Video Broadcast : #152
December 24, 2020

Game

Five active players for each team

• Point Guard
• Shooting Guard
• Small Forward
• Power Forward
• Center Forward

Scoring

• Two points (for regular basket)
• Three points (for a shot from beyond the arc)
• One point (for each successful free throw)

Myanmar Basketball

• Black Cat
  Several members played for RASU and Burma
  
• U Thein Han (Maths, RIT)
  Burma Selected
  
• U Soe Win (EP69)
  Captain, RIT
  
• U Tommy Ah Nain (EE)
  RIT Selected
  
• Saw Edison and Saw Orson
  RIT Selected

USA

• NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association)
  64 teams (Later expanded to 65 and 65)
  March Madness

• NBA (National Basketball Association)
  Major winners include Boston Celtics, Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls
  Several European players joined NBA
  Yao Ming (first Chinese player in NBA)

Miscellaneous

• World Championship
  
• Olympics
  USA won the early championships (which allowed only amateurs)
  USSR, Yugoslavia and several nations caught up with USA
  
  For the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, USA sent a “Dream Team” of 11 NBA players and a Collegiate player.
  Larry Bird and Magic Johnson (Co-captains)
  Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen
  Karl Malone and John Stockton
  Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Chris Mullen and Clyde Drexler
  Christian Laettner
  
• Early days : Dominant centers
  
• Later :
  Many three point attempts
  Use three or four guards (for special play)