Academic Year 2014 – 2015
BASKETBALL AS A SPORT AND THE POSITIVE EFFECTS OF CHOOSING IT AS THEIR SPORT
Antonio Jan Marcella WONG
Thesis Adviser: Professor Jeremie A. Monter
A Thesis Proposal Submitted
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
INTRODUCTION
Everyone has their sport to play. Some have three, two, or only one sport, but it is not possible that a person does not play any sport. So how do people choose what sport to play? Is it influenced by their age or what their gender is? There are so many factors that may influence a choice of a person. In this research paper, we will focus in one sport, which is basketball. …show more content…
Why do people choose basketball as their sport?
3. Basic rules for basketball.
DISCUSSION
An Insight to Basketball
People play sports for benefits. We all know that people respond to incentives. Basketball is a sport with so many benefits like any other sport. As I research about this sport, basketball is a very popular sport. Regardless of the age differences, everyone seems to like it. It is very entertaining to watch and a sport you will enjoy.
Knowing that there are several benefits on playing basketball, there are also a lot of negative effects of this sport. Injuries inflicted by this sport may be minor or major injuries. How do we handle these kinds of injuries? Even professional players like Derrick Rose, Dwight Howard and many other popular athletes of this sport gets injured through time. There is no excuse for not playing basketball, we should take risks from time to time. No risk, no reward.
Basketball Rules Basketball is a team sport. It is a contact sport which means player do have physical contact not like any other team sports. In this sport, players on both teams gets to play both offense and defense. Players score points by shooting the ball through hoops. You get points by throwing the ball through the opponent's hoop or basket. The winner of the game is the team with the leading points. In this part we will discuss basic rules that a player should