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9 stories on basketball from SocialSportHub Journal — how its rules, equipment, surfaces and science actually work.
9 stories · 4 kinds of story ·RSS
Explainers
FIBA's cylinder principle gives each player a personal volume of court whose dimensions vary with their height and size. It is the one rule in the book measured in units of the body rather than in metres — and there are two versions of it, depending on who has the ball.
Explainers
Basketball's shot clock has two numbers, and the smaller one is not a discount on the larger. Read against FIBA's Article 29, the fourteen-second reset turns out to be a rule about who lost the ball, not about how much time is left.
An argument about how the sport behaves, with the evidence for it.
Analysis
Basketball's three-point line is defined twice over: as an arc 6.75 m from the basket, and as a pair of straight lines 0.90 m inside the sidelines. On a 15-metre court those two definitions cannot both give the same distance, and the gap they leave is fifteen centimetres wide.
Analysis
How a sport counts is not bookkeeping. It decides whether a disaster is survivable, whether a lead can be defended by running down a clock, and whether a match may end level at all — and football, tennis and volleyball each answered differently.
One mechanism, taken apart carefully.
Explainers
Basketball's no-charge semi-circle is the one area of the court where the same collision changes owner. Part of its boundary is painted on the floor. The rest of it exists only in the rulebook, projected down from the front edge of a backboard three metres in the air.
Explainers
A fencer's lunge and a badminton retrieval are the same shape used for opposite purposes. Sport's variety is a set of recombinations of one short list of human movements — and the list is what makes transfer between sports legible.
Where the table is the argument, and the dataset behind it is published.
Reported from the research rather than the gym floor.
The evergreen pages these 9 stories draw on, most-cited first.
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