Competitions Project: Olympic Games - Basketball

                        BASKETBALL
Created in 1891 in the United States by a physical education teacher, the basketball is a game in which is played by two teams of 10 players (5 in court and 7 reserves) which aims pass the ball inside the opponent's basket.
      Basket is the common name we give to the act of making the ball go through the hoop, so punctuating.        RULES
    Despite having been changes of rules in recente times, the main are:
* DURATION OF THE GAME: Four times/periods of 10 minutes.
* BEGINNING OF THE GAME: Begins with the lauch of the ball in the air by the referee between two opponent's player in the center circle.
* BALL REPLACEMENTS: After the award of a foul, the game resumes on the sidelines. After a goal, the ball starts at the bottom line with the team that conceded the score.
* HOW TO PLAY THE BALL: Always with his hands and can't walk with the ball, using only dribbles or passes, talking into consideration that it is forbidden to dribble with both hands at the same time.
*SCORES: There are several forms of punctuation in basketball, they are:
    • Within the lane - 2 scores
    • Outside the line of 6,25 m - 3 scores
    • Free Throw - 1 score
* A TIE: The game can't end a tied and the tie occurs with an additional period of 5 minutes or as may be necessary for a team to be considered sucessful.
* RESULTS: Win who scored more points during the match.
* FREE THROW: Wen a fault occurs, the player who was to make two free throws, and the second pitch has rebound (both team player who is throwing, as the opponent team can catch the ball an continue the game, unless she leaves the court.
* HELD BALL: When two players hold the ball at the same time, it will be considered held ball. In this case, the ball goes to the team who have team basket in his side.
* TRANSITION FROM FIELD: After passing the middle line, the team can't go with the ball.
* STEPS: The player can't take more than two steps with the ball in hand.
* NUMBER OF FAULT: A player who commits five faults will be suspended the mach, having to be replaced.
* RULE OF THE 5 SECONDS: The player can stay in contact with the ball at mostra by 5 seconds.
* RULE OF THE 3 SECONDS: A player can't stay for more than 3 seconds in the lane area without the ball.
* RULE OF THE 8 SECONDS: The team has up to 8 seconds to move from the backcourt to the frontcourt.
* RULE OF THE 24 SECONDS: The team has up to 24 seconds to throw the ball in the basket after moving to the frontcourt.
* COLLECTIVE FAULTS: After the fourth offense commited within a certain time, all charges will be free throw.
* BASKET HEIGHT: The height of the hoop to the ground must be 3,05 m.

THE BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER
OFF ALL TIME

   * MICHAEL JORDAN: Six titles in the NBA, elected five times MVP (Most Valuable Player), and it is the third best scorer in the NBA with 32.292 scores.
   * MAGIC JOHNSON: Five titles in the NBA, and elected three times MVP.
   * KAREEM ABDUL-JABAR: Six titles MVP, the highest scorer in the NBA with 38.387 scores and the largest number of minutes player in NBA over fifty-seven thousand minutes.
    * LARRY BIRD: Three titles in the NBA and three consecutives times MVP.
    * WILT CHAMBERLAIN: Two titles in the NBA and he made more than thrty-one scores in his career.
    * OSCAR SCHMDT: Brazilian player holds the world record of the basketball puctuation with 49.737 scores.
   * HORTÊNCIA MARCARI: Brazilian player is the scorer in the history of brazilian women with 3.160 scores.

   In the 2016 Olympics the basketball is completing twenty participations in Olympics Games. His debut was in Berlim, in 1936.