Basketball

                                 Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 10 feet (3.0 m) high mounted to a backboard at each end. Basketball is one of the world's most popular and widely viewed sports. Its acronym, derived from the French Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur, was thus "FIBA". Men's Basketball was first included at the Berlin 1936 summer olympics,although a demonstration tournament was held in 1904.

In 1891, the University  of california  and Miss Head's School played the first women's interinstitutional game. Women's basketball began in 1892 at smith collage when senda berenson, a physical education teacher, modified Naismith's rules for women.
                                                  The object of the game is to outscore one's opponents by throwing the ball through the opponents' basket from above while preventing the opponents from doing so on their own. An attempt to score in this way is called a shot. A successful shot is worth two points, or three points if it is taken from beyond the three-point arc which is 6.75 metres (22 ft 2 in) from the basket in international games and 23 feet 9 inches (7.24 m) in NBA games. A one-point shot can be earned when shooting from the foul line after a foul is made. It had got much popularity in short period of time in worldwide. 
                                                                               It is the game which is played between two teams. Basketball's early adherents were dispatched to YMCAs throughout the United States, and it quickly spread through the USA and Canada. By 1895, it was well established at several women's high schools.It is much popular and well played in Nepal.Any player is not allowed to play out of the rule. Many kind of rules are made by" FIBA".