The Academy of Basketball

The basketball academy is a sport institution that is focus on providing their students a successful basketball training to develop the sport fundamentals, endurance fitness exercises and the main skills of the sport. The academy of basketball teaches their students the proper ways of ball handling, ball passing, shooting, dribbling, rebounding, offensive and defensive moves, ethics and rules for basketball, etc.

The history of basketball academy comes back to the year 1891. A physical professor and instructor of the YMCA called James Naismith was on the process on inventing an indoor sport for its students that attended the gym on the rainy season. He wrote several rules and ideas for this sport. The first balls that were used for the sport were brown. In the 1950s the color of the ball was changed to orange for more visibility. Basketball is a team sport form by two teams of five players each. The mission of the players is to score points by inserting the ball into the basket. This sport is known as one of the world's most viewed and popular.

Nowadays there are several men and women basketball leagues worldwide. One of the most popular league is called the National Basketball Association (NBA). NBA is a professional league for men located in North America. The basketball academy involves their students in various basketball tournaments for skill improvement and recreation. The essential equipment for basketball is the basketball court and the ball. For professional basketball there needs to be present the scoreboard, clock, score sheets, etc.