Basketball is a team sport played by two teams of five players on a court. The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop. Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in 1891 while working at the YMCA Training School in Massachusetts, using two peach baskets as the first goals. Basketball was introduced to the Philippines in the late 1800s by the YMCA and has since become very popular, with the Philippines winning numerous medals at the Asian Games and Southeast Asian Games since the 1950s.

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