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Basketball game aboard Enterprise

The crew of Enterprise playing a game

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. (VOY: "11:59")

Statues of basketball players stood outside the Staples Center in 2024. (PIC: "Watcher")

Basketball was still played in the 22nd century. One of the launch bays on Enterprise 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. (ENT: "The Forge")

Basketball was one of the recreational activities offered at the Daystrom Institute Megalomaniacal AI Penitentiary in 2381. (LD: "A Few Badgeys More")

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Most of the basketball outfits worn by the actors in "The Forge" were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. They included the outfits worn by Connor Trinneer, [1](X) Dominic Keating, [2](X) Linda Park, [3](X) and John Billingsley. [4](X)|TNG guest star James Worthy played professional basketball from 1982-94 for the Los Angeles Lakers, and is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame.|Basketball was referred to in a stage direction from the final draft script of TOS: "Miri"; 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.

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In the seventeenth issue of the Star Trek: Ongoing comic series, it is revealed that Leonard McCoy originally had dreams of being a professional basketball player when he grew up.

In the novelization of Far Beyond the Stars, 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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