Hoopedia:About
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Somewhere in Serbia a young player stuns a handful of friends by leaping entirely over his opponent on the way to the hoop. Meanwhile, on a blacktop in South Philly, a local kid is breaking ankles while he reinvents the game for the next generation. School-age kids in Samoa are learning to pass the ball around the perimeter to beat the zone. And a girl in Kokomo shovels off the snow on her driveway to practice her 20-foot jump shot.
Basketball is truly a world sport, played in over 200 countries, more than 50 professional leagues, thousands of schools and churches and barns, and on countless neighborhood blacktops.
We hope Hoopedia becomes the meeting place for the world sport of basketball.
We've been working to fill Hoopedia with history and trivia on basketball.
What levels are covered? All levels: Professional, college, high school, amateur
What kinds of games? All varieties: hardcourt, playground, reservation, farmyard, wheelchair
What eras? All eras: From LeBron James and Yao Ming to Dr. J and Wilt Chamberlain to Bob Cousy to Tarzan Cooper to Nat Holman and back to James Naismith and the peach baskets he hung up in the chilly gym in Springfield
Where? For now, only the Planet Earth: from New York to Long Beach to Shanghai; from Belgrade to Milan to Buenos Aires; from Sitka, Alaska to Windhoek, Namibia to Patagonia, Argentina.
Who are we covering? Only males, females, young, old, in-between. Everybody who plays, has played, will play, watches others play, plays virtually or wishes they could play.
From great moments and great players to the rules of the game and the latest theories on stats, strategy and player performance. From dunks and set shots to Wheaties boxes and movies.
You get the idea.
But we can't do it by ourselves. We need basketball fans all over the world to help turn Hoopedia into the greatest resource ever compiled about all aspects of the game we love. Let's share what we know about international leagues and players, street ball, college and high school history and teams, basketball in the movies and on game machines. Share the love!
Join the community and celebrate The Game.
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