First, it would put your team in advantageous position, specially if the opponents would foul you. Second, developing your free throw would help you develop your other shooting techniques. But making sure that the ball would get into the net is hard since there is a lot of pressure when you are on the line. Before buying all the gear needed for playing basketball, you must determine first the real reasons why you want to engage in sport. For some, they play basketball because they want to lose weight while for others, it s because they enjoy playing with others. By determining and establishing your reason/s why you would want to play basketball, you can use these as motivations continue with it. Just like in choosing the usual shoes, shop your pair of basketball shoes after your practice. When you fit the shoes while your feet are swollen, you can get the right size for you. 3. The style of the shoes. Although this is not really a major consideration in terms of appearance, the overall design or style of the basketball shoes you will be buying should fit your needs. If played regularly, basketball can help people prevent and even cure illnesses of the heart. Aside from conditioning the heart and lungs, playing basketball can also help control the body s fat along with proper diet and strength training, increase the body s resistance to fatigue resulting to the supply of extra energy, helps achieve toned muscles and could increase a person s body mass, prevents stress, vital to good sleep and can generally the person s stamina. Basketball is a game that only requires a basket, a ball, and at least two players. It is invented by Dr. James Naismith in 1891 by nailing two peach baskets to the balconies on opposite ends of a YMCA gym in Springfield, Massachusetts. Two centuries after, it became an unofficial pastime of nearly all races especially Americans. The last but not the least that are enshrined in 2009 into the Hall of Fame is Vivian Stringer. She won more than 800 victories. Her coaching career started at Cheyney State where she coached alongside John Chaney. One of her achievements includes leading a historically black college into the first NCAA women s Final Four in 1982.