Editing Basketball (section)

==Social forms of basketball==
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Basketball as a social and communal sport features environments, rules and demographics different from those seen in professional and televised basketball.

=== Recreational basketball ===
Basketball is played widely as an extracurricular, intramural or amateur sport in schools and colleges. Notable institutions of recreational basketball include:
* '''Basketball schools and academies''', where students are trained in developing basketball fundamentals, undergo fitness and endurance exercises and learn various basketball skills. Basketball students learn proper ways of passing, ball handling, dribbling, shooting from various distances, rebounding, offensive moves, defense, [[layup]]s, screens, basketball rules and basketball ethics. Also popular are the basketball camps organized for various occasions, often to get prepared for basketball events, and basketball clinics for improving skills.
* '''College and university basketball''' played in educational institutions of higher learning. This includes [[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] (NCAA) intercollegiate basketball.

=== Disabled basketball ===
* '''[[Deaf basketball]]''': One of several deaf sports, deaf basketball relies on signing for communication. Any deaf sporting event that happens, its purpose is to serve as a catalyst for the socialization of a low-incidence and geographically dispersed population.<ref>{{cite book |last=Stewart |first=David Alan |title=Deaf Sport: the Impact of Sports within the Deaf Community |publisher=[[Gallaudet University Press]] |year=1991 |url=https://archive.org/details/deafsportimpacto00stew |url-access=registration |pages=[https://archive.org/details/deafsportimpacto00stew/page/234 234] |isbn=9780930323745}}</ref>
* '''[[Wheelchair basketball]]''': A sport based on basketball but designed for [[disability|disabled]] people in [[wheelchair]]s and considered one of the major [[disabled sports]] practiced. There is a functional classification system that is used to help determine if the wheelchair basketball player classification system reflects the existing differences in the performance of elite female players. This system gives an analysis of the players' functional resources through field-testing and game observation. During this system's process, players are assigned a score of 1 to 4.5.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Relationship between Functional Potential and Field Performance in Elite Female Wheelchair Basketball Players |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |doi=10.1080/02640410310001655750 |first1=Yves C |last1=Vanlandewijck |first2=Christina |last2=Evaggelinou |first3=Daniel J |last3=Daly |first4=Joeri |last4=Verellen |first5=Siska |last5=Van Houtte |first6=Vanessa |last6=Aspeslagh |first7=Robby |last7=Hendrickx |first8=Tine |last8=Piessens |first9=Bjorn |last9=Zwakhoven |pages=668–675 |date=December 3, 2003 |oclc=23080411 |journal=[[Journal of Sports Sciences]] |volume=22 |issue=7 |pmid=15370498 |s2cid=27418917 |issn=0264-0414}}</ref>

=== Other forms ===
* '''[[Biddy basketball]]''' played by minors, sometimes in formal tournaments, around the globe.
* '''[[Midnight basketball]]''', an initiative to curb inner-city crime in the United States and elsewhere by engaging youth in urban areas with sports as an alternative to drugs and crime.
* '''[[Rezball]]''', short for reservation ball, is the avid [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] following of basketball, particularly a style of play particular to Native American teams of some areas.