My dad is a big basketball fan so I know a lot about it, even though I don't really follow it.  It's considered a limited contact sport played on a rectangular court.  Do you enjoy it?
Yeah basketball is a lot of fun to watch.
Usually it is played as a team sport, but there are also other competitions like two on two, one on one, etc.. and they are pretty common as well.
I've never seen it played like that before.
Probably more in local gyms than on TV I guess.  It was actually invented by a doctor named James Naismith!
Really? That's the least likely occupation to have made basketball haha.
James Naismith
James Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, sports coach, and innovator. He invented the game of basketball at age 30 in 1891. He wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (
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