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Is Basketball primarily an indoor or outdoor sport?
- Thread starter cormack12
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Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Now what about ice hockey
Lunarorbit
Member
I'll say indoors. Personally I've played about 75% outdoors versus indoors and I still think of it as an indoor sport cause of the NBA
lukilladog
Member
I don't think those are valid categories for sports.
cormack12
Gold Member
Yeah, I was not impressed and the only reason I chose outdoor was because the remaining answers were deffo not.
EverydayBeast
ChatGPT 0.1
I’d put basketball in the outdoor and indoor sport category it’s not uncommon to play basketball at the park.
muh peach baskets!
I read that it was invented in the winter in the US.
www.history.com
December 21, 1891,
Naismith cleared the athletic equipment off the gymnasium’s wooden floor and picked up a soccer ball. He asked a janitor for two square boxes, but the best the custodian could do was a pair of peach baskets, which Naismith mounted to the lower rail of the gym’s balcony, about 10 feet off the ground.
“I called the boys to the gym, divided them up into teams of nine and gave them a little soccer ball,” Naismith recalled in a 1939 radio interview that aired on WOR-AM in New York City. “I showed them two peach baskets I’d nailed up at each end of the gym, and I told them the idea was to throw the ball into the opposing team’s peach basket. I blew the whistle, and the first game of basketball began.”
The only rule Naismith gave to the boys was to get the soccer ball into the bottom of the peach basket, from which it was retrieved by students in the balcony. The lack of guidelines, however, soon proved problematic. “The boys began tackling, kicking and punching in the clinches. Before I could pull them apart, one boy was knocked out, several of them had black eyes and one had a dislocated shoulder. It certainly was murder,” Naismith said in the 1939 broadcast, which is thought to be the only existing recording of his voice.
The game may have been rough, but it was fun. “After that first match, I was afraid they’d kill each other, but they kept nagging me to let them play again, so I made up some new rules,” Naismith recalled. The physical education instructor sat down and devised 13 rules for his invention and gave them to his secretary to type up onto two pages, which he posted in the gym.
The most important rule was that there could be no running with the soccer ball. It could only be thrown or batted from the spot where it was caught. “That stopped tackling and slugging,” Naismith said. “We tried out the game with those rules, and there were no casualties. We had a fine, clean sport.”
Which goes with the heritage video
Indoors.
As passed down from the Lords of Kobol and a tribute to necessity.
I read that it was invented in the winter in the US.
Who Invented Basketball? | HISTORY
A Canadian is to thank for one of America’s favorite pastimes.
www.history.com
Naismith cleared the athletic equipment off the gymnasium’s wooden floor and picked up a soccer ball. He asked a janitor for two square boxes, but the best the custodian could do was a pair of peach baskets, which Naismith mounted to the lower rail of the gym’s balcony, about 10 feet off the ground.
“I called the boys to the gym, divided them up into teams of nine and gave them a little soccer ball,” Naismith recalled in a 1939 radio interview that aired on WOR-AM in New York City. “I showed them two peach baskets I’d nailed up at each end of the gym, and I told them the idea was to throw the ball into the opposing team’s peach basket. I blew the whistle, and the first game of basketball began.”
The only rule Naismith gave to the boys was to get the soccer ball into the bottom of the peach basket, from which it was retrieved by students in the balcony. The lack of guidelines, however, soon proved problematic. “The boys began tackling, kicking and punching in the clinches. Before I could pull them apart, one boy was knocked out, several of them had black eyes and one had a dislocated shoulder. It certainly was murder,” Naismith said in the 1939 broadcast, which is thought to be the only existing recording of his voice.
The game may have been rough, but it was fun. “After that first match, I was afraid they’d kill each other, but they kept nagging me to let them play again, so I made up some new rules,” Naismith recalled. The physical education instructor sat down and devised 13 rules for his invention and gave them to his secretary to type up onto two pages, which he posted in the gym.
The most important rule was that there could be no running with the soccer ball. It could only be thrown or batted from the spot where it was caught. “That stopped tackling and slugging,” Naismith said. “We tried out the game with those rules, and there were no casualties. We had a fine, clean sport.”
Which goes with the heritage video
Indoors.
As passed down from the Lords of Kobol and a tribute to necessity.
Tams
Member
Fucking knew it, Binger. Slam dunk!
I'm also a Binger and Microsoft Rewards points whore.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Organized = indoors. Goofing around = outdoors
Tams
Member
Nuh uh.
For gymnasiums, basketball hoops (and boards) are a basic feature around the world.
They are much less common outside.
BadBurger
Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
Mostly outdoors IMO, at least in the Eastern and Southern US. There are tons of outdoor courts and makeshift courts in people's driveways or backyards. I mean, I live in a pretty affluent city environment and off the top of my head there's at least five large outdoor courts near me. And almost all of my neighbors on my street have some kind of improvised court - like one of those dangerous looking wheel around hoops they move into the driveway.
There are almost certainly fewer gymnasiums than public basketball courts. Public courts are everywhere in SEA and China. I have like 15 within walking distance but only two sports halls.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
i think its an indoor sport to contain the ball.
even the outdoor courts have gates around them, simulating an indoor environment...
even the outdoor courts have gates around them, simulating an indoor environment...
Kagey K
Banned
Basketball Court Finder Map – Courts of the World
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Tams
Member
I think you'll find there are many more outdoor courts.Basketball Court Finder Map – Courts of the World
Find the best outdoor and indoor basketball courts. FIBA Endorsed Basketball Court Finder with 60,000 courts worldwide!www.courtsoftheworld.com
That's only ones open to the general public. Considering that most people in the world first or only contact with basketball is through school, it doesn't count them.
So unless you have a list of every hoop, indoor and outdoor, in every publicly owned facility, that doesn't mean much.
It's a playground staple everywhere except maybe suburban America. Do you live somewhere where people only learn basketball at school?
dr_octagon
Banned
Put an LED strip on the ball and you have Tron LeBron-acy.
RJMacready73
Banned
As a European can you please explain why in the fuck you call it a world series when it's only n American teams in it
The other Baseball nations aren't good enough to challenge for the world series. Global baseball fans don't dispute this. MLB teams can nuke just about everybody since they have the best players from all the baseball nations. Europeans who don't follow baseball are the only ones confused.
Kagey K
Banned
The world series of Hooperball?
BadBurger
Many “Whelps”! Handle It!
It actually went through some name changes early on, as it was informally referred to as several different titles long before it was finalized.
But to put it simply, the founders assumed that it would eventually be a global competition. They were under the impression that baseball would spread all over the world like other sports had. Unfortunately, it only remained popular in the Americas early on, with major teams only able to muster the funds to exist within the US and Canada. After WWII it spread to Japan. And now here we are.
bitbydeath
Gold Member
Yep, teams of any age group play indoors, casual play is outdoors.
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It should be primarily indoors, but in practicality, it more leans to outdoor.