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Basketball is one of the most popular played sports in America. It has been played since the early 1900’s. Young children, teens, and adults have played this sport every day at their public basketball courts or at their own homes. While they are enjoying the benefit of the fun of the game, and terrific physical exercise, there are other wonderful lifelong skills being developed. While participating in basketball, they are learning valuable life lessons such as being team, task, and goal-oriented. These lessons will help people throughout their lifetime. In playing basketball a player must learn how to work with his teammates to win the game. It takes communication and coordinated movements with the fellow players to make a great winning team. When a person does not pass the ball to another open teammate because he is trying to do everything by himself to win, the entire team can suffer. A lot of people like to call this person a "ball hog" because they keep the ball all to themselves. In life, people