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James Naismith ( November 6 , 1861  November 28 , 1939 ) was a Canadian - ___MASK99___ physical educator , physician , chaplain , sports coach and innovator . He invented the game of basketball at age 30 in 1891 . He wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program . Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament ( 1938 ) and the NCAA Tournament ( 1939 ). Basketball is a sport that is played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court . The objective is to shoot a ball through a hoop in diameter and mounted at a height of to backboards at each end of the court . The game was invented in 1891 by Dr . James Naismith , who would be the first basketball coach of the Kansas Jayhawks , one of the most successful programs in the game ' s history . The world is the planet ___MASK11___ and all life upon it , including human civilization . In a philosophical context , the world is the whole of the physical Universe , or an ontological world . In a theological context , the " world " is the material or the profane sphere , as opposed to the celestial , spiritual , transcendent or sacred . The " end of the world " refers to scenarios of the final end of human history , often in religious contexts . Glorietta is a large shopping mall in the Ayala Center , Makati , Metro Manila , ___MASK87___ . The mall is owned by the Zobel de Ayala family and operated through its holding company , the Ayala Corporation . The mall is divided into five sections ( named Glorietta 1  5 ) and contains many shops and restaurants , as well as cinemas , a gym , arcades and a large central activity center , often used to stage events . The Philippine Basketball Association ( PBA ) is a men ' s professional basketball league in the ___MASK87___ composed of twelve company - branded franchised teams . It is the first professional basketball league in Asia and is the second oldest continuously existing in the world after the NBA . The league ' s regulations are a hybrid of rules from the NBA . The Philippine Basketball League ( PBL ) was a commercial semi - professional basketball league in the ___MASK87___ . The league is composed of several commercial teams with several collegiate and provincial stars . The De La Salle Green Archers ( also The Green Archers ) are the men ' s varsity teams representing De La Salle University . The women ' s varsity teams are referred to as the DLSU Lady Booters / De La Salle Lady Archers and / or the De La Salle Lady Spikers . The school ' s varsity teams participate in the University Athletic Association of the ___MASK87___ , among others . La Salle is represented in the high school level by De La Salle Zobel , and are known as the Junior Archers . De La Salle University ( Tagalog : " Pamantasang De La Salle ") ( also referred to as DLSU or La Salle ) is a Roman Catholic , Lasallian research university in Taft Avenue , Malate , Manila , ___MASK87___ . It was founded in 1911 by De La Salle Brothers as the De La Salle College in Paco , Manila with Blimond Pierre serving as its first director . The educational institution moved on September 1921 to its present location to facilitate the increase in enrollment . DLSU , granted university status in February 1975 , is the oldest constituent of De La Salle ___MASK87___ ( DLSP ), a network of 17 Lasallian institutions established in 2006 to replace the De La Salle University System . The 2003 Philippine Basketball Association ( PBA ) rookie draft was an event at which teams drafted players from the amateur ranks . It was held on January 12 , 2003 at the Glorietta Activity Center at Makati City . The University Athletic Association of the ___MASK87___ ( UAAP ), established in 1938 , is a collegiate athletic association of eight Metro Manila universities in the ___MASK87___ . Members include Adamson University ( AdU ), Ateneo de Manila University ( ADMU ), De La Salle University ( DLSU ), Far Eastern University ( FEU ), National University ( NU ), University of the East ( UE ), University of the ___MASK87___ ( UP ), and University of Santo Tomas ( UST ). Varsity teams from these universities compete annually in fifteen sports to vie for the overall championship title , namely , badminton , baseball , basketball , beach volleyball , chess , fencing , football , judo , softball , swimming , table tennis , taekwondo , tennis , track and field , and volleyball . Mike Cortez ( born November 10 , 1980 ) is a Filipino - ___MASK99___ professional basketball player who will play for the Blackwater Elite in the Philippine Basketball Association . Cortez gained prominence in the amateur ranks for the De La Salle Green Archers in the UAAP and the ICTSI Archers in the Philippine Basketball League . In 2003 , he was the first overall pick of Alaska Aces in the 2003 PBA draft . Asia is ___MASK11___ ' s largest and most populous continent , located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres and sharing the continental landmass of Eurasia with the continent of Europe . Asia covers an area of , about 30 % of ___MASK11___ ' s total land area and 8 . 7 % of the ___MASK11___ ' s total surface area . The continent , which has long been home to the majority of the human population , was the site of many of the first civilizations . Asia is notable for not only its overall large size and population , but also dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4 . 4 billion people . The ___MASK87___ , officially the Republic of the ___MASK87___ , is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean . It consists of about 7 , 641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geographical divisions from north to south : Luzon , Visayas , and Mindanao . The capital city of the ___MASK87___ is Manila and the most populous city is Quezon City , both part of Metro Manila . Bounded by the South China Sea on the west , the Philippine Sea on the east and the Celebes Sea on the southwest , the ___MASK87___ shares maritime borders with Taiwan to the north , Vietnam to the west , Palau to the east and Malaysia and Indonesia to the south .