''Do you want to know the basics of basketball?'' by Agam S.

 In sports there are a lot that can be practised by athletes. Basketball is one of the most physical and mental sports. How can that affect our body?  Basketball is a very fun sport. It is also one of the most important sports. You may ask why? Because of its mental and physical game, it is a very tough sport to master and is also a sport which can have lots of benefits.

In the world of basketball there are people who play it amateurly and professionally. There is something that they have in common is that, why do people get so involved with basketball? 

According to  STACK NJ/NY and Better Health Channel people get so involved with basketball because it is popular around the world, it is also accessible,easy to play, teaches teamwork like passing the ball using physical and mental together and it is very fun. For safety and protection there are equipment in basketball to prevent you from being hurt because basketball can have lots of movement and can hurt some body parts by avoiding painless and hurtful injuries. One of the equipments is: Basketball or Sports shoes that contain some kind of ankle support and also traction which is good for dribbling and shooting accurately. Mouth guards because of physical tackles which can be less hurtful and protective knee and elbow pads when falling hard, or when blocking the basketball so hard it can have some risk of dislocating the elbow or hands. Moving on, the thing that is not so harmful is that basketball can help with socialising with other people who are strangers or that you are not friends with. All that according to   STACK NJ/NY and Better Health Channel.

According to experts and common people's opinions, basketball combines both physical skills and complex tactical elements that must be processed by the player. Put that under the aspect that anything they do out there must be decided in a second at the most and you get a first glimpse at the sport. It can be very stressful because of the rhythm and flow of the game. In basketball we need a lot of speed and strength.

Some basketball enthusiast, fans and ex professional players say that basketball can be hard depending on the play you are going to do can be complexity of the mental game and when getting physical in games to some advantages but the disadvantages is that there is some risk of hurting and injuring all of this according quora .

Kobe Bryant was very involved with basketball because his father and mother were professional athletes. His father, Joe Bryant, played basketball professionally for multiple years. He would go to his father's games and watch him play his wonderful game.

As a young Kobe Bryant he started playing basketball and quickly began to develop his skills and soon became one of the best in his age group and he was only 6 years old. As he got older, he got better and was one of the best wing guards, which would be a wing in both an area of the court and a player position. The wing area of the court is the outer part of the floor along the sidelines. Wing players are typically shooting guards and small forwards, according to this article Rookie Road ,but sadly he died at 26 of january 2020 because of a helicopter accident.

Kobe Bryant can be very influential off court. Some examples of influencing is that he had multi-millionaire deals with one of the biggest sports shoes company Nike, the biggest if not the largest fast-food chain Mcdonalds and the compelling differently addictive fizzy drink Coca-Cola, by he getting sponsored by this giant companies he decided to make his own and also write a lot of books two example is his autobiography and his children book, all of this information about the black mamba was according to by Readwrite. Because basketball is so involving it can affect our mental health.

Basketball can get very physical when playing the game, we all wonder and know what happens in the body of the professional basketball players or just amateur players but how can basketball affect your mental health? According to NCBI basketball has some effect on your mental health like boosting and building self confidence and increasing self- esteem and being confident in what you do. It can also improve sleep and reduce stress. During a basketball session you can feel dopamine and endorphins, endorphins when pain is relieved and dopamine motivates. 

Some ways that people that practise basketball be mentally prepared is by meditate which according to research it can help psychological stress,  by setting goals the basketball player will be motivated, it will also improve what is still missing for them, and can have different behaviour in certain thing on life like : Training and daily lifestyle and by visualising your success in will motivate your mindset. 

Sometimes sports can be very stressful, including in basketball. A player named Kawhi Leonard lost his father in his basketball carries, as images show he doesn't smile or show emotion half of his happens because "I just try to stay locked into the game. It feels like when people are most serious, they play their best basketball. Nobody's smiling in the fourth quarter," said by him and half because his father lost. Not only can basketball affect our mental health, it can also affect our physical health. 

A basketball player can not play basketball without a fully functioning body, it has to have a mental capacity to comprehend and a physical body, in addition sometimes your physique can have a breakdown and the question is: how that impacts our physique for basketball?

Basketball can improve playing basketball for your physique because it is an excellent way to get in shape and stay active, according to Masterclass can also help self-discipline and addition develop concentration.

There are also ways that basketball can have a negative impact on playing for our physique, one example is over playing, that according to articles playing too much basketball can put loads of stress in our body, injure the lower body and ankle sprains.

So are you going to try basketball? If you are out of luck getting taller it's not a problem, basketball is good and it will be good for our overall health. In my opinion it is also a very important thing to know that our mental health and physical health is in a good state and that our health can be very important in our daily lives and in basketball, same as physical and mental health. Start hoping!