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Why do they call the net in basketball a basket?
When basketball was first made it was used for a gym game and they put baskets on top of poles, that is where the name came from.
How was basketball actually was named basketball?
Because when basketball was first played they used peach baskets. Thus, The name BASKETball.
In doreen's first basketball game she made a basket 9 times out of 15 attempts she made the same ratio of baskets out of 25 attempts in the second game how many baskets did she make in her 25 attempt?
15
What type of baskets for basketball are used now?
candian baskets
Where were basketball goals first used?
The basketball was first discovered by a man named Dr. James Naismith. He taught at the YMCA training school in Springfield Massachusetts. He used peach baskets as the goals. The peach baskets then had the bottoms of them removed so that the ball could swish through the baskets instead of hitting the bottom.
What do players need in a basketball game?
Two baskets and a basketball.
What was used as the first basketball and hoop?
Peach baskets were nailed onto a 10 foot high track. The bottoms were left on the baskets so each time a shot was good the ball would have to be retrieved from the basket.
Why is it called basketball?
For the first game of basketball in 1891, two half-bushel peach baskets were used as the goals, which gave the sport its name.
A basketball player made 100 baskets if four fifths of the baskets were 2 point shots how many of them were 3 point shots?
20 shots were 3's
How do teams get points in basketball?
By shooting baskets
What is vital in scoring plays in basketball?
baskets
What are the baskets?
Baskets are the hoop in basketball. They are meant to be there to throw basketballs into. That is the only way to score a point.
