1、Basketball 李鶴What is basketball?If you are thinking about the big round thing which makes noise everyday a team sport shoot a ball through a basket to score points Follows a set of rules Basketball is one of the worlds most popular and widely viewed sports.Basket ball CourtBasketball hoopThe origin

2、of basketballIn early December 1891, Canadian American Dr. James Naismith,2 a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Mens Christian Association Training School3 (YMCA) (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA), was trying to keep his gym class a

3、ctive on a rainy day. He sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto

4、a 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, and balls had to be retrieved manually after each basket or point scored; this proved inefficient, however, so the bottom of the basket was removed,4 allowing the balls to be poked out

5、with a long dowel each timeNext, some basic rules.Score：3 points：2 points1 point, when there is a foul(犯規(guī))Violations(違反)The ball must stay within the court; the last team to touch the ball before it travels out of bounds losses possession.The ball-handler may not step with both feet without dribblin

6、g（運(yùn)球） traveling, nor dribble with both hands or hold the ball and resume dribbling, a violation called double dribbling. 失去球權(quán)二次運(yùn)球走步Any part of the players hand cannot be directly under the ball while dribbling; doing so is known as carrying the ball. 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. The ball may not be kicked, nor be struck with the fist.持球腳踢球回線As for other rules of basketball, I think theyre much too complicated in English. So, if yo