Abstract
Individual excellence has improved continually as athletes have sought to meet new standards through the implementation of scientifically controlled diets, training methods, and techniques. Team excellence and spectator interest, likewise, has been improved by the use of these scientific advancements and by legislation which has been passed in team sports to allow the growth of the sport to parallel the growth of the participants. The high quality of equipment and facilities, the elimination of the center jump after baskets, and the widening of the key area are examples of the growth in basketball. Taking these ideas into consideration, this study was motivated by a desire to evaluate the possibility that further legislation was needed to keep the game of basketball abreast with the phenomenal physical and technical growth of players.