International Basketball

"Basketball has become a global phenomenon. According to Jane Boxall (2010) basketball was being played in many foreign countries by the year 1930. The sport of basketball was finally recognized by the International Olympic committee that same year. Jane Boxall (2010) “FIBA was formed a few years later; it is an International Basketball Federation. FIBA stands for its original French name -- Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur. When FIBA was first formed there were eight original countries and they included Czechoslovakia, Greece, Argentina, Italy, Romania, Latvia, Portugal and Switzerland.” Jane Boxall (2010) “In the year 1989 FIBA put the national members of the federation into five distinct zones, they were America, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Europe. In December of 2010 there were 213 national federations in the organization.”

Retrieved from a paper I wrote for my Graduation Review Class