BasketBall

Basketball is a sport that is played on a rectangular court with 5 players on each team. Both teams try to score in the opposing basket. The basket is a circular elevated hoop with a net. The hoop is ten feet tall. There are many things on a basketball court. One thing on a basketball court is the key, both sides of the court have a key. The key is a rectangular shaped area under the free-throw line. Scoring in this zone by either shooting or dunking will earn your team 2 points. At the top of the key their is the outline of a half-circle which extends to the outer regions of a half-side of the court. This is the three-point line. Scoring on or behind this line will, in its name, earn your team three points.

There are four quarters in a basketball game. Each quarter is 12 minutes long. So the half of the game is 48 minutes long, the whole game is 2-2.5 hours long, including fouls, out-of-bounds, and 15 half-time. If your team has more points than the opposing team when the game ends, your team has won the game, but if the opposing team has more points they win. If the game is tied, the game will go into over time. Overtime is about ten minutes long. When the game goes into over time, both teams play until the ten minutes up, after the ten minutes are over which of the two teams have more points have won the game.