Five facts about basketball, that will surprise you.

Do you know that basketball is already 129 years old ?! And who invented this game? It was James Naismith, a teacher of the Christian Youth Association College in Massachusetts. At that time, students at this college had a lot of grueling sports training, but they were very monotonous and boring. So, one day, James Naismith, already mentioned, tied two baskets of peaches to the balconies of the gym and divided the students into two teams and offered them a game. Students needed to throw as many balls as possible into the opponent’s basket.

In 1892, Sand Berenson, a teacher at Smith College Physical Education in Northampton, in Massachusetts, developed the first rules of women’s basketball. And now it is no longer just a game, but a serious sport, around which have accumulated many myths, legends and interesting facts over 129 years. Today we will tell you about some of them.

1.These Basketball Rules (over 200!) based on 13 game principles formulated in the same distant period. NBA members must follow specific rules, including the association setting a dress code for players. It can even regulate the color of socks a player wears. But some rules are very practical. For example, a ban on wearing earrings and chains on a basketball court is due to the risk of injury.

2. And in North Korea, a long-range hit is valued at 4 points, a successful throw from above is 3 points, and run in the last 3 minutes of the match brings 8 points. It also provides for the deduction of marks in case of an unsuccessful execution of a free throw. It seems that such a change in rules is unacceptable. However, this makes the game more dynamic and spectacular.

3. The tallest basketball player in the game has been Libyan Suleiman Ali Nashnush, whose growth has reached the mark of 245 centimeters.

4. It is believed that only tall players can play basketball. But this is not true. For example, the American Mags Bogz had a height of 1.60 meters. And many NBA players are less than 170 centimeters tall.

5. Until 1929, basketball was played with a soccer ball, and subsequently, the first basketballs were exceptionally brown. Today, ordinary basketballs can have up to ten million bubbles.