The paradoxical traits of us humans are our capacity to cooperate for a common purpose and our capacity to compete against each other. Human capacity to cooperate is best demonstrated in our development of civilizations. On the other hand, our competitive instinct is demonstrated worst in our destructive wars. It seems that humans have the penchant for organized chaos. The more productive and less violent demonstration of human cooperation and competition is in sports, particularly team sports. Team sports are showcase of skills and highly organized collective effort. The prize may be just a trophy or applause of the crowd, but the satisfaction that each team member gets in winning is worth all the effort.
Team sport is not as simple as
gym exercise. Team sport is a purposeful and coordinated effort. Team sports may come in different forms. A
professional golf game can be a team sport. Sport fishing can be a team sport. One popular team sport that can be played indoors is basketball. Basketball is usually played by two opposing team with at five members each. The objective of the game is to score points by shooting a ball through a basket hoop. Unlike other sports, basketball is invented by only one person. It was in the early December of the year 1891 that Dr.
James Naismith, a Canadian-born physician and minister of a college, conceived the idea of inventing an indoor game to keep young men occupied during long winters.
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