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It is a team sport, played between two teams of five players each during four periods or quarters of ten or twelve minutes each. The team's objective is to score points by putting a ball through the basket, a hoop 3.05 meters above the playing court surface from which a net hangs. The score for each basket or basket is two or three points, depending on the position from which the shot to the basket is made, or one, if it is a free throw due to a foul by an opposing player. The winning team is the one with the highest number of points. How many are the basketball teams?