Hi Can you tell me a little about basketball?
The objective to basketball is to shoot a ball through a hoop that is mounted high on a backboard at the end of a court.
Interesting! when did this game start?
The game was invented around 1891.  It has been around a while!
That's a long time! Has the game changed over time?
Not quite sure.  I think the free throws have always been involved.  A team can score one point with a free throw after another team is fouled.
Oh i see. Anything else cool about it?
% of their attempts. The league's best shooters (such as Mark Price, Steve Nash, Rick Barry, Ray Allen, José Calderón, Stephen Curry, Reggie Miller, Kevin Durant, and Dirk Nowitzki) can make roughly 90% of their attempts over a season, while notoriously poor shooters (e.g. Dwight Howard, DeAndre Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, Andre Drummond, Andris Biedrins, Chris Dudley, Ben Wallace, Shaquille O'Neal, and Dennis Rodman) may struggle to make 50% of them. During a foul shot
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court) while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After