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What is Basketball?
== Basketball is a popular sport. There are five players on each team and each team tries to get the basketball in each other's nets while preventing the opponents from doing so on their own. You play this game with a basketball which is a sphere coloured orange and with black stripes. Basketball is most common in the USA. == == There are professional teams, college teams, high school, and so on. The main thing is to get the ball into the opposing team's hoop by dribbling and shooting with your hands, Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports. == ==An attempt to score is called a shot. A successful shot is worth two points, or three points if it is taken from beyond the three-point arc which is 6.25 metres (20 ft 6 in) from the basket in international games and 23 feet 9 inches (7.24 m) in NBA games. A one-point shot can be earned when shooting from the foul line after a foul is made.==

Rules of Basketball
== If you run or walk with the ball that is called traveling. If you travel, the other team gets the ball. If the person who has the ball steps or dribbles the ball out of bounds, the ball goes to the other team. If the ball is thrown over the basket it is basically like a ball out of bounds. The team that threw the ball loses position of it. == == A foul is any time you make contact with another player. If you push somebody then that is a foul. A foul can be called if you: push, kick, reaching in, bad language, etc., If the person with the ball is up in the air and you foul them, they get to go to the free throw line and have two free shots. However if the shot was being taken from three-point range, the player will take three shots. If a player has made five fouls that person is taken out of the game. That means they will not be able to play in that game again. == == In a basketball game when you make a shot it can be worth two points or three depending on where you shot the ball from. There is an arch on both sides of the basketball court. If you shoot the ball and make it from inside the arch you get two points. If you make a basket from outside the arch you get three points instead of two. ==