Basketball is a team sport played between two teams of 5 players each. The objective is to score more points than the opposing team by shooting the ball through a hoop mounted above the ground. Players score points through field goals worth 2 or 3 points depending on the shot location, or through free throws worth 1 point if fouled. The game has evolved over time from its original form with a soccer ball to the current form with rules against traveling, double dribbling, and goaltending. Famous players include Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant while elite international teams include the San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls.

1. Basketball
Basketball

2. Introduction
Basketball is played by millions of people, both men and women, in all
parts of the world. Professional basketball is watched by millions more
on TV. The game is played between two teams, with five players per
team allowed on the court at any one time.

3. Rules
• Basketball players cannot kick the ball or hit it with their fist.
• No player can touch the basketball while it is traveling downward
towards the basket or if it is on the rim. This is called goaltending.
(touching the ball on the rim is legal in some games).

4. Equipment:
• Mouthguard is optionally used
• Muscular shirt
• It have a boot shape to hold the ankle securely and protect it from
sprains.
• The pants can be shorts

5. Things that are prohibited:
• It is prohibited for players to wear rings, chains, bracelets or any other
jewel as it may damage an opponent
• Taking more than 'a step and a half' without dribbling the ball is
traveling. Moving your pivot foot once you've stopped dribbling is
traveling.
• When a player dribbles the ball with his hand too far to the side of or,
sometimes, even under the ball.
• Dribbling the ball with both hands on the ball at the same time or
picking up the dribble and then dribbling again is a double dribble.

6. How it is count the points?
• Points are scored by getting the ball through a hoop called 'the goal' or 'the
basket', and the team scoring the most points wins.
• 3 points - Awarded to players who successfully shoot the ball through the hoop
from behind the three-point line.
• 2 points - Awarded to players who successfully shoot the ball through the hoop
from anywhere inside the three-point line. This can be done by shooting a jump
shot, laying the ball into the rim, or slamming the ball through the hoop.
• 1 point - When players are fouled, they get free attempts to shoot the ball, which
are called foul shots. A player is given one point for every successful foul shot.

7. Famous Players
• Michael Jordan
• Emanuel Ginobilli
• Facundo Campazo
• Kobe Bryant
• Luis Scola

8. Teams (national / international)
• San Antonio Spurs
• Chicago Bulls
• UCLA (Bruins)
• Wildcats

9. Glossary
• Sought: to go in search of: to seek (out) a new life.
• Inflatable: object, device, or structure, esp. a small rubber boat that is
inflated with air.
• Bladder: something resembling a bladder, such as the inside lining of
a football inflated with air.
• Endorsed: to express or give approval or support of, esp. publicly.
• Asymmetric: having two sides or halves that are differently shaped.

10. History
• Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball. These round balls from
"association football" were made, at the time, with a set of laces to close
off the hole needed for inserting the inflatable bladder after the other
sewn-together segments of the ball's cover had been flipped outside-
in. These laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be
unpredictable. Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was
invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith. The first
balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it was only in the
late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible
to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in
common use. Dribbling was not part of the original game except for the
"bounce pass" to teammates. Passing the ball was the primary means of
ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the
asymmetric shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a major part of the
game around the 1950s, as manufacturing improved the ball shape.

11. Links
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvD1JQuZDfo
• http://www.wordreference.com/es/
• https://www.thetoptens.com/basketball-players/