BACKGROUND Basketball is the second most popular sport in Nigeria after football and is commonly played by adolescents. Prospective studies on adolescent basketball players in Nigeria are lacking. Such studies will help to develop injury counter-measures. Hence, this study aimed at determining the incidence and pattern of injuries among adolescent basketball players in Nigeria. METHODS A pros...

In this paper, the authors propose a schema for a decision support system for basketball defense strategies using a fuzzy expert system. The authors introduce the original ideas for the proposed schema and the background of the basketball defense strategies. The authors also present the fuzzy input and output attributes for the fuzzy expert system according to the domain knowledge from the bask...

Discovering temporal patterns in large datasets is a challenging problem because researchers must explore a huge space of possible correlations. EventScope is a visualization and ranking tool to assist in identification of temporal patterns leading to, or following, different events. In order to identify non-trivial patterns, EventScope splits the data based on user-specified reference events. ...

Nothing has taken place in the realm of sports thus far; the gym has been relatively empty except for that abortion billed as a concert last Friday night. It's a great facility for basketball games but I couldn't understand a word uttered by either group. Probably more of a pain that the concert itself was the hassle to get tickets. The computer hadn't processed my date's student tax card yet a...

The purpose of this article was to verify (a) whether a basketball test battery could classify players with an intellectual disability and with low basketball skill level, (b) basketball abilities before and after an 8-mth training in players with intellectual disability in relation to low and moderate level skill players, and (c) variation of specific basketball abilities based on level of int...

Spinal cord injury leads to a pronounced reduction of cardiovascular, pulmonary, and metabolic ability. Physical activity, up to and including high-performance sports, has obtained importance in the course of rehabilitation and the postclinical phase. Thirteen elite female wheelchair basketball players from the German National Basketball Team and 10 female sedentary spinal cord-injured persons ...

Stretching is often included as part of a warm-up procedure for basketball activity. However, the efficacy of stretching with respect to sport performance has come into question. We determined the effects of 4 different warm-up protocols followed by 20 minutes of basketball activity on flexibility and vertical jump height. Subjects participated in 6 weeks (2 times per week) of warm-up and baske...

The sport of basketball exposes athletes to frequent high intensity movements including sprinting, jumping, accelerations, decelerations and changes of direction during training and competition which can lead to acute and accumulated chronic fatigue. Fatigue may affect the ability of the athlete to perform over the course of a lengthy season. The ability of practitioners to quantify the workloa...

To date, no published data exists on distances and speeds traveled by rugby or basketball players during game play. The purpose of this study was to provide quantitative information of selected characteristics of wheelchair basketball and rugby game play. A miniaturized data logger was used to collect the distance traveled, average velocity, activity time, and number of starts and stops during ...

Sport specific training in basketball players should focus on vertical jump height and agility in consistent with demands of the sport. Since plyometrics training improves vertical jump height and agility, it can be useful training strategy to improve the performance of basketball players. A convenience sample of thirty professional basketball players were recruited. Following pre-intervention ...