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Women’s basketball was officially added as an Olympic medal sport during the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics.

Basketball is the national sport of Lithuania.

Officially approved balls should have between 7 1/2 and 8 1/2 pounds of pressure.

As per official rules, a minimum of nine balls are to be provided for each team for pre-game warmups.

Official rules state that the cord basketball net should not be less than 30 thread and not more than 120 thread.

All official basketball floors are made from hard maple.

Basketball season starts late October and ends mid-April of the following year.

The official rim height for courts is set at 10 ft or 3.05 meters.

The official basketball size for women’s competitive basketball is size 6.

The official basketball size for men’s competitive basketball is size 7.

The shortest male inductee of the Basketball Hall of Fame is 5’3″ or 160 cm

The Olympic basketball games were held outdoors, in modified tennis courts.

Basketball first became an official Olympics event during the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics

There have been two women drafted in the NBA

The shot clock was firstly adopted during the 1954-1955 season

MJ paid fines for wearing his shoes

Dribbling wasn't allowed

Basketball was played with a different ball

James Naismith invented basketball

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