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Basketball has been adopted by various social groups, which have established their own environments and sometimes their own rules. Such socialized forms of basketball include the following.

Recreational basketball, where fun, entertainment and camaraderie rule rather than winning a game; 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, layups, 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. In the past years, a substantial amount of research has been conducted in an effort to determine significant predictor variables, such as demographic and educational criteria of student athletes academic achievement Although some coaches and athletes often believe student athletes, athletetic role supersedes their academic integration on campus, many students revere and even idolize faculty members, and, consequently, faculty develop and cultivate meaningful relationships with many college students This includes National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) intercollegiate basketball. Disabled basketball played by various disabled groups, such as Bankshot basketball,[84] Deaf basketball, Deaf basketball is just one of many deaf sports. Deaf sports is a social institution where deaf people practice their right to self determination through organization, competition, and socialization. The most important thing about deaf basketball and other deaf sports is it's social sphere, which develops in a deaf environment that relies on signing for communication. Any deaf sporting event that happens, it's purpose is to serve as a catalyst for the socialization of a low-incidence and geographically dispersed population. There can be many difficult problems with deaf basketball involving the coach and the deaf athlete. One major common problem that goes on in deaf sports is when coaches uses traditional training styles when coaching a deaf athlete. In this type of situation it is very important for coaches to adapt to the needs of deaf basketball players. The way that coaches adapt to the needs of a deaf basketball is a method of controlling the training process. To help the advancement of a deaf basketball player they would set up a multi-color LED lightnings on two basketball posts under the boards at eye level of the player. Than the coach could use the remote to give instructions. Every color has it's own action, which ever color comes up on the LED lightnings that's the action the coach wants the deaf player to perform.

Wheelchair basketball, a sport based on basketball but designed for disabled people in wheelchairs 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 performance of elite female players. what this system does is it 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.

Ethnic and Religion-based basketball: Examples of ethnic basketball include Indo-Pak or Russian or Armenian leagues in the United States or Canada, for example, or Filipino expatriate basketball leagues in the Gulf or the United States. Religion-based basketball includes, most notably, church-related Christian basketball leagues, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu basketball leagues, and so on. or denominational leagues like Coptic, Syriac/Assyrian basketball leagues in the United States or Canada. Gay basketball played in gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities in gay basketball leagues. The sport of basketball is a major part of events during the Gay Games, World Outgames and EuroGames. Midnight basketball, a basketball initiative to curb inner-city crime in the United States and elsewhere by keeping urban youth off the streets and engaging them with sports alternatives to drugs and crime. Mini basketball played by underage children. Maxi Basketball played by more elderly individuals. Prison basketball, practiced in prisons and penitentiary institutions. Active religious basketball missionary groups also play basketball with prisoners. Some prisons have developed their own prison basketball leagues. At times, non-prisoners may play in such leagues, provided all home and away games are played within prison courts. Film director Jason Moriarty has released a documentary relating to the sport, entitled Prison Ball. Prison systems in the United States makes about $74 billion a year. The reason why prisons make so much money in a year is because the fact that over 2.3 million Americans are currently incarcerated. It all started in started in 1972, the number of people in United States prison has increased over 700% and now charges the taxpayer $39 billion to maintain every year. US population is only a little smaller than countries like Iceland, Estonia and Cyprus combined, so it's not a surprise that the US penal system has developed it's own type of subculture. There is a lot of people that when they hear "correctional facility" think about men behind bars and playing card and lifting weights in the yard. That's almost correct but most people don't know that there is a wide range of athletic opportunities available in today's penitentiaries. Prison leagues is becoming the best way and most popular way inmates spend their time. For younger offenders, basketball is a good way to get their lives back on track, but for long term prisoners, these basketball leagues is a great way for them to get away from all their daily problems. Some prison leagues sometimes get blessed with their own celebrities. "Pee Wee" Kirkland who was drafted by the Chicago Bulls, but turned it down because he was making way more money in the drug world. Eventually go caught up and arrested,he than found himself playing in the Anthracite Basketball League, representing Lewis-burgh penitentiary. Also another celebrity Michael Vick used the football prison league to stay in shape. Some other big names that played in prison basketball leagues is Allen Iverson, JR Smith and Plaxico Burress, for some prison leagues can be a valuable training ground. Rezball, short for reservation ball, is the avid Native American following of basketball, particularly a style of play particular to Native American teams of some areas. School or High school basketball, the sport of basketball being one of the most frequently exercised and popular sports in all school systems. Show basketball as performed by entertainment basketball show teams, the prime example being the Harlem Globetrotters. There are even specialized entertainment teams, including Celebrity basketball teams made of celebrities (actors, singers, and so on.) playing in their own leagues or in public, often for entertainment and charity events; Midget basketball teams made up of athletes of short stature offering shows using basketball; Slamball offered as entertainment events. Slamball is a very intense form of basketball game actually it's an elevated game of basketball that's infused with football tactics and involves bouncing of a trampolines. This game is very popular in places like Europe and Australia, this intense game is full of contact just like football the trampolines are embedded in the floor around the baskets. The objective of the game is just like any sport you have to score points by getting the ball into the basket, this is mostly done by the player using the trampoline to go fly high in the air to come down with slam dunk. Not only do they use tactics from football but they also do the same style of substitution as hockey well you can say it's very similar. The potions of slamball are stopper, gunner and handler. The stopper is the defender and is in control of the whole defensive plan. The handler is basically the point guard of the game, their in control of setting plays on the offensive end and helps a little on defensive end as well. The last position the gunner is the one that does most of the scoring and all also helps out on the defensive end. Transgender in sports, Transgender has become a real issue in some sports and will soon leak into basketball. There was a court case on May 1, 2019 and it was the highest court in international sports. On May 1, 2019 there was a ruling that will force female track athletes with increased levels of testosterone to take suppressants to compete in certain women's races at major international events for example like Olympics. This is a big issue in the sports world period and this is a issue that all sports including basketball will have face. At the court case there was many questions involving fair play, gender identity, biology and human rights that the world of track and field has been facing with for a decade. Competitions are divided into male and female categories, the next step for society is finding out what is the most equitable way to decide who should be eligible to compete in women's events.