It depends on which basketball court you are talking about. The NBA and FIBA paint is 16 feet wide. The NCAA paint is 12 feet wide.
paint
You take some paper or cardboard then you paint it to make it like a basketball court.
The paint or the painted area
Seven shots in the paint means, seven shots on the basketball court.
of concrete and paint and some weird chalky stuff
It is very simple it means literally means the player is standing in the painted part of the court in front of the basketball hoop
that would take 40 minutes and 6 hours.
Sometimes its called the paint, the lane, or the box
There is a rectangle under the basket on the court. That area is considered the paint, and obviously any points scored in that area would be considered 'points in the paint.'
by using paint brush
Top of the key, the paint, the wings, the free throw line, the backcourt, the frontcourt.