Basketball

Basketball is a human competitive team sport. In basketball, the object of the game is to move the ball down a court and throwing it through a 10 foot high hoop, while preventing the opposing team from doing the same. The game was played at a number of levels, including amateur, high school, college, and professionally. The game was one of the most popular spectator sports in the United States.

While baseball had mostly died out on Earth by the 2040s, basketball remained popular well into the 22nd century. One of the shuttlebays of the Earth Starfleet vessel Enterprise (NX-01) was designed so that it could be converted into a basketball court. At one point, with the exception of T'Pol, the entire senior staff played a game of basketball in the shuttlebay. (ENT episode The Forge).

A variation of basketball, known as Aztec basketball became popular in the 24th century. (SCE eBook: Enigma Ship).