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The very first, pilot, international competition dates back to 1904; Basketball has been featured in the Summer Olympics since 1936. Then, in Berlin, the US team became the champion, which defeated Canada in the final. Since then, the American team has traditionally dominated the Olympic basketball competition until 1972, when in Munich, during the final match, it suffered its first defeat from the USSR team. As for the world championships under the auspices of FIBA, the first such competition took place in Argentina in 1950, and three years later, the first world championship among women's teams was also held in Chile. Women's basketball entered the Olympic program ten Olympics later than men's - in 1976, in Montreal (Canada). For the championship title then fought, in particular, the national teams of the USSR, USA, Brazil and Australia.

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In 1932, at the first international conference of national basketball associations, held in Geneva (Switzerland), the International Federation of (Amateur) Basketball was founded. The founders were the national basketball committees of eight countries: Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Switzerland. At the time of its creation, it was assumed that only amateur basketball would be in the scope of the organization; subsequently, in 1989, professional basketball players received admission to international competitions, and the word "amateur" was removed from the name. It should be noted that at the same time, the French-language abbreviation of the name - FIBA - has not been changed.

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About a decade later, in 1967, another organization was created - the American Basketball Association, which for some time competed with the NBA; however, it also did not remain independent for long and after 9 years it merged with the NBA. The latter is currently one of the most influential and well-known professional leagues in the world. There are 30 teams in the NBA for the 2021/22 season. The most titled teams in NBA history are the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers (17 wins in 32 finals) and the Boston Celtics (17 wins in 21 finals). The NBA is considered the strongest league in the world, winning the NBA Finals is often seen as more prestigious than winning the Olympics or the World Championship.

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NBA Los Angeles Clippers vs Phoenix Suns (November 21, 2004, Staples Center)
The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was formed in 1946. The first match under her auspices took place on November 1 of the same year in Toronto (Canada) between the Toronto Huskies and New York Knickerbockers. After three playing seasons, in 1949, the association merged with the US National Basketball League to form the National Basketball Association (NBA). By the middle of the century, basketball became widespread in educational institutions, becoming one of the key sports there, and as a result, interest in professional basketball increased proportionally. In 1959, the Hall of Fame was established in Springfield, home of the first basketball game in history, honoring the most significant players, coaches, referees, and others who have made a significant contribution to the development of the game.

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At the beginning of the 20th century, the first professional basketball teams began to take shape. On the one hand, throughout the United States in settlements of various sizes, a significant number of such teams (several hundred in number) arose; on the other hand, any organization of professional games was practically non-existent. Players arbitrarily moved between teams, matches were held in premises not adapted for competitions, various leagues and associations appeared and disbanded. Some "tour" teams (English barnstorming squads), such as, for example, the Original Celtics, the New York Renaissance Five or the Harlem Globetrotters (the latter still exists) managed to play up to 200 matches a year on their trips around the country.

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Historians, thanks to the found artifacts and historical manuscripts, noticed that the ancient ball games turned into an attribute of initiations (dedications), dances, holidays, becoming ritual athletic games.
Thus, the earliest references to a ball game similar to basketball are found in the records of the Indian peoples of Mexico and Central America and date back to 1500 BC. Tlatchley - cult games that were held in specially equipped "Tlachos" stadiums (the remains of which have survived to this day), this playing field, rectangular in shape, was surrounded by high walls (3-4 m) with stands for spectators, and two teams had to to hit the opponent's ring with a rubber ball, which was vertically fixed in the middle of the short side of the court[10]. The Mayan tribe played a game of Pok-ta-pok, which in its content resembled the Aztec game.
Modern chronicles note that in later times, other, new ball games appeared, some of which are similar to modern basketball: Episkirus was played in Sparta, Harpastum was played in ancient Rome, Calcio was played in Italy. Some games were brought to North America by emigrants. This is how the French game of the 7th and 8th centuries, Shuliage, became popular in Florida: players set up poles with hoops on some elevation and teams tried to hit the target as many times as possible by throwing a round stone or a ball sewn from pieces of leather. The English game Duck on a stone is also known: when a target was placed on a large stone and stones were thrown at it. Naturally, the most accurate won

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Researchers of antiquity noticed long ago that humanity, in different parts of the world and at different times, used games and fun with rounded objects. If for children it was almost the only amusement, then for adults it turned into a certain symbolic ritual. And only from the beginning of the 20th century, human civilization began to use games as entertainment to improve its body and physical form, and then it turned into sports competitions, both at the amateur and professional level.

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James Naismith named his game "Basket Ball"[7] — from basket ("basket") and ball ("ball"). Later, the name was transformed into basketball — the word used in English to refer to both the game and the basketball. It is borrowed from most languages of the world, where it is used in relation to playing with a basket and a ball. In some countries, this game has its own names, which are tracings from English. basketball — gender koszykówka, Czech košíková, Croatian and Slavic basketball, lit. красчиниis (from красфыs — "basket"), as well as Western Ukrainian "koshikyvka", "basket". The introduction of tracing paper "basketball" to the Ukrainian sports terminology of the beginning of the 20th century. associated with the name of I. M. Bobersky [8].
According to Olga Toulousekova, "basket" belongs to the group of lexemes that have received functional or stylistic restrictions in SUM due to the presence of the synonym "basketball"[9].

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The first men's world championship was held in 1950, and the women's in 1953. Nowadays, the world championships are held every four years. The most prestigious competitions among national teams are the Olympic Games, the World Basketball Championship, and among club teams the NBA Championship, and in Europe the ULEB EuroLeague, the EuroCup and the FIBA Challenge Cup.

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Basketball (English basketball from basket — "basket" and ball — "ball"; adj., dial. basket[1][2][3][4] or basket[5][6]) is a team sport a game with a ball thrown by hand into a ring with a net (basket) fixed to a shield 3 meters 5 centimeters (10 feet) above the court. Basketball is an Olympic sport.
Two teams of 5 people play on a court 28x15 m. On the short sides of the court, "baskets" are fixed on shields at a height of 305 cm - metal rings with a diameter of 45 cm with a rope net without a bottom. The winner is the team that managed to throw the ball into the opponent's "basket" more times. The length of the game is four 10-minute periods, with two-minute breaks between the first and second and third and fourth quarters, and a long 15-minute break between the second and third periods. In the National Basketball Association, the game lasts 48 minutes and is divided into 4 quarters.

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