. "Tony" Hinkle">Tony Hinkle</a>, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in common use. Dribbling was not part of the original game except for the "bounce pass" to teammates. Passing the ball was the primary means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the asymmetric shape of early balls. Dribbling was common by 1896, with a rule against the double dribble by 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The peach baskets were used until 1906 when they were finally replaced by metal hoops with backboards. A further change was soon made, so the ball merely passed through. Whenever a person got the ball in the basket, their team would gain a point. Whichever team got the most points won the game.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The baskets were originally nailed to the mezzanine balcony of the playing court, but this proved impractical when spectators in the balcony began to interfere with shots. The backboard was introduced to prevent this interference; it had the additional effect of allowing rebound shots.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naismith's handwritten diaries, discovered by his granddaughter in early 2006, indicate that he was nervous about the new game he had invented, which incorporated rules from a children's game called <a href="Duck_on_a_rock" title="Duck on a rock">duck on a rock</a>, as many had failed before it.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Frank Mahan, one of the players from the original first game, approached Naismith after the Christmas break, in early 1892, asking him what he intended to call his new game. Naismith replied that he had not thought of it because he had been focused on just getting the <a href="Game" title="Game">game</a> started. Mahan suggested that it be called "Naismith ball", at which he laughed, saying that a name like that would kill any game. Mahan then said, "Why not call it basketball?" Naismith replied, "We have a basket and a ball, and it seems to me that would be a good name for it."<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first official game was played in the <a href="Young_Men's_Christian_Association_Building_(Albany%2C_New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Young Men's Christian Association Building (Albany, New York)">YMCA gymnasium in Albany</a>, New York, on January 20, 1892, with nine players. The game ended at 1–0; the shot was made from 25 feet (7.6 m), on a court just half the size of a present-day <a href="Streetball" title="Streetball">Streetball</a> or <a href="National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">National Basketball Association</a> (NBA) court.

</p><p>At the time, <a href="Association_football" title="Association football">soccer</a> was being played with 10 to a team (which was increased to 11). When winter weather got too icy to play soccer, teams were taken indoors, and it was convenient to have them split in half and play basketball with five on each side. By 1897–98, teams of five became standard.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="College_basketball">College basketball</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="College_basketball" title="College basketball">College basketball</a></div>

<p>Basketball's early adherents were dispatched to YMCAs throughout the United States, and it quickly spread through the United States and Canada. By 1895, it was well established at several women's high schools. While YMCA was responsible for initially developing and spreading the game, within a decade it discouraged the new sport, as rough play and rowdy crowds began to detract from YMCA's primary mission. However, other amateur sports clubs, colleges, and professional clubs quickly filled the void. In the years before <a href="World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, the <a href="Amateur_Athletic_Union" title="Amateur Athletic Union">Amateur Athletic Union</a> and the <a href="Intercollegiate_Athletic_Association_of_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States">Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States</a> (forerunner of the <a href="National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">NCAA</a>) vied for control over the rules for the game. The first pro league, the National Basketball League, was formed in 1898 to protect players from exploitation and to promote a less rough game. This league only lasted five years.

</p><p>James Naismith was instrumental in establishing <a href="College_basketball" title="College basketball">college basketball</a>. His colleague C. O. Beamis fielded the first college basketball team just a year after the Springfield YMCA game at the suburban Pittsburgh <a href="Geneva_College" title="Geneva College">Geneva College</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Naismith himself later coached at the <a href="Kansas_Jayhawks_men's_basketball" title="Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball">University of Kansas</a> for six years, before handing the reins to renowned coach <a href="Phog_Allen" title="Phog Allen">Forrest "Phog" Allen</a>. Naismith's disciple <a href="Amos_Alonzo_Stagg" title="Amos Alonzo Stagg">Amos Alonzo Stagg</a> brought basketball to the <a href="University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>, while <a href="Adolph_Rupp" title="Adolph Rupp">Adolph Rupp</a>, a student of Naismith's at Kansas, enjoyed great success as coach at the <a href="Kentucky_Wildcats_men's_basketball" title="Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball">University of Kentucky</a>. On February 9, 1895, the first intercollegiate 5-on-5 game was played at <a href="Hamline_University" title="Hamline University">Hamline University</a> between Hamline and the School of Agriculture, which was affiliated with the <a href="University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The School of Agriculture won in a 9–3 game.

</p><p>In 1901, colleges, including the <a href="University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>, <a href="Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a>, <a href="Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a>, <a href="Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a>, the <a href="University_of_Minnesota" title="University of Minnesota">University of Minnesota</a>, the <a href="United_States_Naval_Academy" title="United States Naval Academy">U.S. Naval Academy</a>, the <a href="University_of_Colorado_Boulder" title="University of Colorado Boulder">University of Colorado</a> and <a href="Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a> began sponsoring men's games. In 1905, frequent injuries on the <a href="College_football" title="College football">football</a> field prompted President <a href="Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> to suggest that colleges form a governing body, resulting in the creation of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (IAAUS). In 1910, that body changed its name to the <a href="National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">National Collegiate Athletic Association</a> (NCAA). The first Canadian interuniversity basketball game was played at <a href="YMCA" title="YMCA">YMCA</a> in <a href="Kingston%2C_Ontario" title="Kingston, Ontario">Kingston</a>, Ontario on February 6, 1904, when <a href="McGill_University" title="McGill University">McGill University</a> – Naismith's alma mater – visited <a href="Queen's_University_at_Kingston" title="Queen's University at Kingston">Queen's University</a>. McGill won 9–7 in overtime; the score was 7–7 at the end of regulation play, and a ten-minute overtime period settled the outcome. A good turnout of spectators watched the game.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The first men's national championship tournament, the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball tournament, which still exists as the <a href="National_Association_of_Intercollegiate_Athletics" title="National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics">National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics</a> (NAIA) <a href="NAIA_national_men's_basketball_championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA national men's basketball championship">tournament</a>, was organized in 1937. The first national championship for NCAA teams, the <a href="National_Invitation_Tournament" title="National Invitation Tournament">National Invitation Tournament</a> (NIT) in New York, was organized in 1938; the <a href="NCAA_Division_I_men's_basketball_tournament" title="NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament">NCAA national tournament</a> began one year later. College basketball was rocked by gambling scandals from 1948 to <a href="CCNY_point_shaving_scandal" class="mw-redirect" title="CCNY point shaving scandal">1951</a>, when dozens of players from top teams were implicated in <a href="Match_fixing" title="Match fixing">game-fixing</a> and <a href="Point_shaving" title="Point shaving">point shaving</a>. Partially spurred by an association with cheating, the NIT lost support to the NCAA tournament.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="High_school_basketball">High school basketball</h3></div>

<p>Before widespread <a href="School_district" title="School district">school district</a> consolidation, most American high schools were far smaller than their present-day counterparts. During the first decades of the 20th century, basketball quickly became the ideal interscholastic sport due to its modest equipment and personnel requirements. In the days before widespread television coverage of professional and college sports, the popularity of <a href="High_school_basketball" title="High school basketball">high school basketball</a> was unrivaled in many parts of America. Perhaps the most legendary of high school teams was Indiana's <a href="Franklin_Wonder_Five" title="Franklin Wonder Five">Franklin Wonder Five</a>, which took the nation by storm during the 1920s, dominating Indiana basketball and earning national recognition.

</p><p>Today virtually every high school in the United States fields a basketball team in <a href="Varsity_team" title="Varsity team">varsity</a> competition.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Basketball's popularity remains high, both in rural areas where they carry the identification of the entire community, as well as at some larger schools known for their basketball teams where many players go on to participate at higher levels of competition after graduation. In the 2016–17 season, 980,673 boys and girls represented their schools in interscholastic basketball competition, according to the <a href="National_Federation_of_State_High_School_Associations" title="National Federation of State High School Associations">National Federation of State High School Associations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The states of <a href="Illinois" title="Illinois">Illinois</a>, <a href="Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a> and <a href="Kentucky" title="Kentucky">Kentucky</a> are particularly well known for their residents' devotion to high school basketball, commonly called <a href="Hoosier_Hysteria" class="mw-redirect" title="Hoosier Hysteria">Hoosier Hysteria</a> in Indiana; the critically acclaimed film <i><a href="Hoosiers_(film)" title="Hoosiers (film)">Hoosiers</a></i> shows high school basketball's depth of meaning to these communities.

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<p>⁣There is currently no tournament to determine a national high school champion. The most serious effort was the National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament at the <a href="University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> from 1917 to 1930. The event was organized by <a href="Amos_Alonzo_Stagg" title="Amos Alonzo Stagg">Amos Alonzo Stagg</a> and sent invitations to state champion teams. The tournament started out as a mostly Midwest affair but grew. In 1929 it had 29 state champions. Faced with opposition from the <a href="National_Federation_of_State_High_School_Associations" title="National Federation of State High School Associations">National Federation of State High School Associations</a> and <a href="North_Central_Association_of_Colleges_and_Schools" title="North Central Association of Colleges and Schools">North Central Association of Colleges and Schools</a> that bore a threat of the schools losing their accreditation the last tournament was in 1930. The organizations said they were concerned that the tournament was being used to recruit professional players from the prep ranks.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tournament did not invite minority schools or private/parochial schools.

</p><p>The National Catholic Interscholastic Basketball Tournament ran from 1924 to 1941 at <a href="Loyola_University_Chicago" title="Loyola University Chicago">Loyola University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The National Catholic Invitational Basketball Tournament from 1954 to 1978 played at a series of venues, including <a href="Catholic_University_of_America" title="Catholic University of America">Catholic University</a>, <a href="Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown</a> and <a href="George_Mason_University" title="George Mason University">George Mason</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The National Interscholastic Basketball Tournament for Black High Schools was held from 1929 to 1942 at <a href="Hampton_University" title="Hampton University">Hampton Institute</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The National Invitational Interscholastic Basketball Tournament was held from 1941 to 1967 starting out at <a href="Tuskegee_University" title="Tuskegee University">Tuskegee Institute</a>. Following a pause during <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> it resumed at <a href="Tennessee_State_University" title="Tennessee State University">Tennessee State College</a> in Nashville. The basis for the champion dwindled after 1954 when <i><a href="Brown_v._Board_of_Education" title="Brown v. Board of Education">Brown v. Board of Education</a></i> began an integration of schools. The last tournaments were held at <a href="Alabama_State_University" title="Alabama State University">Alabama State College</a> from 1964 to 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Professional_basketball">Professional basketball</h3></div>

<p>Teams abounded throughout the 1920s. There were hundreds of men's <a href="Professional_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Professional basketball">professional basketball</a> teams in towns and cities all over the United States, and little organization of the professional game. Players jumped from team to team and teams played in armories and smoky dance halls. Leagues came and went. <a href="Barnstorm_(sports)" class="mw-redirect" title="Barnstorm (sports)">Barnstorming</a> squads such as the <a href="Original_Celtics" title="Original Celtics">Original Celtics</a> and two all-African American teams, the <a href="New_York_Renaissance" title="New York Renaissance">New York Renaissance Five</a> ("Rens") and the (still existing) <a href="Harlem_Globetrotters" title="Harlem Globetrotters">Harlem Globetrotters</a> played up to two hundred games a year on their national tours.

</p><p>In 1946, the <a href="Basketball_Association_of_America" title="Basketball Association of America">Basketball Association of America</a> (BAA) was formed. The first game was played in <a href="Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>, Ontario, Canada between the <a href="Toronto_Huskies" title="Toronto Huskies">Toronto Huskies</a> and <a href="New_York_Knicks" title="New York Knicks">New York Knickerbockers</a> on November 1, 1946. Three seasons later, in 1949, the BAA merged with the <a href="National_Basketball_League_(United_States)" title="National Basketball League (United States)">National Basketball League</a> (NBL) to form the <a href="National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">National Basketball Association</a> (NBA). By the 1950s, basketball had become a major college sport, thus paving the way for a growth of interest in professional basketball. In 1959, a <a href="Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">basketball hall of fame</a> was founded in <a href="Springfield%2C_Massachusetts" title="Springfield, Massachusetts">Springfield</a>, Massachusetts, site of the first game. Its rosters include the names of great players, coaches, referees and people who have contributed significantly to the development of the game. The hall of fame has people who have accomplished many goals in their career in basketball. An upstart organization, the <a href="American_Basketball_Association" title="American Basketball Association">American Basketball Association</a>, emerged in 1967 and briefly threatened the NBA's dominance until the <a href="ABA-NBA_merger" class="mw-redirect" title="ABA-NBA merger">ABA-NBA merger</a> in 1976. Today the NBA is the top professional basketball league in the world in terms of popularity, salaries, talent, and level of competition.

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<p>The NBA has featured many famous players, including <a href="George_Mikan" title="George Mikan">George Mikan</a>, the first dominating "big man"; ball-handling wizard <a href="Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">Bob Cousy</a> and defensive genius <a href="Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell">Bill Russell</a> of the <a href="Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a>; charismatic center <a href="Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Wilt Chamberlain</a>, who originally played for the barnstorming <a href="Harlem_Globetrotters" title="Harlem Globetrotters">Harlem Globetrotters</a>; all-around stars <a href="Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Oscar Robertson</a> and <a href="Jerry_West" title="Jerry West">Jerry West</a>; more recent big men <a href="Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar" title="Kareem Abdul-Jabbar">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar</a>, <a href="Shaquille_O'Neal" title="Shaquille O'Neal">Shaquille O'Neal</a>, <a href="Hakeem_Olajuwon" title="Hakeem Olajuwon">Hakeem Olajuwon</a> and <a href="Karl_Malone" title="Karl Malone">Karl Malone</a>; playmakers <a href="John_Stockton" title="John Stockton">John Stockton</a>, <a href="Isiah_Thomas" title="Isiah Thomas">Isiah Thomas</a> and <a href="Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Steve Nash</a>; crowd-pleasing forwards <a href="Julius_Erving" title="Julius Erving">Julius Erving</a> and <a href="Charles_Barkley" title="Charles Barkley">Charles Barkley</a>; European stars <a href="Dirk_Nowitzki" title="Dirk Nowitzki">Dirk Nowitzki</a>, <a href="Pau_Gasol" title="Pau Gasol">Pau Gasol</a>, <a href="Nikola_Joki%C4%87" title="Nikola Jokić">Nikola Jokić</a> and <a href="Tony_Parker" title="Tony Parker">Tony Parker</a>; Latin American stars <a href="Manu_Ginobili" class="mw-redirect" title="Manu Ginobili">Manu Ginobili</a>, more recent superstars, <a href="Allen_Iverson" title="Allen Iverson">Allen Iverson</a>, <a href="Kobe_Bryant" title="Kobe Bryant">Kobe Bryant</a>, <a href="Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Tim Duncan</a>, <a href="LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">LeBron James</a>, <a href="Stephen_Curry" title="Stephen Curry">Stephen Curry</a>, <a href="Giannis_Antetokounmpo" title="Giannis Antetokounmpo">Giannis Antetokounmpo</a>, etc.; and the three players who many credit with ushering the professional game to its highest level of popularity during the 1980s and 1990s: <a href="Larry_Bird" title="Larry Bird">Larry Bird</a>, <a href="Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">Earvin "Magic" Johnson</a>, and <a href="Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Michael Jordan</a>.

</p><p>In 2001, the NBA formed a developmental league, the <a href="National_Basketball_Development_League" class="mw-redirect" title="National Basketball Development League">National Basketball Development League</a> (later known as the NBA D-League and then the <a href="NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a> after a branding deal with <a href="Gatorade" title="Gatorade">Gatorade</a>). As of the 2023–24 season, the G League has 31 teams.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International_basketball">International basketball</h3></div>

<p><a href="FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a> (International Basketball Federation) was formed in 1932 by eight founding nations: <a href="Argentina" title="Argentina">Argentina</a>, <a href="Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a>, <a href="Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a>, <a href="Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, <a href="Latvia" title="Latvia">Latvia</a>, <a href="Portugal" title="Portugal">Portugal</a>, <a href="Romania" title="Romania">Romania</a> and <a href="Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>. At this time, the organization only oversaw amateur players. Its acronym, derived from the French <i>Fédération Internationale de Basket-ball Amateur</i>, was thus "FIBA". Men's basketball was first <a href="Basketball_at_the_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the Summer Olympics">included</a> at the Berlin <a href="1936_Summer_Olympics" title="1936 Summer Olympics">1936 Summer Olympics</a>, although a demonstration tournament was held in 1904. The United States defeated Canada in the first final, played outdoors. This competition has usually been dominated by the United States, whose team has won all but three titles. The first of these came in a controversial final game in <a href="Munich" title="Munich">Munich</a> in <a href="Basketball_at_the_1972_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 1972 Summer Olympics">1972</a> against the Soviet Union, in which the ending of the game was replayed three times until the Soviet Union finally came out on top.<sup id="cite_ref-Bloomberg_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloomberg-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1950 the first FIBA World Championship for men, now known as the <a href="FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Basketball World Cup">FIBA Basketball World Cup</a>, was held in Argentina. Three years later, the first FIBA World Championship for women, now known as the <a href="FIBA_Women's_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup">FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup</a>, was held in Chile. Women's basketball was added to the Olympics in 1976, which were held in <a href="Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>, Quebec, Canada with teams such as the <a href="Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>, <a href="Brazil_women's_national_basketball_team" title="Brazil women's national basketball team">Brazil</a> and <a href="Australia_women's_national_basketball_team" title="Australia women's national basketball team">Australia</a> rivaling the <a href="United_States_women's_national_basketball_team" title="United States women's national basketball team">American</a> squads.

</p><p>In 1989, <a href="FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a> allowed professional NBA players to participate in the Olympics for the first time. Prior to the <a href="1992_Summer_Olympics" title="1992 Summer Olympics">1992 Summer Olympics</a>, only European and South American teams were allowed to field professionals in the Olympics. The United States' dominance continued with the introduction of the original <a href="1992_United_States_men's_Olympic_basketball_team" title="1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team">Dream Team</a>. In the <a href="2004_Summer_Olympics" title="2004 Summer Olympics">2004 Athens Olympics</a>, the United States suffered its first Olympic loss while using professional players, falling to <a href="Puerto_Rico_national_basketball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Puerto Rico national basketball team">Puerto Rico</a> (in a 19-point loss) and <a href="Lithuania_men's_national_basketball_team" title="Lithuania men's national basketball team">Lithuania</a> in group games, and being eliminated in the semifinals by <a href="Argentina_national_basketball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Argentina national basketball team">Argentina</a>. It eventually won the bronze medal defeating Lithuania, finishing behind Argentina and <a href="Italy_national_basketball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Italy national basketball team">Italy</a>. The <a href="2008_United_States_men's_Olympic_basketball_team" title="2008 United States men's Olympic basketball team">Redeem Team</a>, won gold at the <a href="Basketball_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 2008 Summer Olympics">2008 Olympics</a>, and the B-Team, won gold at the <a href="2010_FIBA_World_Championship" title="2010 FIBA World Championship">2010 FIBA World Championship</a> in Turkey despite featuring no players from the 2008 squad. The United States continued its dominance as they won gold at the <a href="Basketball_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics">2012 Olympics</a>, <a href="2014_FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup" title="2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup">2014 FIBA World Cup</a> and the <a href="Basketball_at_the_2016_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 2016 Summer Olympics">2016 Olympics</a>.

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<p>Worldwide, basketball tournaments are held for boys and girls of all age levels. The global popularity of the sport is reflected in the nationalities represented in the NBA. Players from all six inhabited continents currently play in the NBA. Top international players began coming into the NBA in the mid-1990s, including Croatians <a href="Dra%C5%BEen_Petrovi%C4%87" title="Dražen Petrović">Dražen Petrović</a> and <a href="Toni_Kuko%C4%8D" title="Toni Kukoč">Toni Kukoč</a>, Serbian <a href="Vlade_Divac" title="Vlade Divac">Vlade Divac</a>, Lithuanians <a href="Arvydas_Sabonis" title="Arvydas Sabonis">Arvydas Sabonis</a> and <a href="%C5%A0ar%C5%ABnas_Mar%C4%8Diulionis" title="Šarūnas Marčiulionis">Šarūnas Marčiulionis</a>, Dutchman <a href="Rik_Smits" title="Rik Smits">Rik Smits</a> and German <a href="Detlef_Schrempf" title="Detlef Schrempf">Detlef Schrempf</a>.

</p><p>In the Philippines, the <a href="Philippine_Basketball_Association" title="Philippine Basketball Association">Philippine Basketball Association</a>'s first game was played on April 9, 1975, at the <a href="Araneta_Coliseum" title="Araneta Coliseum">Araneta Coliseum</a> in <a href="Quezon_City#Cubao" title="Quezon City">Cubao</a>, <a href="Quezon_City" title="Quezon City">Quezon City</a>, Philippines. It was founded as a "rebellion" of several teams from the now-defunct Manila Industrial and Commercial Athletic Association, which was tightly controlled by the Basketball Association of the Philippines (now defunct), the then-FIBA recognized national association. Nine teams from the MICAA participated in the league's first season that opened on April 9, 1975. The <a href="National_Basketball_League_Australia" class="mw-redirect" title="National Basketball League Australia">NBL</a> is Australia's pre-eminent men's professional basketball league. The league commenced in <a href="1979_NBL_Season" class="mw-redirect" title="1979 NBL Season">1979</a>, playing a winter season (April–September) and did so until the completion of the 20th season in <a href="1998_NBL_Season" class="mw-redirect" title="1998 NBL Season">1998</a>. The <a href="1998%E2%80%9399_NBL_season" title="1998–99 NBL season">1998–99</a> season, which commenced only months later, was the first season after the shift to the current summer season format (October–April). This shift was an attempt to avoid competing directly against <a href="Football_in_Australia" title="Football in Australia">Australia's various football codes</a>. It features 8 teams from around Australia and one in New Zealand. A few players including <a href="Luc_Longley" title="Luc Longley">Luc Longley</a>, <a href="Andrew_Gaze" title="Andrew Gaze">Andrew Gaze</a>, <a href="Shane_Heal" title="Shane Heal">Shane Heal</a>, <a href="Chris_Anstey" title="Chris Anstey">Chris Anstey</a> and <a href="Andrew_Bogut" title="Andrew Bogut">Andrew Bogut</a> made it big internationally, becoming poster figures for the sport in Australia. The <a href="Women's_National_Basketball_League" title="Women's National Basketball League">Women's National Basketball League</a> began in 1981.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Women's_basketball">Women's basketball</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Women's_basketball" title="Women's basketball">Women's basketball</a></div>

<p>Women began to play basketball in the fall of 1892 at <a href="Smith_College" title="Smith College">Smith College</a> through <a href="Senda_Berenson_Abbott" title="Senda Berenson Abbott">Senda Berenson</a>, substitute director of the newly opened gymnasium and physical education teacher, after having modified the rules for women. Shortly after Berenson was hired at Smith, she visited Naismith to learn more about the game.<sup id="cite_ref-Pioneers_in_Physical_Education_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pioneers_in_Physical_Education-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fascinated by the new sport and the values it could teach, she instantly introduced the game as a class exercise and soon after teams were organized. The first women's collegiate basketball game was played on March 21, 1893, when her Smith freshmen and sophomores played against one another.<sup id="cite_ref-Senda_Berenson_Papers_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Senda_Berenson_Papers-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first official women's interinstitutional game was played later that year between the <a href="University_of_California%2C_Berkeley" title="University of California, Berkeley">University of California</a> and the Miss Head's School.<sup id="cite_ref-Jenkins_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Jenkins-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1899, a committee was established at the Conference of Physical Training in Springfield to draw up general rules for women's basketball.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These rules, designed by Berenson, were published in 1899.<sup id="cite_ref-Berenson1901_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berenson1901-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1902 Berenson became the editor of <a href="Spalding_(sports_equipment)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spalding (sports equipment)">A. G. Spalding</a>'s first Women's Basketball Guide.<sup id="cite_ref-Senda_Berenson_Papers_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Senda_Berenson_Papers-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same year women of <a href="Mount_Holyoke_College" title="Mount Holyoke College">Mount Holyoke</a> and <a href="H._Sophie_Newcomb_Memorial_College" title="H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College">Sophie Newcomb College</a> (coached by <a href="Clara_Gregory_Baer" title="Clara Gregory Baer">Clara Gregory Baer</a>), began playing basketball. By 1895, the game had spread to colleges across the country, including <a href="Wellesley_College" title="Wellesley College">Wellesley</a>, <a href="Vassar_College" title="Vassar College">Vassar</a>, and <a href="Bryn_Mawr_College" title="Bryn Mawr College">Bryn Mawr</a>. The first intercollegiate women's game was on April 4, 1896. <a href="Stanford_Cardinal_women's_basketball" title="Stanford Cardinal women's basketball">Stanford</a> women played <a href="California_Golden_Bears_women's_basketball" title="California Golden Bears women's basketball">Berkeley</a>, 9-on-9, ending in a 2–1 Stanford victory.

</p><p>Women's basketball development was more structured than that for men in the early years. In 1905, the executive committee on Basket Ball Rules (National Women's Basketball Committee) was created by the <a href="American_Physical_Education_Association" title="American Physical Education Association">American Physical Education Association</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Historical_Timeline_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Historical_Timeline-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These rules called for six to nine players per team and 11 officials. The <a href="International_Women's_Sports_Federation" title="International Women's Sports Federation">International Women's Sports Federation</a> (1924) included a women's basketball competition. 37 women's high school varsity basketball or state tournaments were held by 1925. And in 1926, the Amateur Athletic Union backed the first <a href="NAIA_national_women's_basketball_championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NAIA national women's basketball championship">national women's basketball championship</a>, complete with men's rules.<sup id="cite_ref-Historical_Timeline_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Historical_Timeline-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="Edmonton_Grads" title="Edmonton Grads">Edmonton Grads</a>, a touring Canadian women's team based in <a href="Edmonton%2C_Alberta" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmonton, Alberta">Edmonton</a>, Alberta, operated between 1915 and 1940. The Grads toured all over North America, and were exceptionally successful. They posted a record of 522 wins and only 20 losses over that span, as they met any team that wanted to challenge them, funding their tours from gate receipts.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Grads also shone on several exhibition trips to Europe, and won four consecutive exhibition Olympics tournaments, in 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936; however, women's basketball was not an official Olympic sport until 1976. The Grads' players were unpaid, and had to remain single. The Grads' style focused on team play, without overly emphasizing skills of individual players. The first women's <a href="Amateur_Athletic_Union" title="Amateur Athletic Union">AAU</a> All-America team was chosen in 1929.<sup id="cite_ref-Historical_Timeline_37-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Historical_Timeline-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Women's industrial leagues sprang up throughout the United States, producing famous athletes, including <a href="Babe_Zaharias" class="mw-redirect" title="Babe Zaharias">Babe Didrikson</a> of the <a href="Golden_Cyclones" title="Golden Cyclones">Golden Cyclones</a>, and the <a href="All_American_Red_Heads_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="All American Red Heads Team">All American Red Heads Team</a>, which competed against men's teams, using men's rules. By 1938, the women's national championship changed from a three-court game to <a href="6_on_6_Basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="6 on 6 Basketball">two-court game with six players per team</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Historical_Timeline_37-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Historical_Timeline-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<p>The NBA-backed <a href="Women's_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association">Women's National Basketball Association</a> (WNBA) began in 1997. Though it had shaky attendance figures, several marquee players (<a href="Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Lisa Leslie</a>, <a href="Diana_Taurasi" title="Diana Taurasi">Diana Taurasi</a>, and <a href="Candace_Parker" title="Candace Parker">Candace Parker</a> among others) have helped the league's popularity and level of competition. Other <a href="Women's_professional_sports" title="Women's professional sports">professional women's basketball</a> leagues in the United States, such as the <a href="American_Basketball_League_(1996%E2%80%9398)" class="mw-redirect" title="American Basketball League (1996–98)">American Basketball League (1996–98)</a>, have folded in part because of the popularity of the WNBA. The WNBA has been looked at by many as a niche league. However, the league has recently taken steps forward. In June 2007, the WNBA signed a contract extension with <a href="ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>. The new television deal ran from 2009 to 2016. Along with this deal, came the first-ever rights fees to be paid to a women's professional sports league. Over the eight years of the contract, "millions and millions of dollars" were "dispersed to the league's teams." In a March 12, 2009, article, <a href="NBA" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA">NBA</a> commissioner <a href="David_Stern" title="David Stern">David Stern</a> said that in the bad economy, "the NBA is far less profitable than the WNBA. We're losing a lot of money among a large number of teams. We're budgeting the WNBA to break even this year."<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Rules_and_regulations">Rules and regulations</h2></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Rules_of_basketball" title="Rules of basketball">Rules of basketball</a></div>

<p>Measurements and time limits discussed in this section often vary among tournaments and organizations; international and NBA rules are used in this section.

</p><p>The object of the game is to outscore one's opponents by throwing the ball through the opponents' basket from above while preventing the opponents from doing so on their own. An attempt to score in this way is called a shot. A successful shot is worth two points, or <a href="Three-point_field_goal" title="Three-point field goal">three points</a> if it is taken from beyond the three-point arc 6.75 meters (22 ft 2 in) from the basket in international games<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 23 feet 9 inches (7.24 m) in NBA games.<sup id="cite_ref-NBA.com_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBA.com-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A one-point shot can be earned when shooting from the foul line after a foul is made. After a team has scored from a field goal or free throw, play is resumed with a <b>throw-in</b> awarded to the non-scoring team taken from a point beyond the endline of the court where the points were scored.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Playing_regulations">Playing regulations</h3></div>

<p>Games are played in four quarters of 10 (<a href="FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 12 minutes (NBA).<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> College men's games use two 20-minute halves,<sup id="cite_ref-college_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-college-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> college women's games use 10-minute quarters,<sup id="cite_ref-2015_NCAA_women's_changes_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2015_NCAA_women's_changes-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and most United States high school varsity games use 8-minute quarters; however, this varies from state to state.<sup id="cite_ref-highschool_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-highschool-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 15 minutes are allowed for a half-time break under FIBA, NBA, and NCAA rules<sup id="cite_ref-college_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-college-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 10 minutes in United States high schools.<sup id="cite_ref-highschool_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-highschool-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Overtime_(sports)#Basketball" title="Overtime (sports)">Overtime</a> periods are five minutes in length<sup id="cite_ref-college_45-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-college-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> except for high school, which is four minutes in length.<sup id="cite_ref-highschool_47-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-highschool-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Teams exchange baskets for the second half. The time allowed is actual playing time; the clock is stopped while the play is not active. Therefore, games generally take much longer to complete than the allotted game time, typically about two hours.

</p><p>Five players from each team may be on the court at one time.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Substitution_(sport)" title="Substitution (sport)">Substitutions</a> are unlimited but can only be done when play is stopped. Teams also have a coach, who oversees the development and strategies of the team, and other team personnel such as assistant coaches, managers, statisticians, doctors and trainers.

</p><p>For both men's and women's teams, a standard uniform consists of a pair of shorts and a <a href="Jersey_(clothing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jersey (clothing)">jersey</a> with a clearly visible number, unique within the team, printed on both the front and back. Players wear <a href="High-top" title="High-top">high-top</a> sneakers that provide extra ankle support. Typically, team names, players' names and, outside of North America, sponsors are printed on the uniforms.

</p><p>A limited number of time-outs, clock stoppages requested by a coach (or sometimes mandated in the NBA) for a short meeting with the players, are allowed. They generally last no longer than one minute (100 seconds in the NBA) unless, for televised games, a commercial break is needed.

</p><p>The game is controlled by the <a href="Official_(basketball)" title="Official (basketball)">officials</a> consisting of the referee (referred to as crew chief in the NBA), one or two umpires (referred to as referees in the NBA) and the table officials. For college, the NBA, and many high schools, there are a total of three referees on the court. The table officials are responsible for keeping track of each team's scoring, timekeeping, individual and team <a href="Personal_foul_(basketball)" title="Personal foul (basketball)">fouls</a>, player substitutions, team <a href="Possession_arrow" class="mw-redirect" title="Possession arrow">possession arrow</a>, and the <a href="Shot_clock" title="Shot clock">shot clock</a>.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Equipment">Equipment</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="Basketball_(ball)" title="Basketball (ball)">Basketball (ball)</a>, <a href="Basketball_court" title="Basketball court">Basketball court</a>, and <a href="Backboard_(basketball)" title="Backboard (basketball)">Backboard (basketball)</a></div>

<p>The only essential equipment in a basketball game is the ball and the court: a flat, rectangular surface with baskets at opposite ends. Competitive levels require the use of more equipment such as clocks, score sheets, scoreboards, alternating possession arrows, and whistle-operated stop-clock systems.

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<p>A regulation <a href="Basketball_court" title="Basketball court">basketball court</a> in international games is 28 meters (92 feet) long and 15 meters (49 feet) wide. In the <a href="NBA" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA">NBA</a> and <a href="NCAA" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA">NCAA</a> the court is 94 by 50 feet (29 by 15 meters).<sup id="cite_ref-NBA.com_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBA.com-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Most courts have <a href="Wood_flooring" title="Wood flooring">wood flooring</a>, usually constructed from <a href="Maple" title="Maple">maple</a> planks running in the same direction as the longer court dimension.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name and logo of the home team is usually painted on or around the center circle.

</p><p>The basket is a steel rim 18 inches (46 cm) diameter with an attached net affixed to a backboard that measures 6 by 3.5 feet (1.8 by 1.1 meters) and one basket is at each end of the court. The white outlined box on the backboard is 18 inches (46 cm) high and 2 feet (61 cm) wide. At almost all levels of competition, the top of the rim is exactly 10 feet (3.05 meters) above the court and 4 feet (1.22 meters) inside the baseline. While variation is possible in the dimensions of the court and backboard, it is considered important for the basket to be of the correct height – a rim that is off by just a few inches can have an adverse effect on shooting. The net must "check the ball momentarily as it passes through the basket" to aid the visual confirmation that the ball went through.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The act of checking the ball has the further advantage of slowing down the ball so the rebound does not go as far.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The size of the basketball is also regulated. For men, the official ball is 29.5 inches (75 cm) in circumference (size 7, or a "295 ball") and weighs 22 oz (620 g). If women are playing, the official basketball size is 28.5 inches (72 cm) in circumference (size 6, or a "285 ball") with a weight of 20 oz (570 g). In <a href="3x3_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="3x3 (basketball)">3x3</a>, a formalized version of the halfcourt 3-on-3 game, a dedicated ball with the circumference of a size 6 ball but the weight of a size 7 ball is used in all competitions (men's, women's, and mixed teams).<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Violations">Violations</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Violation_(basketball)" title="Violation (basketball)">Violation (basketball)</a></div>

<p>The ball may be advanced toward the basket by being shot, passed between players, thrown, tapped, rolled or dribbled (bouncing the ball while running).

</p><p>The ball must stay within the court; the last team to touch the ball before it travels <a href="Out_of_bounds" title="Out of bounds">out of bounds</a> forfeits possession. The ball is out of bounds if it touches a boundary line, or touches any player or object that is out of bounds.

</p><p>There are limits placed on the steps a player may take without dribbling, which commonly results in an infraction known as <a href="Traveling_(basketball)" title="Traveling (basketball)">traveling</a>. Nor may a player stop their dribble and then resume dribbling. A dribble that touches both hands is considered stopping the dribble, giving this infraction the name <a href="Double_dribble" title="Double dribble">double dribble</a>. Within a dribble, the player cannot carry the ball by placing their hand on the bottom of the ball; doing so is known as <a href="Carrying_(basketball)" title="Carrying (basketball)">carrying the ball</a>. A team, once having established ball control in the front half of their court, may not return the ball to the backcourt and be the first to touch it. A violation of these rules results in loss of possession.

</p><p>The ball may not be kicked, nor be struck with the fist. For the offense, a violation of these rules results in loss of possession; for the defense, most leagues reset the shot clock and the offensive team is given possession of the ball out of bounds.

</p><p>There are limits imposed on the time taken before progressing the ball past halfway (8 seconds in FIBA and the NBA; 10 seconds in NCAA and high school for both sexes), before attempting a shot (24 seconds in FIBA, the NBA, and <a href="U_Sports" title="U Sports">U Sports</a> (Canadian universities) play for both sexes, and 30 seconds in NCAA play for both sexes), holding the ball while closely guarded (5 seconds), and remaining in the restricted area known as the free-throw lane, (or the "<a href="Key_(basketball)" title="Key (basketball)">key</a>") (3 seconds). These rules are designed to promote more offense.

</p><p>There are also limits on how players may <a href="Block_(basketball)" title="Block (basketball)">block</a> an opponent's field goal attempt or help a teammate's field goal attempt. <a href="Goaltending" class="mw-redirect" title="Goaltending">Goaltending</a> is a defender's touching of a ball that is on a downward flight toward the basket, while the related violation of <a href="Basket_interference" title="Basket interference">basket interference</a> is the touching of a ball that is on the rim or above the basket, or by a player reaching through the basket from below. Goaltending and basket interference committed by a defender result in awarding the basket to the offense, while basket interference committed by an offensive player results in cancelling the basket if one is scored. The defense gains possession in all cases of goaltending or basket interference.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fouls">Fouls</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="Personal_foul_(basketball)" title="Personal foul (basketball)">Personal foul (basketball)</a> and <a href="Technical_foul" title="Technical foul">Technical foul</a></div>

<p>An attempt to unfairly disadvantage an opponent through certain types of physical contact is illegal and is called a personal foul. These are most commonly committed by defensive players; however, they can be committed by offensive players as well. Players who are fouled either receive the ball to pass inbounds again, or receive one or more <a href="Free_throw" title="Free throw">free throws</a> if they are fouled in the act of shooting, depending on whether the shot was successful. One point is awarded for making a free throw, which is attempted from a line 15 feet (4.6 m) from the basket.

</p><p>The referee is responsible for judging whether contact is illegal, sometimes resulting in controversy. The calling of fouls can vary between games, leagues and referees.

</p><p>There is a second category of fouls called <a href="Technical_foul" title="Technical foul">technical fouls</a>, which may be charged for various rules violations including failure to properly record a player in the scorebook, or for unsportsmanlike conduct. These infractions result in one or two free throws, which may be taken by any of the five players on the court at the time. Repeated incidents can result in <a href="Ejection_(sports)" title="Ejection (sports)">disqualification</a>. A blatant foul involving physical contact that is either excessive or unnecessary is called an intentional foul (flagrant foul in the NBA). In FIBA and NCAA women's basketball, a foul resulting in ejection is called a disqualifying foul, while in leagues other than the NBA, such a foul is referred to as flagrant.

</p><p>If a team exceeds a certain limit of team fouls in a given period (quarter or half) – four for NBA, NCAA women's, and international games – the opposing team is awarded one or two free throws on all subsequent non-shooting fouls for that period, the number depending on the league. In the US college men's game and high school games for both sexes, if a team reaches 7 fouls in a half, the opposing team is awarded one free throw, along with a second shot if the first is made. This is called shooting "one-and-one". If a team exceeds 10 fouls in the half, the opposing team is awarded two free throws on all subsequent fouls for the half.

</p><p>When a team shoots foul shots, the opponents may not interfere with the shooter, nor may they try to regain possession until the last or potentially last free throw is in the air.

</p><p>After a team has committed a specified number of fouls, the other team is said to be "in the bonus". On scoreboards, this is usually signified with an indicator light reading "Bonus" or "Penalty" with an illuminated directional arrow or dot indicating that team is to receive free throws when fouled by the opposing team. (Some scoreboards also indicate the number of fouls committed.)

</p><p>If a team misses the first shot of a two-shot situation, the opposing team must wait for the completion of the second shot before attempting to reclaim possession of the ball and continuing play.

</p><p>If a player is fouled while attempting a shot and the shot is unsuccessful, the player is awarded a number of free throws equal to the value of the attempted shot. A player fouled while attempting a regular two-point shot thus receives two shots, and a player fouled while attempting a three-point shot receives three shots.

</p><p>If a player is fouled while attempting a shot and the shot is successful, typically the player will be awarded one additional free throw for one point. In combination with a regular shot, this is called a "three-point play" or "four-point play" (or more colloquially, an "and one") because of the basket made at the time of the foul (2 or 3 points) and the additional free throw (1 point).

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Common_techniques_and_practices">Common techniques and practices</h2></div>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Positions">Positions</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Basketball_positions" title="Basketball positions">Basketball positions</a></div>

<p>Although the rules do not specify any positions whatsoever, they have evolved as part of basketball. During the early years of basketball's evolution, two guards, two forwards, and one center were used. In more recent times specific positions evolved, but the current trend, advocated by many top coaches including <a href="Mike_Krzyzewski" title="Mike Krzyzewski">Mike Krzyzewski</a>, is towards positionless basketball, where big players are free to shoot from outside and dribble if their skill allows it.<sup id="cite_ref-Positionless_Basketball_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Positionless_Basketball-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Popular descriptions of positions include:

</p><p><a href="Point_guard" title="Point guard">Point guard</a> (often called the "<b>1</b>") : usually the fastest player on the team, organizes the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that it gets to the right player at the right time.

</p><p><a href="Shooting_guard" title="Shooting guard">Shooting guard</a> (the "<b>2</b>") : creates a high volume of shots on offense, mainly long-ranged; and guards the opponent's best perimeter player on defense.

</p><p><a href="Small_forward" title="Small forward">Small forward</a> (the "<b>3</b>") : often primarily responsible for scoring points via cuts to the basket and dribble penetration; on defense seeks rebounds and steals, but sometimes plays more actively.

</p><p><a href="Power_forward" title="Power forward">Power forward</a> (the "<b>4</b>"): plays offensively often with their back to the basket; on defense, plays under the basket (in a zone defense) or against the opposing power forward (in <a href="Man-to-man_defense" title="Man-to-man defense">man-to-man defense</a>).

</p><p><a href="Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">Center</a> (the "<b>5</b>"): uses height and size to score (on offense), to protect the basket closely (on defense), or to rebound.

</p><p>The above descriptions are flexible. For most teams today, the shooting guard and small forward have very similar responsibilities and are often called <b>the wings</b>, as do the power forward and center, who are often called <b>post players.</b> While most teams describe two players as guards, two as forwards, and one as a center, on some occasions teams choose to call them by different designations.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Strategy">Strategy</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Basketball_playbook" title="Basketball playbook">Basketball playbook</a></div>

<p>There are two main defensive strategies: <i>zone defense</i> and <i>man-to-man defense</i>. In a <a href="Zone_defense" title="Zone defense">zone defense</a>, each player is assigned to guard a specific area of the court. Zone defenses often allow the defense to double team the ball, a manoeuver known as a <b>trap</b>. In a <a href="Man-to-man_defense" title="Man-to-man defense">man-to-man defense</a>, each defensive player guards a specific opponent.

</p><p>Offensive plays are more varied, normally involving planned passes and movement by players without the ball. A quick movement by an offensive player without the ball to gain an advantageous position is known as a <i>cut</i>. A legal attempt by an offensive player to stop an opponent from guarding a teammate, by standing in the defender's way such that the teammate cuts next to him, is a <i><a href="Screen_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Screen (basketball)">screen</a></i> or <i>pick</i>. The two plays are combined in the <i><a href="Pick_and_roll" title="Pick and roll">pick and roll</a></i>, in which a player sets a pick and then "rolls" away from the pick towards the basket. Screens and cuts are very important in offensive plays; these allow the quick passes and teamwork, which can lead to a successful basket. Teams almost always have several offensive plays planned to ensure their movement is not predictable. On court, the point guard is usually responsible for indicating which play will occur.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shooting">Shooting</h3></div>

<p>Shooting is the act of attempting to score points by throwing the ball through the basket, methods varying with players and situations.

</p><p>Typically, a player faces the basket with both feet facing the basket. A player will rest the ball on the fingertips of the dominant hand (the shooting arm) slightly above the head, with the other hand supporting the side of the ball. The ball is usually shot by jumping (though not always) and extending the shooting arm. The shooting arm, fully extended with the wrist fully bent, is held stationary for a moment following the release of the ball, known as a <i>follow-through</i>. Players often try to put a steady backspin on the ball to absorb its impact with the rim. The ideal trajectory of the shot is somewhat controversial, but generally a proper arc is recommended. Players may shoot directly into the basket or may use the backboard to redirect the ball into the basket.

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<p>The two most common shots that use the above described setup are the <i><a href="Set_shot_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Set shot (basketball)">set shot</a></i> and the <i><a href="Jump_shot_(basketball)" title="Jump shot (basketball)">jump shot</a></i>. Both are preceded by a crouching action which <a href="Isometric_exercise#Isometric_presses_as_preparation_for_explosive_power_movements" title="Isometric exercise">preloads</a> the muscles and increases the power of the shot. In a set shot, the shooter straightens up and throws from a standing position with neither foot leaving the floor; this is typically used for free throws. For a jump shot, the throw is taken in mid-air with the ball being released near the top of the jump. This provides much greater power and range, and it also allows the player to elevate over the defender. Failure to release the ball before the feet return to the floor is considered a traveling violation.

</p><p>Another common shot is called the <i><a href="Layup" title="Layup">layup</a></i>. This shot requires the player to be in motion toward the basket, and to "lay" the ball "up" and into the basket, typically off the backboard (the backboard-free, underhand version is called a <i><a href="Finger_roll" title="Finger roll">finger roll</a></i>). The most crowd-pleasing and typically highest-percentage accuracy shot is the <i><a href="Slam_dunk" title="Slam dunk">slam dunk</a></i>, in which the player jumps very high and throws the ball downward, through the basket while touching it.

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<p>Another shot that is less common than the layup, is the "circus shot". The circus shot is a low-percentage shot that is flipped, heaved, scooped, or flung toward the hoop while the shooter is off-balance, airborne, falling down or facing away from the basket. A back-shot is a shot taken when the player is facing away from the basket, and may be shot with the dominant hand, or both; but there is a very low chance that the shot will be successful.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>A shot that misses both the rim and the backboard completely is referred to as an <i><a href="Air_ball" title="Air ball">air ball</a></i>. A particularly bad shot, or one that only hits the backboard, is jocularly called a <a href="Brick_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brick (basketball)">brick</a>. The <i>hang time</i> is the length of time a player stays in the air after jumping, either to make a slam dunk, layup or jump shot.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rebounding">Rebounding</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Rebound_(basketball)" title="Rebound (basketball)">Rebound (basketball)</a></div>

<p>The objective of rebounding is to successfully gain possession of the basketball after a missed field goal or free throw, as it rebounds from the hoop or backboard. This plays a major role in the game, as most possessions end when a team misses a shot. There are two categories of rebounds: offensive rebounds, in which the ball is recovered by the offensive side and does not change possession, and defensive rebounds, in which the defending team gains possession of the loose ball. The majority of rebounds are defensive, as the team on defense tends to be in better position to recover missed shots; for example, about 75% of rebounds in the NBA are defensive.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Passing">Passing</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="Assist_(basketball)" title="Assist (basketball)">Assist (basketball)</a></div>

<p>A pass is a method of moving the ball between players. Most passes are accompanied by a step forward to increase power and are followed through with the hands to ensure accuracy.

</p><p>A staple pass is the <i>chest pass</i>. The ball is passed directly from the passer's chest to the receiver's chest. A proper chest pass involves an outward snap of the thumbs to add velocity and leaves the defence little time to react.

</p><p>Another type of pass is the <i>bounce pass</i>. Here, the passer bounces the ball crisply about two-thirds of the way from his own chest to the receiver. The ball strikes the court and bounces up toward the receiver. The bounce pass takes longer to complete than the chest pass, but it is also harder for the opposing team to intercept (kicking the ball deliberately is a violation). Thus, players often use the bounce pass in crowded moments, or to pass around a defender.

</p><p>The <i>overhead pass</i> is used to pass the ball over a defender. The ball is released while over the passer's head.

</p><p>The <i>outlet pass</i> occurs after a team gets a defensive rebound. The next pass after the rebound is the <i>outlet pass</i>.

</p><p>The crucial aspect of any good pass is it being difficult to intercept. Good passers can pass the ball with great accuracy and they know exactly where each of their other teammates prefers to receive the ball. A special way of doing this is passing the ball without looking at the receiving teammate. This is called a <i>no-look pass</i>.

</p><p>Another advanced style of passing is the <i>behind-the-back pass</i>, which, as the description implies, involves throwing the ball behind the passer's back to a teammate. Although some players can perform such a pass effectively, many coaches discourage no-look or behind-the-back passes, believing them to be difficult to control and more likely to result in turnovers or violations.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dribbling">Dribbling</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Dribble" class="mw-redirect" title="Dribble">Dribble</a></div>

<p>Dribbling is the act of bouncing the ball continuously with one hand and is a requirement for a player to take steps with the ball. To dribble, a player pushes the ball down towards the ground with the fingertips rather than patting it; this ensures greater control.

</p><p>When dribbling past an opponent, the dribbler should dribble with the hand farthest from the opponent, making it more difficult for the defensive player to get to the ball. It is therefore important for a player to be able to dribble competently with both hands.

</p><p>Good dribblers (or "ball handlers") tend to keep their dribbling hand low to the ground, reducing the distance of travel of the ball from the floor to the hand, making it more difficult for the defender to "steal" the ball. Good ball handlers frequently dribble behind their backs, between their legs, and switch directions suddenly, making a less predictable dribbling pattern that is more difficult to defend against. This is called a <a href="Crossover_dribble" title="Crossover dribble">crossover</a>, which is the most effective way to move past defenders while dribbling.

</p><p>A skilled player can dribble without watching the ball, using the dribbling motion or <a href="Peripheral_vision" title="Peripheral vision">peripheral vision</a> to keep track of the ball's location. By not having to focus on the ball, a player can look for teammates or scoring opportunities, as well as avoid the danger of having someone steal the ball away from him/her.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Blocking">Blocking</h3></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Block_(basketball)" title="Block (basketball)">Block (basketball)</a></div>

<p>A block is performed when, after a shot is attempted, a defender succeeds in altering the shot by touching the ball. In almost all variants of play, it is illegal to touch the ball after it is in the downward path of its arc; this is known as <i><a href="Goaltending" class="mw-redirect" title="Goaltending">goaltending</a></i>. It is also illegal under NBA and Men's NCAA basketball to block a shot after it has touched the backboard, or when any part of the ball is directly above the rim. Under international rules it is illegal to block a shot that is in the downward path of its arc or one that has touched the backboard until the ball has hit the rim. After the ball hits the rim, it is again legal to touch it even though it is no longer considered as a block performed.

</p><p>To block a shot, a player has to be able to reach a point higher than where the shot is released. Thus, height can be an advantage in blocking. Players who are taller and playing the power forward or center positions generally record more blocks than players who are shorter and playing the guard positions. However, with good timing and a sufficiently high vertical leap, even shorter players can be effective shot blockers.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Height">Height</h2></div>

<p>At the professional level, most male players are above 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) and most women above 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m). Guards, for whom physical coordination and ball-handling skills are crucial, tend to be the smallest players. Almost all forwards in the top men's pro leagues are 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) or taller. Most centers are over 6 feet 10 inches (2.08 m) tall. According to a survey given to all NBA teams, the average height of all NBA players is just under 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m), with the average weight being close to 222 pounds (101 kg). The tallest players ever in the NBA were <a href="Manute_Bol" title="Manute Bol">Manute Bol</a> and <a href="Gheorghe_Mure%C8%99an" title="Gheorghe Mureșan">Gheorghe Mureșan</a>, who were both 7 feet 7 inches (2.31 m) tall. At 7 feet 2 inches (2.18 m), <a href="Margo_Dydek" title="Margo Dydek">Margo Dydek</a> was the tallest player in the history of the WNBA.

</p><p>The shortest player ever to play in the NBA is <a href="Muggsy_Bogues" title="Muggsy Bogues">Muggsy Bogues</a> at 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m).<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other average-height or relatively short players have thrived at the pro level, including <a href="Spud_Webb" title="Spud Webb">Anthony "Spud" Webb</a>, who was 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall, but had a 42-inch (1.1 m) vertical leap, giving him significant height when jumping, and <a href="Temeka_Johnson" title="Temeka Johnson">Temeka Johnson</a>, who won the <a href="WNBA_Rookie_of_the_Year_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA Rookie of the Year Award">WNBA Rookie of the Year Award</a> and a championship with the <a href="Phoenix_Mercury" title="Phoenix Mercury">Phoenix Mercury</a> while standing only 5 feet 3 inches (1.60 m). While shorter players are often at a disadvantage in certain aspects of the game, their ability to navigate quickly through crowded areas of the court and steal the ball by reaching low are strengths.

</p><p>Players regularly inflate their height in high school or college. Many prospects exaggerate their height while in high school or college to make themselves more appealing to coaches and scouts, who prefer taller players. Charles Barkley stated; "I've been measured at 6–5, 6-<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">

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</style><span class="frac">4<span class="sr-only">+</span><span class="num">3</span>⁄<span class="den">4</span></span>. But I started in college at 6–6." Sam Smith, a former writer from the <i><a href="Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i>, said: "We sort of know the heights, because after camp, the sheet comes out. But you use that height, and the player gets mad. And then you hear from his agent. Or you file your story with the right height, and the copy desk changes it because they have the 'official' N.B.A. media guide, which is wrong. So you sort of go along with the joke."<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes.com_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes.com-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Since the <a href="2019%E2%80%9320_NBA_season" title="2019–20 NBA season">2019–20 NBA season</a> heights of NBA players are recorded definitively by measuring players with their shoes off.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Variations_and_similar_games">Variations and similar games</h2></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Variations_of_basketball" title="Variations of basketball">Variations of basketball</a></div>

<p>Variations of basketball are activities based on the game of basketball, using common basketball skills and equipment (primarily the ball and basket). Some variations only have superficial rule changes, while others are distinct games with varying degrees of influence from basketball. Other variations include children's games, contests or activities meant to help players reinforce skills.

</p><p>An earlier version of basketball, played primarily by women and girls, was <a href="Six-on-six_basketball" title="Six-on-six basketball">six-on-six basketball</a>. <a href="Horseball" title="Horseball">Horseball</a> is a game played on horseback where a ball is handled and points are scored by shooting it through a high net (approximately 1.5m×1.5m). The sport is like a combination of <a href="Polo" title="Polo">polo</a>, <a href="Rugby_football" title="Rugby football">rugby</a>, and basketball. There is even a form played on donkeys known as <a href="Donkey_basketball" title="Donkey basketball">Donkey basketball</a>, which has attracted criticism from animal rights groups.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Half-court">Half-court</h3></div>

<p>Perhaps the single most common variation of basketball is the half-court game, played in informal settings without referees or strict rules. Only one basket is used, and the ball must be "taken back" or "cleared" – passed or dribbled outside the three-point line each time possession of the ball changes from one team to the other. Half-court games require less <a href="Cardiovascular" class="mw-redirect" title="Cardiovascular">cardiovascular</a> stamina, since players need not run back and forth a full court. Half-court raises the number of players that can use a court or, conversely, can be played if there is an insufficient number to form full 5-on-5 teams.

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<p>Half-court basketball is usually played 1-on-1, 2-on-2 or 3-on-3. The last of these variations is gradually gaining official recognition as <a href="3x3_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="3x3 (basketball)">3x3</a>, originally known as FIBA 33. It was first tested at the <a href="2007_Asian_Indoor_Games" title="2007 Asian Indoor Games">2007 Asian Indoor Games</a> in <a href="Macau" title="Macau">Macau</a> and the first official tournaments were held at the <a href="2009_Asian_Youth_Games" title="2009 Asian Youth Games">2009 Asian Youth Games</a> and the <a href="2010_Youth_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 Youth Olympics">2010 Youth Olympics</a>, both in Singapore. The first FIBA 3x3 Youth World Championships<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were held in <a href="Rimini" title="Rimini">Rimini</a>, Italy in 2011, with the first <a href="FIBA_3x3_World_Championships" class="mw-redirect" title="FIBA 3x3 World Championships">FIBA 3x3 World Championships</a> for senior teams following <a href="2012_FIBA_3x3_World_Championships" title="2012 FIBA 3x3 World Championships">a year later</a> in <a href="Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>. The sport is highly tipped to become an <a href="Olympic_sport" class="mw-redirect" title="Olympic sport">Olympic sport</a> as early as <a href="2016_Summer_Olympics" title="2016 Summer Olympics">2016</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the summer of 2017, the <a href="BIG3" class="mw-redirect" title="BIG3">BIG3</a> basketball league, a professional 3x3 half court basketball league that features former NBA players, began. The BIG3 features several rule variants including a <a href="Four-point_field_goal" title="Four-point field goal">four-point field goal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_variations">Other variations</h3></div>

<p>Variations of basketball with their own page or subsection include:

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<ul><li><b><a href="Twenty-one_(basketball)" title="Twenty-one (basketball)">21</a></b> (also known as <b>American</b>, <b>cutthroat</b> and <b>roughhouse</b>)<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li><b><a href="Around_the_World_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Around the World (basketball)">Around the World</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Variations_of_basketball#Bounce" title="Variations of basketball">Bounce</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Variations_of_basketball#Firing_Squad" title="Variations of basketball">Firing Squad</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Variations_of_basketball#Fives" title="Variations of basketball">Fives</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Hotshot_(game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hotshot (game)">Hotshot</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Knockout_(game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Knockout (game)">Knockout</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Variations_of_basketball#One-shot_conquer" title="Variations of basketball">One-shot conquer</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Variations_of_basketball#Steal_The_Bacon" title="Variations of basketball">Steal The Bacon</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Variations_of_basketball#War" title="Variations of basketball">Basketball War</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Water_basketball" title="Water basketball">Water basketball</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Beach_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Beach basketball">Beach basketball</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Streetball" title="Streetball">Streetball</a></b></li></ul>

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<ul><li><b>One-on-one</b> is a variation in which two players will use only a small section of the court (often no more than a half of a court) and compete to play the ball into a single hoop. Such games tend to emphasize individual dribbling and ball stealing skills over shooting and team play.</li>

<li><b>Dunk Hoops</b> is a variation played on basketball hoops with lowered (under basketball regulation 10 feet) rims. It originated when the popularity of the slam dunk grew and was developed to create better chances for dunks with lowered rims and using altered <a href="Goaltending" class="mw-redirect" title="Goaltending">goaltending</a> rules.</li>

<li><b>Unicycle basketball</b> is played using a regulation basketball on a regular basketball court with the same rules, for example, one must dribble the ball while riding. There are a number of rules that are particular to unicycle basketball as well, for example, a player must have at least one foot on a pedal when in-bounding the ball. Unicycle basketball is usually played using 24" or smaller unicycles, and using plastic pedals, both to preserve the court and the players' shins. Popular unicycle basketball games are organized in North America.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<p><a href="Variations_of_basketball#More_distantly_related_games" title="Variations of basketball">Spin-offs from basketball</a> that are now separate sports include:

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<ul><li><b><a href="Ringball" title="Ringball">Ringball</a></b>, a traditional South African sport that stems from basketball, has been played since 1907. The sport is now promoted in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, India, and Mauritius to establish Ringball as an international sport.</li>

<li><b><a href="Korfball" title="Korfball">Korfball</a></b> (Dutch: Korfbal, <i>korf</i> meaning 'basket') started in the Netherlands and is now played worldwide as a mixed-gender team ball game, similar to mixed netball and basketball.</li>

<li><b><a href="Netball" title="Netball">Netball</a></b> is a limited-contact team sport in which two teams of seven try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a high hoop. Australia New Zealand champions (so called ANZ Championship) is very famous in Australia and New Zealand as the premier netball league. Formerly played exclusively by women, netball today features mixed-gender competitions.</li>

<li><b><a href="Slamball" class="mw-redirect" title="Slamball">Slamball</a></b>, invented by television writer Mason Gordon, is a full-contact sport featuring <a href="Trampolines" class="mw-redirect" title="Trampolines">trampolines</a>. The main difference from basketball is the court; below the padded rim and <a href="Backboard_(basketball)" title="Backboard (basketball)">backboard</a> are four trampolines set into the floor, which serve to propel players to great heights for <a href="Slam_dunk" title="Slam dunk">slam dunks</a>. The rules also permit some physical contact between the members of the four-player teams. Professional games of Slamball aired on <a href="Spike_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Spike TV">Spike TV</a> in 2002, and the sport has since expanded to China and other countries.</li></ul>

<div class="gallerytext">A basketball player in Israel, 1969</div>

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<div class="gallerytext">Schoolgirls shooting hoops among the <a href="Himalaya" class="mw-redirect" title="Himalaya">Himalayas</a> in <a href="Dharamsala%2C_Himachal_Pradesh" class="mw-redirect" title="Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh">Dharamsala</a>, India.</div>

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<div class="gallerytext">A basketball training course at the Phan Đình Phùng High School, <a href="Hanoi" title="Hanoi">Hanoi</a>, Vietnam</div>

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<div class="gallerytext">A basketball court in <a href="Tamil_Nadu" title="Tamil Nadu">Tamil Nadu</a>, India</div>

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<div class="gallerytext">A basketball court on <a href="Baana" title="Baana">Baana</a> - <a href="Helsinki" title="Helsinki">Helsinki</a>, Finland.</div>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Social_forms_of_basketball">Social forms of basketball</h2></div>

<p>Basketball as a social and communal sport features environments, rules and demographics different from those seen in professional and televised basketball.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recreational_basketball">Recreational basketball</h3></div>

<p>Basketball is played widely as an extracurricular, intramural or amateur sport in schools and colleges. Notable institutions of recreational basketball include:

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<ul><li><b>Basketball schools and academies</b>, where students are trained in developing basketball fundamentals, undergo fitness and endurance exercises and learn various basketball skills. Basketball students learn proper ways of passing, ball handling, dribbling, shooting from various distances, rebounding, offensive moves, defense, <a href="Layup" title="Layup">layups</a>, screens, basketball rules and basketball ethics. Also popular are the basketball camps organized for various occasions, often to get prepared for basketball events, and basketball clinics for improving skills.</li>

<li><b>College and university basketball</b> played in educational institutions of higher learning. This includes <a href="National_Collegiate_Athletic_Association" title="National Collegiate Athletic Association">National Collegiate Athletic Association</a> (NCAA) intercollegiate basketball.</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Disabled_basketball">Disabled basketball</h3></div>

<ul><li><b><a href="Deaf_basketball" title="Deaf basketball">Deaf basketball</a></b>: One of several deaf sports, deaf basketball relies on signing for communication. Any deaf sporting event that happens, its purpose is to serve as a catalyst for the socialization of a low-incidence and geographically dispersed population.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li>

<li><b><a href="Wheelchair_basketball" title="Wheelchair basketball">Wheelchair basketball</a></b>: A sport based on basketball but designed for <a href="Disability" title="Disability">disabled</a> people in <a href="Wheelchair" title="Wheelchair">wheelchairs</a> and considered one of the major <a href="Disabled_sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Disabled sports">disabled sports</a> practiced. There is a functional classification system that is used to help determine if the wheelchair basketball player classification system reflects the existing differences in the performance of elite female players. This system gives an analysis of the players' functional resources through field-testing and game observation. During this system's process, players are assigned a score of 1 to 4.5.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_forms">Other forms</h3></div>

<ul><li><b><a href="Biddy_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Biddy basketball">Biddy basketball</a></b> played by minors, sometimes in formal tournaments, around the globe.</li>

<li><b><a href="Midnight_basketball" title="Midnight basketball">Midnight basketball</a></b>, an initiative to curb inner-city crime in the United States and elsewhere by engaging youth in urban areas with sports as an alternative to drugs and crime.</li>

<li><b><a href="Rezball" title="Rezball">Rezball</a></b>, short for reservation ball, is the avid <a href="Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a> following of basketball, particularly a style of play particular to Native American teams of some areas.</li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fantasy_basketball">Fantasy basketball</h2></div>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Fantasy_basketball" title="Fantasy basketball">Fantasy basketball</a></div>

<p><b><a href="Fantasy_basketball" title="Fantasy basketball">Fantasy basketball</a></b> was popularized during the 1990s by <a href="ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a> Fantasy Sports, <a href="NBA.com" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA.com">NBA.com</a>, and <a href="Yahoo!" class="mw-redirect" title="Yahoo!">Yahoo!</a> Fantasy Sports. On the model of <a href="Fantasy_baseball" title="Fantasy baseball">fantasy baseball</a> and <a href="Fantasy_football_(gridiron)" title="Fantasy football (gridiron)">football</a>, players create fictional teams, select professional basketball players to "play" on these teams through a mock draft or trades, then calculate points based on the players' real-world performance.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basics_of_fantasy_basketball">Basics of fantasy basketball</h3></div>

<ol><li><b>League Setup</b>:

<ul><li>You can join public leagues or create private leagues with friends.</li>

<li>Popular platforms include ESPN, Yahoo Sports, Sleeper, and Fantrax.</li></ul></li>

<li><b>Draft</b>:

<ul><li>A draft (snake or auction) is held at the beginning of the season.</li>

<li>Participants select NBA players to form their teams.</li></ul></li>

<li><b>Scoring Formats</b>:

<ul><li><b>Points League</b>: Players earn points based on specific stats (e.g., 2 points per rebound, 1.5 points per assist).</li>

<li><b>Categories League</b>: Teams compete in specific categories (e.g., best in assists, steals).</li>

<li><b>Rotisserie (Roto)</b>: Teams rank in each category, and rankings are combined to determine the overall score.</li></ul></li>

<li><b>Roster Management</b>:

<ul><li>Teams set lineups daily or weekly, determining which players' stats will count.</li>

<li>You can trade players, pick up free agents, or drop underperforming players.</li></ul></li>

<li><b>Playoffs</b>:

<ul><li>At the end of the regular NBA season, fantasy leagues often have playoffs to determine the champion.</li></ul></li></ol>

<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For a topical guide, see <a href="Outline_of_basketball" title="Outline of basketball">Outline of basketball</a>.</div>

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<ul><li><a href="Basketball_moves" title="Basketball moves">Basketball moves</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_National_League" title="Basketball National League">Basketball National League</a></li>

<li><a href="Continental_Basketball_Association" title="Continental Basketball Association">Continental Basketball Association</a></li>

<li><a href="Glossary_of_basketball_terms" title="Glossary of basketball terms">Glossary of basketball terms</a></li>

<li><a href="Index_of_basketball-related_articles" title="Index of basketball-related articles">Index of basketball-related articles</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_basketball_films" title="List of basketball films">List of basketball films</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_basketball_leagues" title="List of basketball leagues">List of basketball leagues</a></li>

<li><a href="Timeline_of_women's_basketball" title="Timeline of women's basketball">Timeline of women's basketball</a></li>

<li><a href="ULEB" title="ULEB">ULEB</a>, Union des Ligues Européennes de Basket, in English Union of European Leagues of Basketball</li></ul>

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<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFNational_Basketball_Association2014" class="citation web cs1">National Basketball Association (2014). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150402130744/https://turnernbahangtime.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/2014-15-nba-rule-book.pdf">"Official Rules of the National Basketball Association"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://turnernbahangtime.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/2014-15-nba-rule-book.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on April 2, 2015<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 6,</span> 2015</span>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFInternational_Basketball_Federation2004" class="citation book cs1">International Basketball Federation (June 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051222011459/http://www.fiba.com/asp_includes/download.asp?file_id=327"><i>Official Basketball Rules</i></a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fiba.com/asp_includes/download.asp?file_id=327">the original</a> on December 22, 2005.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFReimer2005" class="citation journal cs1">Reimer, Anthony (June 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090129161522/http://www.fiba.com/asp_includes/download.asp?file_id=518">"FIBA vs North American Rules Comparison"</a>. <i>FIBA Assist</i> (14): <span class="nowrap">40–</span>44. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fiba.com/asp_includes/download.asp?file_id=518">the original</a> on January 29, 2009<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 11,</span> 2006</span>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFBonsor,_Kevin2003" class="citation web cs1">Bonsor, Kevin (March 10, 2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://health.howstuffworks.com/basketball2.htm">"How Basketball Works: Who's Who"</a>. <i>HowStuffWorks</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060101034243/http://health.howstuffworks.com/basketball2.htm">Archived</a> from the original on January 1, 2006<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 11,</span> 2006</span>.</cite></li></ul>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>

<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFAdolph_H2004" class="citation book cs1">Adolph H, Grundman (2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kHVGigFqcNkC&q=Basketball&pg=PP1"><i>The golden age of amateur basketball: the AAU Tournament, 1921–1968</i></a>. University of Nebraska Press. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-8032-7117-4</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFBatchelor2005" class="citation book cs1">Batchelor, Bob (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=v8r__pvCopgC&q=history%20of%20Basketball&pg=PP1"><i>Basketball in America: from the playgrounds to Jordan's game and beyond</i></a>. Routledge. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-7890-1613-3</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFBrown2007" class="citation book cs1">Brown, Donald H (2007). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=YJmsqtj-rh4C&q=history%20of%20Basketball&pg=PP1"><i>A Basketball Handbook</i></a>. AuthorHouse. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-1-4259-6190-9</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFColeman1991" class="citation book cs1">Coleman, Brian (1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=FMbE6oVIP-0C"><i>All You Wanted to Know About Basketball</i></a>. Sterling publishing. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>81-207-2576-X</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFGrundySusan_Shackelford2005" class="citation book cs1">Grundy, Pamela; Susan Shackelford (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=ZfS_3MUPBXoC&q=history%20of%20Basketball&pg=PP1"><i>Shattering the glass: the remarkable history of women's basketball</i></a>. New Press. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>1-56584-822-5</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFHerzog2003" class="citation book cs1">Herzog, Brad (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oH8uK4Sn_BoC&q=history%20of%20Basketball&pg=PP1"><i>Hoopmania: The Book of Basketball History and Trivia</i></a>. Rosen Pub. Group. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-8239-3697-X</bdi>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFNaismith1941" class="citation book cs1">Naismith, James (1941). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yDKtaGdhZncC&q=James%20Naismith&pg=PP1"><i>Basketball: its origin and development</i></a>. University of Nebraska Press. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-8032-8370-9</bdi>.</cite> <span class="cs1-hidden-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{cite book}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-hidden-error citation-comment">ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)</span></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFSimmons2009" class="citation book cs1">Simmons, Bill (2009). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bookofbasketball00simm"><i>The book of basketball: the NBA according to the sports guy</i></a></span>. Ballantine/ESPN Books. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-345-51176-8</bdi>. <q>history of Basketball.</q></cite></li></ul>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical">Historical</h3></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hoophall.com/">Basketball Hall of Fame – Springfield, MA</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://naismithbasketballfoundation.com/">National Basketball Foundation</a> – runs the Naismith Museum in Ontario</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_memories/pm_v2.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=0&ex=00000534&sl=4146&pos=1">Hometown Sports Heroes</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150402200708/http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_memories/pm_v2.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=0&ex=00000534&sl=4146&pos=1">Archived</a> April 2, 2015, at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Organizations">Organizations</h3></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100626134909/http://www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=BK">Basketball at the Olympic Games</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fiba.basketball">International Basketball Federation</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nba.com/">National Basketball Association</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.wnba.com/">Women's National Basketball Association</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cbahoopsonline.com/">Continental Basketball Association (oldest professional basketball league in the world)</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190330211322/http://www.cbahoopsonline.com/">Archived</a> March 30, 2019, at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nwba.org/">National Wheelchair Basketball Association</a></li></ul>

<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Other_sources">Other sources</h3></div>

<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/sports/basketball">"Basketball"</a>. <i><a href="Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i> Online.</li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.eurobasket.com/">Eurobasket website</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/">Basketball-Reference.com: Basketball Statistics, Analysis and History</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110222214347/http://www.basketball-reference.com/">Archived</a> February 22, 2011, at the <a href="Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100902041518/http://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques_JKL/Plaque_Lanark03.html">Ontario's Historical Plaques – Dr. James Naismith (1861–1939)</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Glossary_of_basketball_terms" title="Glossary of basketball terms">Glossary of terms</a></li>

<li><a href="Index_of_basketball-related_articles" title="Index of basketball-related articles">Index of articles</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_basketball_leagues" title="List of basketball leagues">Leagues</a></li></ul>

</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="History_of_basketball" title="History of basketball">History</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="James_Naismith" title="James Naismith">James Naismith</a></li>

<li><a href="Luther_Gulick_(physician)" title="Luther Gulick (physician)">Luther Gulick</a></li>

<li><a href="Protocol_of_Stockholm" title="Protocol of Stockholm">Protocol of Stockholm</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Variations_of_basketball" title="Variations of basketball">Variations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Slamball" class="mw-redirect" title="Slamball">Slamball</a></li>

<li><a href="Streetball" title="Streetball">Streetball</a></li>

<li><a href="Twenty-one_(basketball)" title="Twenty-one (basketball)">Twenty-one</a></li>

<li><a href="3x3_basketball" title="3x3 basketball">Three-on-three</a></li>

<li><a href="Wheelchair_basketball" title="Wheelchair basketball">Wheelchair</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="Official_(basketball)" title="Official (basketball)">Officials</a></li>

<li><a href="Turnover_(basketball)" title="Turnover (basketball)">Turnover</a></li>

<li><a href="Overtime_(sports)#Basketball" title="Overtime (sports)">Overtime</a></li>

<li><a href="Trent_Tucker_Rule" title="Trent Tucker Rule">Trent Tucker Rule</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Violation_(basketball)" title="Violation (basketball)">Violations</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>3 seconds

<ul><li><a href="Three_seconds_rule" title="Three seconds rule">Offense</a></li>

<li><a href="Defensive_three-second_violation" title="Defensive three-second violation">Defense</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Five-second_rule_(basketball)" title="Five-second rule (basketball)">5 seconds</a></li>

<li><a href="Time_line_(basketball)" title="Time line (basketball)">Time line (8/10 seconds)</a></li>

<li><a href="Basket_interference" title="Basket interference">Basket interference</a></li>

<li><a href="Carrying_(basketball)" title="Carrying (basketball)">Carrying</a></li>

<li><a href="Double_dribble" title="Double dribble">Double dribble</a></li>

<li><a href="Goaltending_(basketball)" title="Goaltending (basketball)">Goaltending</a></li>

<li><a href="Shot_clock" title="Shot clock">Shot clock</a></li>

<li><a href="Traveling_(basketball)" title="Traveling (basketball)">Traveling</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Flagrant_foul" title="Flagrant foul">Flagrant</a></li>

<li><a href="Personal_foul_(basketball)" title="Personal foul (basketball)">Personal</a></li>

<li><a href="Technical_foul" title="Technical foul">Technical</a></li>

<li><a href="Bonus_(basketball)" title="Bonus (basketball)">Bonus</a></li>

<li><a href="Three-point_play" title="Three-point play">Three-point play</a></li>

<li><a href="Four-point_play" title="Four-point play">Four-point play</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Game play</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Basketball_positions" title="Basketball positions">Positions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Coach_(basketball)" title="Coach (basketball)">Coach</a></li>

<li><a href="Sixth_man" title="Sixth man">Sixth man</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Point_guard" title="Point guard">Point</a></li>

<li><a href="Shooting_guard" title="Shooting guard">Shooting</a></li>

<li><a href="Combo_guard" title="Combo guard">Combo</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Forward</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Small_forward" title="Small forward">Small</a></li>

<li><a href="Power_forward" title="Power forward">Power</a>

<ul><li><a href="Stretch_four" title="Stretch four">Stretch</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Point_forward" title="Point forward">Point</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">Center</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Basketball_statistics" title="Basketball statistics">Statistics</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Rebound_(basketball)" title="Rebound (basketball)">Rebound</a></li>

<li><a href="Plus%E2%80%93minus_(sports)#Basketball" title="Plus–minus (sports)">Plus–minus</a></li>

<li><a href="Player_tracking_(National_Basketball_Association)" title="Player tracking (National Basketball Association)">Player tracking</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_winning_streaks" title="Basketball winning streaks">Winning streaks</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Point_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Point (basketball)">Point</a>

<ul><li><a href="Field_goal_(basketball)" title="Field goal (basketball)">Field goal</a>

<ul><li><a href="Three-point_field_goal" title="Three-point field goal">Three-pointer</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Assist_(basketball)" title="Assist (basketball)">Assist</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defense</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Block_(basketball)" title="Block (basketball)">Block</a></li>

<li><a href="Steal_(basketball)" title="Steal (basketball)">Steal</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Basketball_moves" title="Basketball moves">Moves</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Dribbling#Basketball" title="Dribbling">Dribble</a>

<ul><li><a href="Crossover_dribble" title="Crossover dribble">Crossover</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Screen_(sports)" title="Screen (sports)">Screen</a>

<li><a href="Slasher_(basketball)" title="Slasher (basketball)">Slashing</a></li></ul>

</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Shooting8" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Shooting</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Free_throw" title="Free throw">Free throw</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Fadeaway" title="Fadeaway">Fadeaway</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Layup" title="Layup">Layup</a>

<ul><li><a href="Finger_roll" title="Finger roll">Finger roll</a></li></ul></li>

<ul><li><a href="Posterized" title="Posterized">Posterized</a></li>

<li><a href="Alley-oop" title="Alley-oop">Alley-oop</a></li>

<li><a href="Backboard_shattering" title="Backboard shattering">Backboard shattering</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Half-court_shot" title="Half-court shot">Half-court shot</a></li>

<li><a href="Buzzer_beater" title="Buzzer beater">Buzzer beater</a></li>

<li><a href="Uncontested_shot" title="Uncontested shot">Uncontested</a></li></ul>

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</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Strategy</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Basketball_playbook" title="Basketball playbook">Playbook</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Practice</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Shootaround" title="Shootaround">Shootaround</a></li></ul>

</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Drills6" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Drills</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Mikan_drill" title="Mikan drill">Mikan</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>

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<li><a href="Gravity_(basketball)" title="Gravity (basketball)">Gravity</a></li></ul>

</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Continuity_offense" title="Continuity offense">Continuity</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Shuffle_offense" title="Shuffle offense">Shuffle</a></li>

<li><a href="Wheel_offense" title="Wheel offense">Wheel</a></li>

<li><a href="Four_corners_offense" title="Four corners offense">Four corners</a></li>

<li><a href="Triangle_offense" title="Triangle offense">Triangle</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Motion_offense" title="Motion offense">Motion</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Princeton_offense" title="Princeton offense">Princeton</a></li>

<li><a href="Dribble_drive_motion" title="Dribble drive motion">Dribble drive</a></li>

<li><a href="Fast_break" title="Fast break">Fast break</a>

<li><a href="Cherry_picking_(basketball)" title="Cherry picking (basketball)">Cherry picking</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Grinnell_System" title="Grinnell System">Grinnell System</a></li>

<li><a href="Nellie_Ball" title="Nellie Ball">Nellie Ball</a></li>

<li><a href="Small_ball_(basketball)" title="Small ball (basketball)">Small ball</a></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Defense</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Double_team" title="Double team">Double team</a></li>

<li><a href="Full-court_press" title="Full-court press">Full-court press</a></li>

<li><a href="Jordan_Rules" title="Jordan Rules">Jordan Rules</a></li></ul>

</div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Man-to-man_defense" title="Man-to-man defense">Man-to-man</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Zone_defense" title="Zone defense">Zone</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Match-up_zone_defense" title="Match-up zone defense">Match-up</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Hybrid</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Amoeba_defense" title="Amoeba defense">Amoeba</a></li>

<li><a href="Triangle-and-two_defense" title="Triangle-and-two defense">Triangle-and-two</a></li></ul>

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</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Equipment</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Backboard_(basketball)" title="Backboard (basketball)">Backboard</a></li>

<li><a href="Basket_(basketball)" title="Basket (basketball)">Basket</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Breakaway_rim" title="Breakaway rim">Breakaway</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_court" title="Basketball court">Court</a>

<ul><li><a href="Glass_basketball_court" title="Glass basketball court">Glass</a></li>

<li><a href="Half-court_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Half-court line">Half court</a></li>

<li><a href="Whistle" title="Whistle">Whistle</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Clothing</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Basketball_uniform" title="Basketball uniform">Uniform</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_sleeve" title="Basketball sleeve">Sleeve</a>

<ul><li><a href="Finger_sleeve" title="Finger sleeve">Finger</a></li>

<li><a href="Air_Jordan" title="Air Jordan">Air Jordan</a></li>

<li><a href="Chuck_Taylor_All-Stars" title="Chuck Taylor All-Stars">Chuck Taylor All-Stars</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="List_of_basketball_films" title="List of basketball films">Films</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_basketball_video_games" title="List of basketball video games">Video games</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_card" title="Basketball card">Trading cards</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div>

<ul><li><b><span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span></span></span> </span><a href="Portal%3ABasketball" title="Portal:Basketball">Basketball portal</a></b></li>

<li><a href="Outline_of_basketball" title="Outline of basketball">Outline of basketball</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Central_Board" title="FIBA Central Board"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">FIBA Central Board</span></a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Central_Board#FIBA_Executive_Committee" title="FIBA Central Board"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">FIBA Executive Committee</span></a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Congress" title="FIBA Congress"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">FIBA Congress</span></a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the Summer Olympics"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">Basketball at the Summer Olympics</span></a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_World_Olympic_Qualifying_Tournament" title="FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">World Olympic Qualifying Tournament</span></a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_men's_national_basketball_teams" title="List of men's national basketball teams"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">Men's national teams</span></a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_women's_national_basketball_teams" title="List of women's national basketball teams"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">Women's national teams</span></a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Rules_of_basketball" title="Rules of basketball">Rules</a></li>

<li><a href="History_of_basketball" title="History of basketball">History of basketball</a>

<ul><li><a href="Protocol_of_Stockholm" title="Protocol of Stockholm">Protocol of Stockholm</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Outline_of_basketball" title="Outline of basketball">Outline of basketball</a></li>

<li><a href="Variations_of_basketball" title="Variations of basketball">Variations of basketball</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Africa" title="FIBA Africa">FIBA Africa</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Americas" title="FIBA Americas">FIBA Americas</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Europe" title="FIBA Europe">FIBA Europe</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Oceania" title="FIBA Oceania">FIBA Oceania</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Basketball World Cup">FIBA Basketball World Cup</a>

<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Under-19_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup">Under-19</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Under-17_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup">Under-17</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_3x3_World_Cup" title="FIBA 3x3 World Cup">FIBA 3x3 World Cup</a>

<ul><li><a href="FIBA_3x3_U23_World_Cup" title="FIBA 3x3 U23 World Cup">Under-23</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_3x3_U18_World_Cup" title="FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup">Under-18</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Stankovi%C4%87_Continental_Champions'_Cup" title="FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup">FIBA Stanković Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Diamond_Ball" title="FIBA Diamond Ball">FIBA Diamond Ball</a> (former)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#000000; color:#FFFFFF; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DBC068, inset -2px -2px 0 #DBC068;;;width:1%">Women's national team tournaments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Women's_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup">FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup</a>

<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Under-19_Women's_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Under-19 Women's Basketball World Cup">Under-19</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Under-17_Women's_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Under-17 Women's Basketball World Cup">Under-17</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_3x3_World_Cup" title="FIBA 3x3 World Cup">FIBA 3x3 World Cup</a>

<ul><li><a href="FIBA_3x3_U23_World_Cup" title="FIBA 3x3 U23 World Cup">Under-23</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_3x3_U18_World_Cup" title="FIBA 3x3 U18 World Cup">Under-18</a></li></ul></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Intercontinental_Cup" title="FIBA Intercontinental Cup">FIBA Intercontinental Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_International_Christmas_Tournament" title="FIBA International Christmas Tournament">FIBA International Christmas Tournament</a> (former)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Women's_World_League" title="FIBA Women's World League">FIBA Women's World League</a> (former)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#000000; color:#FFFFFF; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DBC068, inset -2px -2px 0 #DBC068;;;width:1%"><a href="List_of_presidents_of_FIBA" title="List of presidents of FIBA"><span class="tmp-color" style="color:white">Presidents</span></a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="James_Naismith" title="James Naismith">James Naismith</a> (1936, honorary)</li>

<li><a href="L%C3%A9on_Bouffard" title="Léon Bouffard">Léon Bouffard</a> (1932–1948)</li>

<li><a href="Willard_N._Greim" title="Willard N. Greim">Willard N. Greim</a> (1948–1960)</li>

<li><a href="Antonio_dos_Reis_Carneiro" title="Antonio dos Reis Carneiro">Antonio dos Reis Carneiro</a> (1960–1968)</li>

<li><a href="Abdel_Moneim_Wahby" title="Abdel Moneim Wahby">Abdel Moneim Wahby</a> (1968–1976)</li>

<li><a href="Gonzalo_Puyat_II" title="Gonzalo Puyat II">Gonzalo Puyat II</a> (1976–1984)</li>

<li><a href="Robert_Busnel" title="Robert Busnel">Robert Busnel</a> (1984–1990)</li>

<li><a href="George_E._Killian" title="George E. Killian">George E. Killian</a> (1990–1998)</li>

<li>Abdoulaye Seye Moreau (1998–2002)</li>

<li><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A8%8B%E8%90%AC%E7%90%A6" class="extiw external" title="zh:程萬琦">Carl Men-Ky Ching</a> (2002–2006)</li>

<li>Robert Elphinston (2006–2010)</li>

<li><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvan_Mainini" class="extiw external" title="fr:Yvan Mainini">Yvan Mainini</a> (2010–2014)</li>

<li><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacio_Muratore" class="extiw external" title="es:Horacio Muratore">Horacio Muratore</a> (2014–2019)</li>

<li><a href="Hamane_Niang" title="Hamane Niang">Hamane Niang</a> (2019–2023)</li>

<li>Saud Ali Al Thani (2023-present)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Renato_William_Jones" title="Renato William Jones">Renato William Jones</a> (1932–1976)</li>

<li><a href="Borislav_Stankovi%C4%87" title="Borislav Stanković">Borislav Stanković</a> (1976–2002)</li>

<li><a href="Patrick_Baumann_(basketball)" title="Patrick Baumann (basketball)">Patrick Baumann</a> (2002–2018)</li>

<li><a href="Andreas_Zagklis" title="Andreas Zagklis">Andreas Zagklis</a> (2018–present)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="List_of_members_of_the_FIBA_Hall_of_Fame" title="List of members of the FIBA Hall of Fame">Members</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Awards" title="FIBA Awards">FIBA Awards</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Order_of_Merit" title="FIBA Order of Merit">FIBA Order of Merit</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA's_50_Greatest_Players_(1991)" title="FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991)">FIBA's 50 Greatest Players (1991)</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Men's_World_Ranking" title="FIBA Men's World Ranking">FIBA Men's World Ranking</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Women's_World_Ranking" title="FIBA Women's World Ranking">FIBA Women's World Ranking</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA%E2%80%93EuroLeague_dispute" title="FIBA–EuroLeague dispute">FIBA–EuroLeague dispute</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_eligibility_rules" title="FIBA eligibility rules">FIBA eligibility rules</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_Without_Borders" title="Basketball Without Borders">Basketball Without Borders</a></li>

<li><a href="Naismith_Trophy" title="Naismith Trophy">Naismith Trophy</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="List_of_men's_national_basketball_teams" title="List of men's national basketball teams">National teams</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the Summer Olympics">Olympics</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Basketball World Cup">World Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Summer_World_University_Games" title="Basketball at the Summer World University Games">World University Games</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Under-21_World_Championship" title="FIBA Under-21 World Championship">U-21 World Cup</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(defunct)</span></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Under-19_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Under-19 Basketball World Cup">U-19 World Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Under-17_Basketball_World_Cup" title="FIBA Under-17 Basketball World Cup">U-17 World Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="DBB_Albert_Schweitzer_Tournament" title="DBB Albert Schweitzer Tournament">DBB U-18 Invitational</a></li>

<li><a href="TBF_International_Under-16_Tournament" title="TBF International Under-16 Tournament">TBF U-16 Invitational</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Men's_World_Ranking" title="FIBA Men's World Ranking">World Ranking</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Africa" title="FIBA Africa">FIBA Africa</a> – <a href="AfroBasket" title="AfroBasket">AfroBasket</a>

<li><a href="AfroCan" title="AfroCan">AfroCan</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_African_Games" title="Basketball at the African Games">African Games</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_Africa_League" title="Basketball Africa League">Basketball Africa League</a> (BAL)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Americas" title="FIBA Americas">FIBA Americas</a> – <a href="FIBA_AmeriCup" title="FIBA AmeriCup">FIBA AmeriCup</a>

<li><a href="FIBA_CBC_Championship" title="FIBA CBC Championship">CBC Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="Centrobasket" title="Centrobasket">Centrobasket</a>

<li><a href="FIBA_COCABA_Championship" title="FIBA COCABA Championship">COCABA Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="Marchand_Continental_Championship_Cup" title="Marchand Continental Championship Cup">Marchand Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Pan_American_Games" title="Basketball at the Pan American Games">Pan American Games</a></li>

<li><a href="South_American_Basketball_Championship" title="South American Basketball Championship">South American Championship</a>

<li><a href="Basketball_Champions_League_Americas" title="Basketball Champions League Americas">Basketball Champions League Americas</a> (BCLA)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height: 1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #ffcc00;"><a href="FIBA_Asia" title="FIBA Asia">Asia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Asia" title="FIBA Asia">FIBA Asia</a> – <a href="FIBA_Asia_Cup" title="FIBA Asia Cup">FIBA Asia Cup</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(includes Oceania)</span>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Asian_Games" title="Basketball at the Asian Games">Asian Games</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Asia_Challenge" title="FIBA Asia Challenge">FIBA Asia Challenge</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_Champions_League_Asia" title="Basketball Champions League Asia">Basketball Champions League Asia</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Stankovi%C4%87_Continental_Champions'_Cup" title="FIBA Stanković Continental Champions' Cup">Stanković Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="EABA_Championship" title="EABA Championship">East Asian Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_East_Asian_Games" title="Basketball at the East Asian Games">East Asian Games</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(defunct)</span></li>

<li><a href="East_Asia_Super_League" title="East Asia Super League">East Asia Super League</a> (EASL)</li>

<li><a href="SABA_Championship" title="SABA Championship">SABA Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="SEABA_Championship" title="SEABA Championship">SEABA Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_South_Asian_Games" title="Basketball at the South Asian Games">South Asian Games</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_SEA_Games" title="Basketball at the SEA Games">Southeast Asian Games</a></li>

<li><a href="WABA_Championship" title="WABA Championship">West Asian Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_West_Asian_Games" title="Basketball at the West Asian Games">West Asian Games</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Jones_Cup" title="William Jones Cup">William Jones Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="ASEAN_Basketball_League" title="ASEAN Basketball League">ASEAN Basketball League</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(defunct)</span></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Europe" title="FIBA Europe">FIBA Europe</a> – <a href="EuroBasket" title="EuroBasket">EuroBasket</a>

<li><a href="Acropolis_International_Basketball_Tournament" title="Acropolis International Basketball Tournament">Acropolis Tournament</a></li>

<li><a href="Adecco_Cup" title="Adecco Cup">Adecco Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="Belgrade_Trophy" title="Belgrade Trophy">Belgrade Trophy</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_European_Championship_for_Small_Countries" title="FIBA European Championship for Small Countries">FIBA European Championship for Small Countries</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Games_of_the_Small_States_of_Europe" title="Basketball at the Games of the Small States of Europe">Games of the Small States of Europe</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_World_Cup_(Turkey)" title="Basketball World Cup (Turkey)">World Cup (Turkey)</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_Champions_League" title="Basketball Champions League">Basketball Champions League</a> (BCL)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height: 1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #009933;"><a href="FIBA_Oceania" title="FIBA Oceania">Oceania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Oceania" title="FIBA Oceania">FIBA Oceania</a> – <a href="FIBA_Oceania_Championship" title="FIBA Oceania Championship">FIBA Oceania Championship</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(defunct)</span>

<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Oceania_Youth_Tournament" title="FIBA Oceania Youth Tournament">U-20</a> <span style="font-size: 85%;">(defunct)</span></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Pacific_Games" title="Basketball at the Pacific Games">Pacific Games</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="FIBA_Intercontinental_Cup" title="FIBA Intercontinental Cup">FIBA Intercontinental Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="Arab_Basketball_Championship" title="Arab Basketball Championship">Arab Basketball Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Arab_Games" title="Basketball at the Arab Games">Arab Games</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Commonwealth_Games" title="Basketball at the Commonwealth Games">Commonwealth Games</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_Diamond_Ball" title="FIBA Diamond Ball">Diamond Ball</a></li>

<li><a href="FIBA_World_Olympic_Qualifying_Tournament" title="FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament">FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Lusofonia_Games" title="Basketball at the Lusofonia Games">Lusophone Games</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Mediterranean_Games" title="Basketball at the Mediterranean Games">Mediterranean Games</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><i><a href="FIBA_Women's_Asia_Cup" title="FIBA Women's Asia Cup">Asia Cup</a></i> (includes Oceania)

<li><a href="Discovery_Women's_Basketball_Invitational" title="Discovery Women's Basketball Invitational">Discovery Women's Basketball Invitational</a></li>

<li><a href="William_Jones_Cup" title="William Jones Cup">William Jones Cup</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="EuroBasket_Women" title="EuroBasket Women">EuroBasket Women</a></i>

<li><i><a href="FIBA_Women's_European_Championship_for_Small_Countries" title="FIBA Women's European Championship for Small Countries">European Championship for Small Countries</a></i></li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="FIBA_Oceania_Women's_Championship" title="FIBA Oceania Women's Championship">Oceania Championship</a></i> (<i>defunct</i>)

<li><i>Melanesia Cup</i></li>

<li><i>Polynesian Cup</i></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Basketball_at_the_African_Games" title="Basketball at the African Games">African Games</a></li>

<li><a href="Arab_Women's_Basketball_Championship" title="Arab Women's Basketball Championship">Arab Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Arab_Games" title="Basketball at the Arab Games">Arab Games</a></li>

<li>ASEAN University Games</li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Asian_Games" title="Basketball at the Asian Games">Asian Games</a></li>

<li>Bolivarian Games</li>

<li>Central Asian Games</li>

<li>Central American and Caribbean Games</li>

<li>Central American Games</li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Commonwealth_Games" title="Basketball at the Commonwealth Games">Commonwealth Games</a></li>

<li>Deaflympics</li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Mediterranean_Games" title="Basketball at the Mediterranean Games">Mediterranean Games</a></li>

<li>Micronesian Games</li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_European_Games" class="mw-redirect" title="Basketball at the European Games">European Games</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Games_of_the_Small_States_of_Europe" title="Basketball at the Games of the Small States of Europe">Games of the Small States of Europe</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Pacific_Games" title="Basketball at the Pacific Games">Pacific Games</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_Pan_American_Games" title="Basketball at the Pan American Games">Pan American Games</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_at_the_SEA_Games" title="Basketball at the SEA Games">Southeast Asian Games</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Algerian_Basketball_Championship" title="Algerian Basketball Championship">Algeria</a></li>

<li><a href="Angolan_Basketball_League" title="Angolan Basketball League">Angola</a>

<li><a href="Benin_Basketball_Super_League" title="Benin Basketball Super League">Benin</a></li>

<li><a href="Botswana_Basketball_League" title="Botswana Basketball League">Botswana</a></li>

<li><a href="Burundian_Basketball_Championship" title="Burundian Basketball Championship">Burundi</a></li>

<li><a href="Elite_Messieurs" title="Elite Messieurs">Cameroon</a></li>

<li><a href="Bangui_Basketball_League" title="Bangui Basketball League">Central African Republic</a></li>

<li><a href="Comoros_Basketball_Championship" title="Comoros Basketball Championship">Comoros</a></li>

<li><a href="Egyptian_Basketball_Premier_League" title="Egyptian Basketball Premier League">Egypt</a></li>

<li><a href="Ligue_1_(Guinea)" title="Ligue 1 (Guinea)">Guinea</a></li>

<li><a href="Ligue_d'Or" title="Ligue d'Or">Ivory Coast</a></li>

<li><a href="KBF_Premier_League" title="KBF Premier League">Kenya</a></li>

<li><a href="Liberia_Basketball_Association" title="Liberia Basketball Association">Liberia</a></li>

<li><a href="Libyan_Division_I_Basketball_League" title="Libyan Division I Basketball League">Libya</a></li>

<li><a href="Malagasy_N1A" class="mw-redirect" title="Malagasy N1A">Madagascar</a></li>

<li><a href="BASMAL_National_Championship" title="BASMAL National Championship">Malawi</a></li>

<li><a href="Division_Excellence" title="Division Excellence">Morocco</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Mo%C3%A7ambicana_de_Basquetebol" title="Liga Moçambicana de Basquetebol">Mozambique</a></li>

<li><a href="KBA_Premier_League" title="KBA Premier League">Namibia</a></li>

<li><a href="Nigerian_Premier_League_(basketball)" title="Nigerian Premier League (basketball)">Nigeria</a>

<li><a href="Rwanda_Basketball_League" title="Rwanda Basketball League">Rwanda</a>

<li><a href="Nationale_1_Masculin" title="Nationale 1 Masculin">Senegal</a>

<li><a href="Seychelles_Basketball_League" title="Seychelles Basketball League">Seychelles</a></li>

<li>South Africa

<li><a href="South_African_National_Basketball_Championship" title="South African National Basketball Championship">National</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="National_Basketball_League_(Tanzania)" title="National Basketball League (Tanzania)">Tanzania</a></li>

<li><a href="Championnat_Pro_A" title="Championnat Pro A">Tunisia</a>

<li><a href="National_Basketball_League_(Uganda)" title="National Basketball League (Uganda)">Uganda</a></li>

<li><a href="Zambia_Basketball_League" title="Zambia Basketball League">Zambia</a></li>

<li><a href="BUZ_National_Championship" title="BUZ National Championship">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Liga_Nacional_de_B%C3%A1squetbol" title="Liga Nacional de Básquetbol">Argentina</a>

<li><a href="Libobasquet" title="Libobasquet">Bolivia</a></li>

<li><a href="Novo_Basquete_Brasil" title="Novo Basquete Brasil">Brazil</a>

<li><a href="National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">Canada</a>

<ul><li><a href="NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Nacional_de_B%C3%A1squetbol_de_Chile" title="Liga Nacional de Básquetbol de Chile">Chile</a></li>

<li><a href="Baloncesto_Profesional_Colombiano" title="Baloncesto Profesional Colombiano">Colombia</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Nacional_de_Baloncesto" title="Liga Nacional de Baloncesto">Dominican Republic</a> (<a href="Torneo_Superior_de_Baloncesto" title="Torneo Superior de Baloncesto">Torneo Superior de Baloncesto</a>)</li>

<li><a href="Liga_Ecuatoriana_de_Baloncesto" title="Liga Ecuatoriana de Baloncesto">Ecuador</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Mayor_de_Baloncesto" title="Liga Mayor de Baloncesto">El Salvador</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Nacional_de_Baloncesto_Profesional" title="Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional">Mexico</a>

<ul><li><a href="Circuito_de_Baloncesto_de_la_Costa_del_Pac%C3%ADfico" title="Circuito de Baloncesto de la Costa del Pacífico">CIBACOPA</a></li>

<li><a href="NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Superior_de_Baloncesto_(Nicaragua)" title="Liga Superior de Baloncesto (Nicaragua)">Nicaragua</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Profesional_de_Baloncesto_(Panama)" title="Liga Profesional de Baloncesto (Panama)">Panama</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Nacional_de_B%C3%A1squetbol_(Paraguay)" title="Liga Nacional de Básquetbol (Paraguay)">Paraguay</a></li>

<li><a href="Baloncesto_Superior_Nacional" title="Baloncesto Superior Nacional">Puerto Rico</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">United States</a>

<li><a href="NBA_G_League" title="NBA G League">NBA G League</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Uruguaya_de_B%C3%A1squetbol" title="Liga Uruguaya de Básquetbol">Uruguay</a></li>

<li><a href="Superliga_Profesional_de_Baloncesto" title="Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto">Venezuela</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Bahraini_Premier_League_(basketball)" title="Bahraini Premier League (basketball)">Bahrain</a></li>

<li><a href="Chinese_Basketball_Association" title="Chinese Basketball Association">China</a>

<li><a href="Indian_National_Basketball_League" title="Indian National Basketball League">India</a></li>

<li><a href="Indonesian_Basketball_League" title="Indonesian Basketball League">Indonesia</a></li>

<li><a href="B.League" title="B.League">Japan</a></li>

<li><a href="Jordanian_Premier_Basketball_League" title="Jordanian Premier Basketball League">Jordan</a></li>

<li><a href="Kazakhstan_Basketball_Championship" title="Kazakhstan Basketball Championship">Kazakhstan</a></li>

<li><a href="Kuwaiti_Division_I_Basketball_League" title="Kuwaiti Division I Basketball League">Kuwait</a></li>

<li><a href="Lebanese_Basketball_League" title="Lebanese Basketball League">Lebanon</a></li>

<li><a href="Malaysia_National_Basketball_League" title="Malaysia National Basketball League">Malaysia</a></li>

<li><a href="Mongolian_National_Basketball_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="Mongolian National Basketball Association">Mongolia</a></li>

<li>Philippines

<ul><li><a href="PBA_D-League" title="PBA D-League">PBA D-League</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="National_Basketball_League_(Philippines)" title="National Basketball League (Philippines)">NBL–Pilipinas</a></li>

<li><a href="Qatari_Basketball_League" title="Qatari Basketball League">Qatar</a></li>

<li><a href="Saudi_Basketball_League" title="Saudi Basketball League">Saudi Arabia</a></li>

<li><a href="Pro-Am_Singapore_Basketball_League" title="Pro-Am Singapore Basketball League">Singapore</a></li>

<li><a href="Korean_Basketball_League" title="Korean Basketball League">South Korea</a></li>

<li><a href="Syrian_Basketball_League" title="Syrian Basketball League">Syria</a></li>

<li>Taiwan

<ul><li><a href="P._League%2B" title="P. League+">P. League+</a></li>

<li><a href="Thailand_Basketball_League" title="Thailand Basketball League">Thailand</a></li>

<li><a href="UAE_National_Basketball_League" title="UAE National Basketball League">United Arab Emirates</a></li>

<li><a href="Vietnam_Basketball_Association" title="Vietnam Basketball Association">Vietnam</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="Albanian_Basketball_League" title="Albanian Basketball League">Albania</a>

<li><a href="Austrian_Basketball_Superliga" title="Austrian Basketball Superliga">Austria</a>

<li><a href="Armenia_Basketball_League_A" title="Armenia Basketball League A">Armenia</a></li>

<li><a href="Azerbaijan_Basketball_League" title="Azerbaijan Basketball League">Azerbaijan</a></li>

<li><a href="Belarusian_Premier_League_(basketball)" title="Belarusian Premier League (basketball)">Belarus</a></li>

<li><a href="BNXT_League" title="BNXT League">Belgium</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_Championship_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a>

<li><a href="National_Basketball_League_(Bulgaria)" title="National Basketball League (Bulgaria)">Bulgaria</a></li>

<li><a href="HT_Premijer_liga" class="mw-redirect" title="HT Premijer liga">Croatia</a>

<li><a href="Cyprus_Basketball_Division_A" title="Cyprus Basketball Division A">Cyprus</a>

<ul><li><a href="Erkekler_Basketbol_S%C3%BCper_Ligi" title="Erkekler Basketbol Süper Ligi">North</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="National_Basketball_League_(Czech_Republic)" title="National Basketball League (Czech Republic)">Czech Republic</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketligaen" title="Basketligaen">Denmark</a></li>

<li><a href="Korvpalli_Meistriliiga" title="Korvpalli Meistriliiga">Estonia</a>

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<li><a href="Georgian_Superliga" title="Georgian Superliga">Georgia</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_Bundesliga" title="Basketball Bundesliga">Germany</a>

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<ul><li><a href="National_Basketball_League_(England)" title="National Basketball League (England)">England</a></li>

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<li><a href="Greek_Basketball_League" title="Greek Basketball League">Greece</a>

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<li><a href="%C3%9Arvalsdeild_karla_(basketball)" title="Úrvalsdeild karla (basketball)">Iceland</a></li>

<li><a href="Super_League_(Ireland)" title="Super League (Ireland)">Ireland</a></li>

<li><a href="Israeli_Basketball_Premier_League" title="Israeli Basketball Premier League">Israel</a>

<li><a href="Lega_Basket_Serie_A" title="Lega Basket Serie A">Italy</a>

<li><a href="Kosovo_Basketball_Superleague" title="Kosovo Basketball Superleague">Kosovo</a>

<li><a href="Latvijas_Basketbola_l%C4%ABga" title="Latvijas Basketbola līga">Latvia</a></li>

<li><a href="Lietuvos_krep%C5%A1inio_lyga" title="Lietuvos krepšinio lyga">Lithuania</a>

<li><a href="Luxembourg_Basketball_League" title="Luxembourg Basketball League">Luxembourg</a></li>

<li><a href="Moldovan_National_Division_(basketball)" title="Moldovan National Division (basketball)">Moldova</a></li>

<li><a href="Prva_A_Liga" title="Prva A Liga">Montenegro</a></li>

<li><a href="BNXT_League" title="BNXT League">Netherlands</a></li>

<li><a href="Macedonian_First_League_(basketball)" title="Macedonian First League (basketball)">North Macedonia</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketligaen_Norge" title="Basketligaen Norge">Norway</a></li>

<li><a href="Polish_Basketball_League" title="Polish Basketball League">Poland</a>

<li><a href="Liga_Portuguesa_de_Basquetebol" title="Liga Portuguesa de Basquetebol">Portugal</a>

<li><a href="Liga_Na%C8%9Bional%C4%83_(men's_basketball)" title="Liga Națională (men's basketball)">Romania</a>

<li><a href="VTB_United_League" title="VTB United League">Russia</a>

<li><a href="Basketball_League_of_Serbia" title="Basketball League of Serbia">Serbia</a>

<li><a href="Slovak_Basketball_League" title="Slovak Basketball League">Slovakia</a></li>

<li><a href="Slovenian_Basketball_League" title="Slovenian Basketball League">Slovenia</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_ACB" title="Liga ACB">Spain</a>

<li><a href="Swedish_Basketball_League" title="Swedish Basketball League">Sweden</a>

<li><a href="Swiss_Basketball_League" title="Swiss Basketball League">Switzerland</a>

<li><a href="Basketbol_S%C3%BCper_Ligi" title="Basketbol Süper Ligi">Turkey</a>

<li><a href="Ukrainian_Basketball_SuperLeague" title="Ukrainian Basketball SuperLeague">Ukraine</a>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #009933;"><a href="FIBA_Oceania" title="FIBA Oceania">Oceania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="National_Basketball_League_(Australia)" title="National Basketball League (Australia)">Australia</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Basketball_League_(New_Zealand)" title="National Basketball League (New Zealand)">New Zealand</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #252525;">International<br>tournaments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Basketball_Africa_League" title="Basketball Africa League">Basketball Africa League</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Arab_Club_Basketball_Championship" title="Arab Club Basketball Championship">Arab Club Basketball Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="East_Africa_Basketball_Championship_Cup" title="East Africa Basketball Championship Cup">East Africa Basketball Championship Cup</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Americas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Basketball_Champions_League_Americas" title="Basketball Champions League Americas">FIBA Champions League Americas</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Sudamericana_de_Baloncesto" title="Liga Sudamericana de Baloncesto">FIBA South American League</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Asia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Basketball_Champions_League_Asia" title="Basketball Champions League Asia">Basketball Champions League Asia</a></i></li>

<li><a href="East_Asia_Super_League" title="East Asia Super League">East Asia Super League</a></li>

<li><a href="West_Asia_Super_League" class="mw-redirect" title="West Asia Super League">West Asia Super League</a></li>

<li><a href="Arab_Club_Basketball_Championship" title="Arab Club Basketball Championship">Arab Club Basketball Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="AsiaBasket" title="AsiaBasket">AsiaBasket</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Europe</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="EuroLeague" title="EuroLeague">EuroLeague</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="EuroCup_Basketball" title="EuroCup Basketball">EuroCup</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Basketball_Champions_League" title="Basketball Champions League">FIBA Champions League</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="FIBA_Europe_Cup" title="FIBA Europe Cup">FIBA Europe Cup</a></i></li>

<li><a href="ABA_League" title="ABA League">Adriatic League</a>

<li><a href="Alpe_Adria_Cup" title="Alpe Adria Cup">Alpe Adria Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="Balkan_International_Basketball_League" title="Balkan International Basketball League">Balkan League</a></li>

<li>Caucasus Basketball League</li>

<li><a href="European_North_Basketball_League" title="European North Basketball League">European North Basketball League</a></li>

<li><a href="Latvian%E2%80%93Estonian_Basketball_League" title="Latvian–Estonian Basketball League">Latvian–Estonian Basketball League</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Unike" title="Liga Unike">Liga Unike</a></li>

<li><a href="VTB_United_League" title="VTB United League">VTB United League</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #252525;">Defunct<br>tournaments</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="FIBA_Africa_Basketball_League" title="FIBA Africa Basketball League">FIBA Africa Basketball League</a></i></li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="FIBA_Americas_League" title="FIBA Americas League">FIBA Americas League</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Campeonato_Panamericano_de_Clubes_de_B%C3%A1squetbol" title="Campeonato Panamericano de Clubes de Básquetbol">Pan American Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="Campeonato_Sudamericano_de_Clubes_Campeones_de_B%C3%A1squetbol" title="Campeonato Sudamericano de Clubes Campeones de Básquetbol">South American Championship</a></li>

<li><a href="Torneo_Interligas_de_B%C3%A1squet" title="Torneo Interligas de Básquet">Torneo InterLigas</a></li>

<li><a href="Campeonato_Argentino_de_Clubes_de_B%C3%A1squet" title="Campeonato Argentino de Clubes de Básquet">Argentina</a></li>

<li><a href="Campeonato_Brasileiro_de_Basquete" title="Campeonato Brasileiro de Basquete">Brazil</a></li>

<li><a href="Divisi%C3%B3n_Mayor_del_B%C3%A1squetbol_de_Chile" title="División Mayor del Básquetbol de Chile">Chile</a></li>

<li>Canada

<li>United States

<li><a href="Campeonato_Uruguayo_Federal_de_B%C3%A1squetbol" title="Campeonato Uruguayo Federal de Básquetbol">Uruguay</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="ABA_Club_Championship" title="ABA Club Championship">ABA Club Championship</a></i></li>

<li><a href="ASEAN_Basketball_League" title="ASEAN Basketball League">ASEAN League</a></li>

<li><i><a href="WABA_Champions_Cup" title="WABA Champions Cup">WABA Champions Cup</a></i></li>

<li>Japan

<ul><li><a href="Bj_league" title="Bj league">bj league</a></li>

<li>Taiwan

<ul><li><a href="Chinese_Basketball_Alliance" title="Chinese Basketball Alliance">Chinese Basketball Alliance</a></li>

<li><a href="T1_League" title="T1 League">T1 League</a></li></ul></li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="2000%E2%80%9301_FIBA_SuproLeague" title="2000–01 FIBA SuproLeague">SuproLeague</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="FIBA_Saporta_Cup" title="FIBA Saporta Cup">Saporta Cup</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="FIBA_Kora%C4%87_Cup" title="FIBA Korać Cup">Korać Cup</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="FIBA_EuroChallenge" title="FIBA EuroChallenge">EuroChallenge</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="FIBA_EuroCup_Challenge" title="FIBA EuroCup Challenge">EuroCup Challenge</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Baltic_Basketball_League" title="Baltic Basketball League">Baltic League</a></li>

<li><a href="Central_European_Basketball_League" title="Central European Basketball League">Central European League</a></li>

<li><a href="Latin_Cup_(basketball)" title="Latin Cup (basketball)">Latin Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="North_European_Basketball_League" title="North European Basketball League">North European League</a></li>

<li><a href="Czechoslovak_Basketball_League" title="Czechoslovak Basketball League">Czechoslovakia</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Basketball_League_(England)" title="National Basketball League (England)">England</a></li>

<li><a href="Russian_Professional_Basketball_League" title="Russian Professional Basketball League">Russia</a></li>

<li><a href="YUBA_League" title="YUBA League">Serbia and Montenegro</a>

<li><a href="Liga_Espa%C3%B1ola_de_Baloncesto_(1957%E2%80%931983)" title="Liga Española de Baloncesto (1957–1983)">Spain</a></li>

<li><a href="USSR_Premier_Basketball_League" title="USSR Premier Basketball League">Soviet Union</a></li>

<li><a href="Turkish_Basketball_Championship" title="Turkish Basketball Championship">Turkey</a></li>

<li><a href="First_Federal_Basketball_League" title="First Federal Basketball League">Yugoslavia</a>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>

<ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Category"></span></span> Category</li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

<div class="navbox-styles"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Women&#039;s_basketball_leagues357" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Women&#039;s_basketball_leagues357" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="Women's_basketball" title="Women's basketball">Women's basketball</a> <a href="List_of_basketball_leagues" title="List of basketball leagues">leagues</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>

<dd><a href="FIBA_Women's_World_League" title="FIBA Women's World League">Women's World League</a> (defunct)</dd>

<dd>Other leagues</dd></dl>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #999999;"><a href="FIBA_Africa" title="FIBA Africa">Africa</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Algerian_Women's_Basketball_Championship" title="Algerian Women's Basketball Championship">Algeria</a></li>

<li><a href="Angola_Women's_Basketball_League" title="Angola Women's Basketball League">Angola</a></li>

<li>Benin</li>

<li>Botswana</li>

<li>Burkina Faso</li>

<li>Burundi</li>

<li>Cameroon</li>

<li>Cape Verde</li>

<li>Central African Republic</li>

<li>DR Congo</li>

<li>Egypt</li>

<li>Gabon</li>

<li>Gambia</li>

<li>Ghana</li>

<li>Ivory Coast</li>

<li>Kenya</li>

<li>Lesotho</li>

<li>Liberia</li>

<li>Libya</li>

<li>Madagascar</li>

<li><a href="Moroccan_Women's_Basketball_Championship" title="Moroccan Women's Basketball Championship">Morocco</a></li>

<li>Mozambique</li>

<li>Namibia</li>

<li><a href="Zenith_Women_Basketball_League" title="Zenith Women Basketball League">Nigeria</a></li>

<li>South Africa</li>

<li><a href="Nationale_1_Feminin" title="Nationale 1 Feminin">Senegal</a></li>

<li>Seychelles</li>

<li>Swaziland</li>

<li><a href="Tunisian_Women's_Division_I_Basketball_League" title="Tunisian Women's Division I Basketball League">Tunisia</a></li>

<li>Uganda</li>

<li>Zimbabwe</li></ul>

<ul><li>Argentina</li>

<li>Brazil</li>

<li>Canada</li>

<li>Chile</li>

<li>Colombia</li>

<li>Costa Rica</li>

<li>Dominica</li>

<li>Dominican Republic</li>

<li>Ecuador</li>

<li><a href="Liga_Nacional_de_Baloncesto_Profesional_Femenil" title="Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional Femenil">Mexico</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Nacional_de_B%C3%A1squetbol_Femenino" title="Liga Nacional de Básquetbol Femenino">Paraguay</a></li>

<li><a href="Baloncesto_Superior_Nacional_Femenino" title="Baloncesto Superior Nacional Femenino">Puerto Rico</a></li>

<li><a href="Women's_National_Basketball_Association" title="Women's National Basketball Association">United States</a>

<ul><li>3-on-3: <a href="Unrivaled_(basketball)" title="Unrivaled (basketball)">Unrivaled</a></li>

<li>U.S. Minor: <a href="Women's_Basketball_Development_Association" title="Women's Basketball Development Association">WBDA</a></li>

<li><a href="Women's_Liga_Uruguaya_de_Basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Women's Liga Uruguaya de Basketball">Uruguay</a></li>

<li>Venezuela</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #ffcc00;"><a href="FIBA_Asia" title="FIBA Asia">Asia</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>Bahrain</li>

<li><a href="Women's_Chinese_Basketball_Association" title="Women's Chinese Basketball Association">China</a></li>

<li><a href="National_Basketball_Championship_(women)" title="National Basketball Championship (women)">India</a></li>

<li>Indonesia</li>

<li><a href="Women's_Japan_Basketball_League" title="Women's Japan Basketball League">Japan</a></li>

<li>Jordan</li>

<li>Kazakhstan</li>

<li>Kyrgyzstan</li>

<li>Kuwait</li>

<li><a href="Lebanese_Basketball_League" title="Lebanese Basketball League">Lebanon</a></li>

<li>Malaysia</li>

<li>Mongolia</li>

<li>Philippines

<ul><li><a href="Women's_Maharlika_Pilipinas_Basketball_League" title="Women's Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League">WMPBL</a></li>

<li>Qatar</li>

<li>Saudi Arabia</li>

<li>Singapore</li>

<li><a href="Women's_Korean_Basketball_League" title="Women's Korean Basketball League">South Korea</a></li>

<li>Syria</li>

<li><a href="Women's_Super_Basketball_League" title="Women's Super Basketball League">Taiwan</a></li>

<li>Thailand</li>

<li>United Arab Emirates</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #3399cc;"><a href="FIBA_Europe" title="FIBA Europe">Europe</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Albanian_A-1_League_(Women)" class="mw-redirect" title="Albanian A-1 League (Women)">Albania</a></li>

<li>Armenia</li>

<li><a href="Austrian_Women's_Basketball_Bundesliga" title="Austrian Women's Basketball Bundesliga">Austria</a></li>

<li>Belarus</li>

<li><a href="Belgian_Women's_Basketball_League" title="Belgian Women's Basketball League">Belgium</a></li>

<li><a href="Basketball_Championship_of_Bosnia_and_Herzegovina_(Women)" class="mw-redirect" title="Basketball Championship of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Women)">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></li>

<li><a href="Bulgarian_Women's_Basketball_Championship" title="Bulgarian Women's Basketball Championship">Bulgaria</a></li>

<li><a href="Croatian_First_Women's_Basketball_League" title="Croatian First Women's Basketball League">Croatia</a></li>

<li><a href="Cyprus_Women's_Basketball_Division_A" title="Cyprus Women's Basketball Division A">Cyprus</a>

<ul><li><a href="Kad%C4%B1nlar_Basketbol_Ligi" title="Kadınlar Basketbol Ligi">North</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Czech_Women's_Basketball_League" title="Czech Women's Basketball League">Czech Republic</a></li>

<li><a href="Dameligaen" class="mw-redirect" title="Dameligaen">Denmark</a></li>

<li><a href="Women's_Korvpalli_Meistriliiga" title="Women's Korvpalli Meistriliiga">Estonia</a></li>

<li><a href="Naisten_Korisliiga" title="Naisten Korisliiga">Finland</a></li>

<li><a href="Ligue_F%C3%A9minine_de_Basketball" title="Ligue Féminine de Basketball">France</a></li>

<li><a href="Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga" title="Damen-Basketball-Bundesliga">Germany</a></li>

<li><a href="Women's_British_Basketball_League" title="Women's British Basketball League">Great Britain</a>

<dl><dd><a href="English_Women's_Basketball_League" title="English Women's Basketball League">England</a></dd>

<dd><a href="Scottish_Basketball_Championship_Women" title="Scottish Basketball Championship Women">Scotland</a></dd></dl></li>

<li><a href="Greek_Women's_Basketball_League" title="Greek Women's Basketball League">Greece</a>

<ul><li><a href="A2_National_Women's_Basketball" title="A2 National Women's Basketball">2nd division</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Nemzeti_Bajnoks%C3%A1g_I/A_(women's_basketball)" title="Nemzeti Bajnokság I/A (women's basketball)">Hungary</a></li>

<li><a href="%C3%9Arvalsdeild_kvenna_(basketball)" title="Úrvalsdeild kvenna (basketball)">Iceland</a></li>

<li><a href="Women's_Super_League_(basketball)" title="Women's Super League (basketball)">Ireland</a></li>

<li><a href="Israeli_Female_Basketball_Premier_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Israeli Female Basketball Premier League">Israel</a></li>

<li><a href="Lega_Basket_Femminile" title="Lega Basket Femminile">Italy</a></li>

<li>Kosovo</li>

<li><a href="LSBL_Championships" title="LSBL Championships">Latvia</a></li>

<li><a href="Lithuanian_Women's_Basketball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Lithuanian Women's Basketball League">Lithuania</a></li>

<li><a href="Nationale_1_Dames" title="Nationale 1 Dames">Luxembourg</a></li>

<li>Malta</li>

<li>Moldova</li>

<li><a href="First_A_Women's_Basketball_League_of_Montenegro" title="First A Women's Basketball League of Montenegro">Montenegro</a></li>

<li><a href="Dutch_Women's_Basketball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Dutch Women's Basketball League">Netherlands</a></li>

<li>Norway</li>

<li><a href="First_Women's_Basketball_League_of_North_Macedonia" title="First Women's Basketball League of North Macedonia">North Macedonia</a></li>

<li><a href="Basket_Liga_Kobiet" title="Basket Liga Kobiet">Poland</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Feminina_de_Basquetebol" title="Liga Feminina de Basquetebol">Portugal</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Na%C8%9Bional%C4%83_(women's_basketball)" title="Liga Națională (women's basketball)">Romania</a></li>

<li><a href="Russian_Women's_Basketball_Premier_League" title="Russian Women's Basketball Premier League">Russia</a></li>

<li><a href="First_Women's_Basketball_League_of_Serbia" title="First Women's Basketball League of Serbia">Serbia</a></li>

<li><a href="Slovak_Women's_Basketball_Extraliga" title="Slovak Women's Basketball Extraliga">Slovakia</a></li>

<li><a href="Slovenian_Women's_Basketball_League" title="Slovenian Women's Basketball League">Slovenia</a></li>

<li><a href="Liga_Femenina_de_Baloncesto" title="Liga Femenina de Baloncesto">Spain</a>

<li><a href="Basketligan_dam" title="Basketligan dam">Sweden</a></li>

<li><a href="Swiss_Women's_Basketball_Championship" title="Swiss Women's Basketball Championship">Switzerland</a></li>

<li><a href="Women's_Basketball_Super_League" title="Women's Basketball Super League">Turkey</a>

<ul><li><a href="Turkish_Women's_Basketball_League" title="Turkish Women's Basketball League">2nd division</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Ukrainian_Women's_Basketball_SuperLeague" title="Ukrainian Women's Basketball SuperLeague">Ukraine</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em;box-shadow: inset -5px 0 0 0 #009933;"><a href="FIBA_Oceania" title="FIBA Oceania">Oceania</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Women's_National_Basketball_League" title="Women's National Basketball League">Australia</a></li>

<li><a href="Tauihi_Basketball_Aotearoa" title="Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa">New Zealand</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em"><a href="FIBA" title="FIBA">International<br>tournaments</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Africa</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Women's_Basketball_League_Africa" title="Women's Basketball League Africa">Women's Basketball League Africa</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Arab_Women's_Club_Basketball_Championship" title="Arab Women's Club Basketball Championship">Arab Club Championship</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="Women's_Basketball_League_Americas" title="Women's Basketball League Americas">Women's Basketball League Americas</a></i></li>

<li><a href="South_American_Women's_Basketball_League" title="South American Women's Basketball League">South American Basketball League</a></li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="Women's_Basketball_League_Asia" title="Women's Basketball League Asia">Women's Basketball League Asia</a></i></li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="EuroLeague_Women" title="EuroLeague Women">EuroLeague Women</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="EuroCup_Women" title="EuroCup Women">EuroCup Women</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="FIBA_Europe_SuperCup_Women" title="FIBA Europe SuperCup Women">Europe SuperCup</a></i></li>

<li><a href="WABA_League" title="WABA League">Adriatic League</a></li>

<li><a href="Baltic_Women's_Basketball_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Baltic Women's Basketball League">Baltic League</a></li>

<li>Central Europe League</li>

<li><a href="European_Women's_Basketball_League" title="European Women's Basketball League">European League</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;line-height:1em">Defunct leagues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Americas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i>Central American Championships</i></li></ul>

<ul><li><i><a href="Ronchetti_Cup" title="Ronchetti Cup">Ronchetti Cup</a></i></li>

<li><a href="Vojko_Herksel_Cup" title="Vojko Herksel Cup">Vojko Herksel Cup</a></li>

<li><a href="Middle_European_League" title="Middle European League">Middle European League</a></li>

<li><a href="WBFAL" title="WBFAL">Adriatic Friendly League</a></li>

<li><a href="Czechoslovak_Women's_Basketball_Championship" title="Czechoslovak Women's Basketball Championship">Czechoslovakia</a></li>

<li><a href="GDR_championship_women's_basketball" title="GDR championship women's basketball">East Germany</a></li>

<li><a href="Soviet_Women's_Basketball_Championship" title="Soviet Women's Basketball Championship">Soviet Union</a></li>

<li>Serbia and Montenegro</li>

<li><a href="Yugoslav_Women's_Basketball_League" title="Yugoslav Women's Basketball League">Yugoslavia</a></li>

<li><a href="British_Women's_Basketball_Championship" title="British Women's Basketball Championship">United Kingdom (old league)</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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<ul><li><a href="Sport" title="Sport">Sport</a></li>

<li><a href="Sports_governing_body" title="Sports governing body">Governing bodies</a></li>

<li><a href="National_sport" title="National sport">National sport</a></li>

<li><a href="Lists_of_sportspeople" title="Lists of sportspeople">Sportspeople</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Ball_sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Ball sports">Ball sports</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Invasion_games" class="mw-redirect" title="Invasion games">Invasion games</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Basket sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Beach_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Beach basketball">beach</a></li>

<li><a href="Water_basketball" title="Water basketball">water</a></li>

<li><a href="Wheelchair_basketball" title="Wheelchair basketball">wheelchair</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Cestoball" title="Cestoball">Cestoball</a></li>

<li><a href="Dueball" title="Dueball">Dueball</a></li>

<li><a href="Korfball" title="Korfball">Korfball</a></li>

<li><a href="Netball" title="Netball">Netball</a>

<li><a href="Indoor_netball" title="Indoor netball">indoor</a></li>

<li><a href="Wheelchair_netball" title="Wheelchair netball">wheelchair</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Rezball" title="Rezball">Rezball</a></li>

<li><a href="Ringball" title="Ringball">Ringball</a></li>

<li><a href="SlamBall" title="SlamBall">SlamBall</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Football" title="Football">Football</a><br>codes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Australian_rules_football" title="Australian rules football">Australian rules football</a>

<li><a href="Lightning_football" title="Lightning football">Lightning football</a></li>

<li><a href="Metro_footy" class="mw-redirect" title="Metro footy">Metro footy</a></li>

<li><a href="Rec_footy" title="Rec footy">Rec footy</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Gaelic_football" title="Gaelic football">Gaelic football</a>

<ul><li><a href="Ladies'_Gaelic_football" title="Ladies' Gaelic football">Ladies'</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Circle_rules_football" title="Circle rules football">Circle rules football</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Association_football" title="Association football">Association football</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Association_football" title="Association football">Association football</a>

<ul><li><a href="Amputee_football" title="Amputee football">amputee</a></li>

<li><a href="Beach_soccer" title="Beach soccer">beach soccer</a></li>

<li><a href="Freestyle_football" title="Freestyle football">freestyle</a></li>

<li><a href="Futsal" title="Futsal">futsal</a></li>

<li><a href="Indoor_soccer" title="Indoor soccer">Indoor soccer</a></li>

<li><a href="Minifootball" title="Minifootball">minifootball</a></li>

<li><a href="Paralympic_football" title="Paralympic football">paralympic</a></li>

<li><a href="Powerchair_football" title="Powerchair football">powerchair</a></li>

<li><a href="Roller_soccer" title="Roller soccer">roller soccer</a></li>

<li><a href="Socca" title="Socca">socca</a></li>

<li><a href="Street_football_(association_football)" title="Street football (association football)">street</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Gridiron_football" title="Gridiron football">Gridiron</a> codes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="American_football" title="American football">American football</a>

<ul><li><a href="Eight-man_football" title="Eight-man football">eight-man</a></li>

<li><a href="Sprint_football" title="Sprint football">sprint</a></li>

<li><a href="Touch_football_(American)" title="Touch football (American)">touch</a></li>

<li><a href="Wheelchair_Football_(American)" title="Wheelchair Football (American)">wheelchair</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Arena_football" title="Arena football">Arena football</a></li>

<li><a href="Canadian_football" title="Canadian football">Canadian football</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_hybrid_sports" title="List of hybrid sports">Hybrid</a> codes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Austus" title="Austus">Austus</a></li>

<li><a href="International_rules_football" title="International rules football">International rules football</a></li>

<li><a href="Samoa_rules" title="Samoa rules">Samoa rules</a></li>

<li><a href="Speedball_(American_ball_game)" title="Speedball (American ball game)">Speedball</a></li>

<li><a href="Swedish_football_(code)" title="Swedish football (code)">Swedish football</a></li>

<li><a href="Universal_football" title="Universal football">Universal football</a></li>

<li><a href="Volata" title="Volata">Volata</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Medieval_football" title="Medieval football">Medieval/historical<br>football</a> codes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Calcio_storico_fiorentino" title="Calcio storico fiorentino">Calcio fiorentino</a></li>

<li><a href="Camping_(game)" title="Camping (game)">Camping</a></li>

<li><a href="Cnapan" title="Cnapan">Cnapan</a></li>

<li><a href="Cornish_hurling" title="Cornish hurling">Cornish hurling</a></li>

<li><a href="Harpastum" title="Harpastum">Harpastum</a></li>

<li><a href="Kemari" title="Kemari">Kemari</a></li>

<li><a href="La_soule" title="La soule">La soule</a></li>

<li><a href="Lelo_burti" title="Lelo burti">Lelo burti</a></li>

<li><a href="Marn_Grook" title="Marn Grook">Marn grook</a></li>

<li><a href="Pasuckuakohowog" title="Pasuckuakohowog">Pasuckuakohowog</a></li>

<li><a href="Royal_Shrovetide_Football" title="Royal Shrovetide Football">Royal Shrovetide</a></li>

<li><a href="Uppies_and_Downies" title="Uppies and Downies">Uppies and downies</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Rugby_football" title="Rugby football">Rugby</a> codes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Rugby_league" title="Rugby league">Rugby league</a>

<ul><li><a href="Masters_Rugby_League" title="Masters Rugby League">masters</a></li>

<li><a href="Rugby_league_nines" title="Rugby league nines">nines</a></li>

<li><a href="Rugby_league_sevens" title="Rugby league sevens">sevens</a></li>

<li><a href="Wheelchair_rugby_league" title="Wheelchair rugby league">wheelchair</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">Rugby union</a>

<ul><li><a href="American_flag_rugby" title="American flag rugby">American flag</a></li>

<li><a href="Beach_rugby" title="Beach rugby">beach</a></li>

<li><a href="Rugby_sevens" title="Rugby sevens">sevens</a></li>

<li><a href="Tambo_rugby" title="Tambo rugby">Tambo</a></li>

<li><a href="Touch_rugby" title="Touch rugby">touch</a></li>

<li><a href="Touch_(sport)" title="Touch (sport)">Touch</a></li>

<li><a href="Wheelchair_rugby" title="Wheelchair rugby">Wheelchair</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other related codes</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Jegichagi" title="Jegichagi">Jegichagi</a></li>

<li><a href="Yubi_lakpi" title="Yubi lakpi">Yubi lakpi</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Stick-and-ball<br>sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Bando_(sport)" title="Bando (sport)">Bando</a></li>

<li><a href="Cammag" title="Cammag">Cammag</a></li>

<li><a href="Gateball" title="Gateball">Gateball</a></li>

<li><a href="Hurling" title="Hurling">Hurling</a>

<ul><li><a href="Camogie" title="Camogie">Camogie</a></li>

<li>Super11s</li>

<li><a href="Composite_rules_shinty%E2%80%93hurling" title="Composite rules shinty–hurling">Shinty–Hurling</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Indigenous_North_American_stickball" title="Indigenous North American stickball">Indigenous North American stickball</a></li>

<li><a href="Iomain" title="Iomain">Iomain</a></li>

<li><a href="Knattleikr" title="Knattleikr">Knattleikr</a></li>

<li><a href="Knotty" title="Knotty">Knotty</a></li>

<li><a href="Lacrosse" title="Lacrosse">Lacrosse</a>

<ul><li><a href="Box_lacrosse" title="Box lacrosse">box/indoor</a></li>

<li><a href="Field_lacrosse" title="Field lacrosse">field</a></li>

<li><a href="Intercrosse" title="Intercrosse">intercrosse</a></li>

<li><a href="Women's_lacrosse" title="Women's lacrosse">women's</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Ritinis" title="Ritinis">Ritinis</a></li>

<li><a href="Shinty" title="Shinty">Shinty</a>

<ul><li><a href="Composite_rules_shinty%E2%80%93hurling" title="Composite rules shinty–hurling">Shinty–Hurling</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Hockey" title="Hockey">Hockey</a> sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Ball_hockey" title="Ball hockey">Ball hockey</a></li>

<li><a href="Bandy" title="Bandy">Bandy</a>

<li><a href="Broomball" title="Broomball">Broomball</a></li>

<li><a href="Field_hockey" title="Field hockey">Field hockey</a>

<ul><li><a href="Indoor_hockey" title="Indoor hockey">indoor</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Floor_hockey" title="Floor hockey">Floor hockey</a></li>

<li><a href="Floorball" title="Floorball">Floorball</a></li>

<li><a href="Ice_hockey" title="Ice hockey">Ice hockey</a>

<li><a href="Power_hockey" title="Power hockey">power</a></li>

<li><a href="Sledge_hockey" title="Sledge hockey">ice sledge</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Ringette" title="Ringette">Ringette</a></li>

<li><a href="Rinkball" title="Rinkball">Rinkball</a></li>

<li><a href="Roller_hockey" title="Roller hockey">Roller hockey</a>

<li><a href="Rossall_Hockey" class="mw-redirect" title="Rossall Hockey">Rossall hockey</a></li>

<li><a href="Shinny" title="Shinny">Shinny</a></li>

<li><a href="Street_hockey" title="Street hockey">Street hockey</a></li>

<li><a href="Underwater_hockey" title="Underwater hockey">Underwater hockey</a></li>

<li><a href="Unicycle_hockey" title="Unicycle hockey">Unicycle hockey</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Polo" title="Polo">Polo</a> sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<li><a href="Cowboy_polo" title="Cowboy polo">Cowboy polo</a></li>

<li><a href="Cycle_polo" title="Cycle polo">Cycle polo</a></li>

<li><a href="Elephant_polo" title="Elephant polo">Elephant polo</a></li>

<li><a href="Hobby_horse_polo" title="Hobby horse polo">Hobby horse polo</a></li>

<li><a href="Horseball" title="Horseball">Horseball</a></li>

<ul><li><a href="Arena_polo" class="mw-redirect" title="Arena polo">Arena polo</a></li>

<li><a href="Chovgan" title="Chovgan">Chovgan</a></li>

<li><a href="Polocrosse" title="Polocrosse">Polocrosse</a></li>

<li><a href="Segway_polo" title="Segway polo">Segway polo</a></li>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other goal sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Angleball" title="Angleball">Angleball</a></li>

<li><a href="Cycle_ball" title="Cycle ball">Cycle ball</a></li>

<li><a href="Flickerball" title="Flickerball">Flickerball</a></li>

<li><a href="Goalball" title="Goalball">Goalball</a></li>

<li><a href="Handball" title="Handball">Handball</a>

<ul><li><a href="Beach_handball" title="Beach handball">beach</a></li>

<li><a href="Czech_handball" title="Czech handball">Czech</a></li>

<li><a href="Field_handball" title="Field handball">field</a></li>

<li><a href="Wheelchair_handball" title="Wheelchair handball">wheelchair</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Motoball" title="Motoball">Motoball</a></li>

<li><a href="Pushball" title="Pushball">Pushball</a></li>

<li><a href="Quidditch_(real-life_sport)" title="Quidditch (real-life sport)">Quidditch</a></li>

<li><a href="Underwater_football" title="Underwater football">Underwater football</a></li>

<li><a href="Underwater_rugby" title="Underwater rugby">Underwater rugby</a></li>

<li><a href="Water_polo" title="Water polo">Water polo</a>

<ul><li><a href="Canoe_polo" title="Canoe polo">canoe</a></li>

<li><a href="Inner_tube_water_polo" title="Inner tube water polo">inner tube</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Whirlyball" title="Whirlyball">Whirlyball</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Bat-and-ball_games" title="Bat-and-ball games">Bat-and-ball<br>games</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Variations_of_baseball" title="Variations of baseball">Baseball variants</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Baseball" title="Baseball">Baseball</a></li>

<li><a href="Baseball5" title="Baseball5">Baseball5</a></li>

<li><a href="Br%C3%A4nnboll" title="Brännboll">Brännboll</a></li>

<li><a href="Corkball" title="Corkball">Corkball</a></li>

<li><a href="Kickball" title="Kickball">Kickball</a></li>

<li><a href="Matball" title="Matball">Matball</a></li>

<li><a href="Pes%C3%A4pallo" title="Pesäpallo">Pesäpallo</a></li>

<li><a href="Rounders" title="Rounders">Rounders</a></li>

<li><a href="Schlagball" title="Schlagball">Schlagball</a></li>

<li><a href="Softball" title="Softball">Softball</a>

<ul><li><a href="Fastpitch_softball" title="Fastpitch softball">Fastpitch</a></li>

<li><a href="Stickball_(street_game)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stickball (street game)">Stickball</a></li>

<li><a href="Vitilla" title="Vitilla">Vitilla</a></li>

<li><a href="British_baseball" title="British baseball">British baseball</a>

<ul><li><a href="English_baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="English baseball">English baseball</a></li>

<li><a href="Welsh_baseball" class="mw-redirect" title="Welsh baseball">Welsh baseball</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Wiffle_ball" title="Wiffle ball">Wiffle ball</a></li>

<li><a href="Wireball" title="Wireball">Wireball</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Forms_of_cricket" title="Forms of cricket">Cricket variants</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Cricket" title="Cricket">Cricket</a>

<li><a href="Twenty20_International" title="Twenty20 International">Twenty20</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Indoor_cricket" title="Indoor cricket">Indoor cricket</a></li>

<li><a href="Vigoro" title="Vigoro">Vigoro</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Danish_longball" title="Danish longball">Danish longball</a></li>

<li><a href="Lapta_(game)" title="Lapta (game)">Lapta</a></li>

<li><a href="Stoolball" title="Stoolball">Stoolball</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Net_and_wall_games" title="Net and wall games">Net and wall games</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Ball_badminton" title="Ball badminton">Ball badminton</a></li>

<li><a href="Biribol" title="Biribol">Biribol</a></li>

<li><a href="Bossaball" title="Bossaball">Bossaball</a></li>

<li><a href="Fistball" title="Fistball">Fistball</a></li>

<li><a href="Fives" title="Fives">Fives</a>

<li><a href="Rugby_fives" title="Rugby fives">Rugby</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Footbag_net" title="Footbag net">Footbag net</a></li>

<li><a href="Football_tennis" title="Football tennis">Football tennis</a></li>

<li><a href="Footvolley" title="Footvolley">Footvolley</a></li>

<li><a href="Jianzi" title="Jianzi">Jianzi</a></li>

<li><a href="Jokgu" title="Jokgu">Jokgu</a></li>

<li><a href="Newcomb_ball" title="Newcomb ball">Newcomb ball</a></li>

<li><a href="Peteca" title="Peteca">Peteca</a></li>

<li><a href="Sepak_takraw" title="Sepak takraw">Sepak takraw</a></li>

<li><a href="Teqball" title="Teqball">teqball</a></li>

<li><a href="Throwball" title="Throwball">Throwball</a></li>

<li><a href="Volleyball" title="Volleyball">Volleyball</a>

<ul><li><a href="Beach_volleyball" title="Beach volleyball">beach</a></li>

<li><a href="Volleyball" title="Volleyball">indoor</a></li>

<li><a href="Sitting_volleyball" title="Sitting volleyball">sitting</a></li>

<li><a href="Standing_volleyball" title="Standing volleyball">standing</a></li>

<li><a href="Volleyball_variations#Pioneerball" title="Volleyball variations">pioneerball</a></li>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other ball games</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Dodgeball" title="Dodgeball">Dodgeball</a></li>

<li><a href="Gain-ground" title="Gain-ground">Gain-ground</a>

<ul><li><a href="Balle_%C3%A0_la_main" title="Balle à la main">Balle à la main</a></li>

<li><a href="Ballon_au_poing" title="Ballon au poing">Ballon au poing</a></li>

<li><a href="Jeu_de_paume" title="Jeu de paume">Jeu de paume</a></li>

<li><a href="Longue_paume" title="Longue paume">Longue paume</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Kaatsen" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaatsen">Kaatsen</a></li>

<li><a href="Lagori" class="mw-redirect" title="Lagori">Lagori</a></li>

<li><a href="Mesoamerican_ballgame" title="Mesoamerican ballgame">Mesoamerican ballgame</a></li>

<li><a href="Pelota_mixteca" title="Pelota mixteca">Pelota mixteca</a></li>

<li><a href="Prisonball" title="Prisonball">Prisonball</a></li>

<li><a href="Tamburello" title="Tamburello">Tamburello</a></li>

<li><a href="Tchoukball" title="Tchoukball">Tchoukball</a></li>

<li><a href="Ulama_(game)" title="Ulama (game)">Ulama</a></li>

<li><a href="Valencian_pilota" title="Valencian pilota">Valencian pilota</a>

<ul><li><a href="Llargues" title="Llargues">Llargues</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Yukigassen" title="Yukigassen">Yukigassen</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Tag_sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Tag sports">Tag sports</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Kabaddi" title="Kabaddi">Kabaddi</a></li>

<li><a href="World_Chase_Tag" title="World Chase Tag">World Chase Tag</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="Water_sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Water sports">Water sports</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Synchronized_swimming" title="Synchronized swimming">Synchronized swimming</a></li>

<li><a href="Yacht_racing" title="Yacht racing">Yacht racing</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other non-ball sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Airsoft" title="Airsoft">Airsoft</a></li>

<li><a href="Bo-taoshi" title="Bo-taoshi">Bo-taoshi</a></li>

<li><a href="Buzkashi" title="Buzkashi">Buzkashi</a></li>

<li><a href="Combat_(juggling)" title="Combat (juggling)">Combat (juggling)</a></li>

<li><a href="Curling" title="Curling">Curling</a>

<ul><li><a href="Wheelchair_curling" title="Wheelchair curling">wheelchair</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Hornussen" title="Hornussen">Hornussen</a></li>

<li><a href="Jereed" title="Jereed">Jereed</a></li>

<li><a href="Makura-Nage" title="Makura-Nage">Makura-Nage</a></li>

<li><a href="Paintball" title="Paintball">Paintball</a></li>

<li><a href="Roller_derby" title="Roller derby">Roller derby</a></li>

<li><a href="Synchronized_skating" title="Synchronized skating">Synchronized skating</a></li>

<li><a href="Ultimate_frisbee" title="Ultimate frisbee">Ultimate</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

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<ul><li><a href="Aquatic_sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Aquatic sports">Aquatics</a>

<ul><li><a href="Synchronized_swimming" title="Synchronized swimming">Artistic</a></li>

<li><a href="Diving_(sport)" title="Diving (sport)">Diving</a></li>

<li><a href="Open_water_swimming" title="Open water swimming">Marathon Swimming</a></li>

<li><a href="Swimming_(sport)" title="Swimming (sport)">Swimming</a></li>

<li><a href="Water_polo" title="Water polo">Water polo</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Archery" title="Archery">Archery</a></li>

<li><a href="Sport_of_athletics" title="Sport of athletics">Athletics</a></li>

<li><a href="Badminton" title="Badminton">Badminton</a></li>

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<li><a href="Boxing" title="Boxing">Boxing</a></li>

<li><a href="Canoeing" title="Canoeing">Canoeing</a>

<ul><li><a href="Canoe_slalom" title="Canoe slalom">Canoe slalom</a></li>

<li><a href="Canoe_sprint" title="Canoe sprint">Canoe sprint</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Cycle_sport" title="Cycle sport">Cycling</a>

<ul><li><a href="BMX_racing" title="BMX racing">BMX racing</a></li>

<li><a href="Freestyle_BMX" title="Freestyle BMX">Freestyle BMX</a></li>

<li><a href="Mountain_bike_racing" title="Mountain bike racing">Mountain biking</a></li>

<li><a href="Road_bicycle_racing" title="Road bicycle racing">Road cycling</a></li>

<li><a href="Track_cycling" title="Track cycling">Track cycling</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Equestrianism" title="Equestrianism">Equestrian</a>

<ul><li><a href="Dressage" title="Dressage">Dressage</a></li>

<li><a href="Eventing" title="Eventing">Eventing</a></li>

<li><a href="Show_jumping" title="Show jumping">Show jumping</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Fencing" title="Fencing">Fencing</a></li>

<li><a href="Field_hockey" title="Field hockey">Field hockey</a></li>

<li><a href="Association_football" title="Association football">Football</a></li>

<li><a href="Gymnastics" title="Gymnastics">Gymnastics</a>

<ul><li><a href="Artistic_gymnastics" title="Artistic gymnastics">Artistic gymnastics</a></li>

<li><a href="Rhythmic_gymnastics" title="Rhythmic gymnastics">Rhythmic gymnastics</a></li>

<li><a href="Trampolining" title="Trampolining">Trampolining</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Handball" title="Handball">Handball</a></li>

<li><a href="Modern_pentathlon" title="Modern pentathlon">Modern pentathlon</a></li>

<li><a href="Rowing_(sport)" title="Rowing (sport)">Rowing</a></li>

<li><a href="Rugby_sevens" title="Rugby sevens">Rugby sevens</a></li>

<li><a href="Sailing_(sport)" title="Sailing (sport)">Sailing</a></li>

<li><a href="Shooting_sports" title="Shooting sports">Shooting</a></li>

<li><a href="Skateboarding" title="Skateboarding">Skateboarding</a></li>

<li><a href="Competition_climbing" title="Competition climbing">Sport climbing</a></li>

<li><a href="Surfing" title="Surfing">Surfing</a></li>

<li><a href="Table_tennis" title="Table tennis">Table tennis</a></li>

<li><a href="Taekwondo" title="Taekwondo">Taekwondo</a></li>

<li><a href="Tennis" title="Tennis">Tennis</a></li>

<li><a href="Triathlon" title="Triathlon">Triathlon</a></li>

<li><a href="Volleyball" title="Volleyball">Volleyball</a>

<ul><li><a href="Beach_volleyball" title="Beach volleyball">Beach volleyball</a></li></ul></li>

<li><a href="Olympic_weightlifting" title="Olympic weightlifting">Weightlifting</a></li>

<li><a href="Wrestling" title="Wrestling">Wrestling</a>

<ul><li><a href="Freestyle_wrestling" title="Freestyle wrestling">Freestyle wrestling</a></li>

<li><a href="Greco-Roman_wrestling" title="Greco-Roman wrestling">Greco-Roman wrestling</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Discretionary sports</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="Baseball" title="Baseball">Baseball</a> / <a href="Softball" title="Softball">Softball</a></li>

<li><a href="Twenty20" title="Twenty20">Cricket</a></li>

<li><a href="Flag_football" title="Flag football">Flag football</a></li>

<li><a href="Lacrosse_sixes" title="Lacrosse sixes">Lacrosse</a></li>

<li><a href="Squash_(sport)" title="Squash (sport)">Squash</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><i>See also:</i> <a href="Paralympic_sports" title="Paralympic sports">Paralympic sports</a> and <a href="Winter_Olympic_sports" class="mw-redirect" title="Winter Olympic sports">Winter Olympic sports</a></li></ul>

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