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... Wikipedia

• Highest governing body:  FIBA
• First played:  December 21, 1891. Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
• Contact:  Limited
• Team members:  5 per side
• Mixed gender:  Yes, separate competitions
• Type:  Indoor/Outdoor
• Equipment:  Basketball
• Venue:  Indoor court (mainly) or outdoor court (Streetball)
• Country or region:  Worldwide
• Olympic:  Yes, demonstrated in the 1904 and 1924 Summer Olympics, Part of the Summer Olympic program since 1936
• Paralympic:  Yes
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo