Basketball

Basketball was a sport developed on Earth during the 19th century. It involved two teams competing against each other by attempting to get a ball in a basket as many times as possible within the game's time limit.
During the 20th and 21st centuries, basketball was played as a sport for fun or could be played professionally, in a league. Professional games were often televised and shown in bars. ()
Basketball was still played in the 22nd century. One of the launch bays on could be converted into a single-sided basketball court. In 2154, the starship's senior staff (with the exception of Commander T'Pol) played a game of basketball in Launch Bay 2. Doctor Phlox, who found the sport similar to Octran fertility contests, showed that he had superior skill in shot accuracy. ()
Basketball was one of the recreational activities offered at the Daystrom Institute Megalomaniacal AI Penitentiary in 2381. ()
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===Background information===
Most of the basketball outfits worn by the actors in were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. They included the outfits worn by Connor Trinneer, Dominic Keating, Linda Park, and John Billingsley. |TNG guest star James Worthy played professional basketball from 1982-94 for the Los Angeles Lakers, and is a member of the .|Basketball was referred to in a stage direction from the final draft script of ; one or more elaborate badminton "set-ups" (along with badminton gear and other equipment) was to have been visible in the window of Biggs' toy store.
====Apocrypha====
In the of the Star Trek: Ongoing comic series, it is revealed that originally had dreams of being a professional basketball player when he grew up.
In the ization of , Benny Russell played basketball when he was a teenager but considered himself to be too slow to properly play the game. Willie Hawkins was known in Harlem to be an expert basketball player.
In the novel A Stitch in Time, Elim Garak commented that he considered basketball to be "mindless monotony".
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