Basketball is a five‑on‑five team sport played on a rectangular court, where players score by shooting the ball into hoops. Key rules govern movement, scoring, fouls, and timing. For newcomers, ...

Among the new sports and events at the Tokyo Olympics is an addition to basketball: a three-on-three (3x3) half-court version of hoops that's different in so many ways from its five-on-five full-court ...

During this year's 2024 Paris Olympics, you may notice a different kind of basketball: a three-on-three (3x3) version that is only played on half a court. YES. HALF A COURT. In 2017, after the sport ...

The basic rules are those set forth in the NCAA basketball rule book. Adjustments due to the facilities and the times available are these: No Varsity or JV basketball players may play intramural ...

Since James Naismith’s fateful decision to hang a peach basket on the wall at a YMCA training school in western Massachusetts in 1891, basketball has been a quintessentially American sport. For fans ...

3×3 basketball will make its debut at the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo but, as a new sport at this event, it’s worth going over the rules. Basketball for both the men and women is one of the premier events ...