Team ball sports played on a court in which the aim is to throw a ball through a raised hoop. Basketball and netball are the type cases, differing in the rules on movement with the ball, the number of players and the shape of the court. What belongs here is a team court sport scored through a hoop. Every sport filed in this group belongs to the Court and Net Team Sports category and has its own entry in the Sport and Games Atlas, from which a reader can follow links on to its leading athletes, its competitions and the governing bodies that set its rules.
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Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players each (excluding substitutes) oppose one another on a rectangular court.
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The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own.
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