Coordinating teacher: Iulia Manicea Students: Iris Gruia & Miruna Zavelca 6 th grade C.N.I.T.V.

The first ring Inca, Mayan, Aztec =>Ring of stone Natives from Florida =>Wattle basket Indians from America =>Trunks of trees

 December 1891: Basketball is invented in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, when Dr. James Naismith tosses a ball into a peach basket  June 18th, 1932: International Basketball Federation (FIBA) is founded by the following eight National Federations: Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Switzerland  August 1st, 1936: Basketball is played for the first time in the Olympics at the Games of the XI-th Olympiad in Berlin  October 22nd, 1950: First World Championship for Men is opened in Buenos Aires, Argentina  March 7th, 1953: First World Championship for Women is opened in Santiago, Chile

 April 8th, 1989: The FIBA World Congress decides to eliminate the distinction between amateurs and professionals, making all basketball players eligible for FIBA competitions  1991: The Centenary of basketball is celebrated by an estimated 350 million basketball players throughout the world. Celebrations end at the birthplace of basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA  July 1992: For the first time, professional players participate at the Olympic Games in Barcelona  March 2007: FIBA inaugurates the FIBA Hall of Fame in Alcobendas on the occasion of its 75th anniversary

… and everybody can play it Basketball can be played almost everywhere…

Basketball requires : Team spirit Sacrifice Intelligence Psychical resistance

"The purpose of each team is to shoot the ball into the opponents’ basket and prevent the other team from securing the ball or scoring, within the rules of the game."

The rules of the game Number of players: -for fun: only one player or two teams of 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 players on each team. Teams can be mixed, with boys and girls, or not. -on a competition level: teams of 5 players playing on the court and 5 players sitting, used for substitution.

The rules of the game Positions: - determined by the height of the player  center / position 5: the tallest player  forwards / position 3 and 4: the medium size players  guards / position 1 and 2: the shortest players

The rules of the game Scoring: A player scores when he manages to throw the ball into the basket, with the ball passing through the basket from above the hoop. Scoring a basket increases the team’s score by 3, 2 or 1 point.

Scoring signals

Basketball players have big size and remarkable bodily quality Andrei Kirilenko (AK47) Professional basketball player 2.06 meters tall 103 kg weigh en.wikipedia.org

m 2.06 kg 103

m 2.13 kg 113

m 2.11 kg 118

m 1.88 kg 91

m 2.13 kg 111

m 2.08 kg 107

m 2.08 kg 100

m 2.06 kg 118

m 1.98 kg 93

m 2.06 kg 111

m 2.11 kg 119

m 2.13 kg 113

m 1.88 kg 82 nba-funny-photos.blogspot.com/2011/09/fiba-2010-giant-wallpapers.html

Gheorghe Muresan - the only Romanian professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association from North America - NBA ( ). -one of the tallest players in NBA history (2.31 m, 143 kg) en.wikipedia.org

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