About Basketball

1. BASKETBALL

2. Basketball
• Is a team sport played by two teams
of five players on a rectangular court.

4. • The objective is to shoot a ball
through a goal (basket). The team
with the most points at the end
of the game wins.

5. Dr. James Naismith
• A Canadian American physical education
professor and instructor at the
International Young Men’s Christian
Association Training School (YMCA) in
Springfield, Massachusetts.

6. • Peach
Basket that
were hang
from the
balcony of
the gym.
• 10 ft.
elevated

7. • By 1906 the
peach basket
were replace
by metal
basket with
holes in the
bottom.

8. • In 1913, a
hoop basket
with a net
was
invented.

9. • The first ball
made for
basketball
were brown

11. Basketball in the
Philippines

12. •Timeline in the History
of Basketball in the
Philippines.

13. 1898-1900
• United Stated Introduced the sport
of Basketball through the YMCA in
the Philippines.

14. 1913
• 1st Philippine National basketball
team was formed.

15. 1936
• The Philippines participated in the
first official Olympic
Gamesbasketball tournament held at
Berlin, Germany.

16. 1951
• The Philippines won the first ever
Gold Medal at the Asian Games held
in New Delhi, India.

17. 1960
• The Philippines won the first ever
Asian Basketball Confederation.
• Carlos Badion was named the first
ever FIBA Asia Most Valuable Player

18. 1977
• The Philippines won the first ever
Southeast Asian Games basketball
gold medal.

19. 1979
• The Philippines won its second
Southeast Asian Games basketball
gold medal.

20. 1985
• The Philippines captured the 9th
William Jones Cup championship.

21. 2013
• The Philippines “Gilas Pilipinas”
ended as second place in the FIBA
Asia World Cup.

22. “If we play together, we can be a WINNER!”
-Group 3