Team sport
Basketball
Invented in a gym in thirteen days, played everywhere since.
- Origin
- Springfield, USA, 1891
- Players
- 5 per side
- Governing body
- FIBA
- Game length
- 4 × 10 or 12 min
- Court
- 28 × 15 m
- Olympic
- Yes, since 1936
Three ways in
Option one
Rules & how to play
Everything you need to follow a game of basketball: the objective, the field, the fouls and the officials.
7 sections
Option two
History & origins
Where basketball came from and how it grew, told as a timeline of the moments that changed it.
11 milestones
Option three
Players
Search the greats by name, country or honour — or scroll the list to find someone you've never heard of.
12 profiles