Plural of basket; containers woven or made from flexible materials like wicker, or the nets used in basketball games.
From Old North French 'bascauda,' likely borrowed from a pre-Romance language, possibly Iberian. The word originally referred to woven containers made from reeds or willow, and the meaning expanded to include any similar receptacle, including the basketball goal.
The basketball hoop is called a 'basket' because early basketball used actual peach baskets nailed to walls—James Naismith literally repurposed fruit baskets when inventing the game in 1891, and the name stuck even after nets replaced solid baskets.
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