Wheelchair basketball is a fast-paced game played by two teams of five players where the object is to shoot the ball into the opposing team’s basket, scoring the most points at the end of the game.

That’s where Katie’s Komets, a wheelchair basketball program, was putting on a showcase game. While this contest might not have generated the interest of the championship games played later in ...

The men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball tournaments will be held from Thursday, Aug. 29 to Sunday, Sept. 8 during the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games. Wheelchair basketball originated as a ...

Patrick Anderson was just a kid at sports camp when he played wheelchair basketball for the first time. "I rolled onto the court, picked up a ball, and I was sort of transformed," he recalls.

Of all sports, wheelchair basketball is perhaps the most truly inclusive. If a high school edge rusher racks up 20 sacks in 10 games but is a prisoner to a 5 feet, 10 inches, 160 pound frame, then ...

When wheelchair basketball player Terry Bywater – a seven-time Paralympian – arrives on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées for the opening ceremony alongside Lucy Shuker (herself a five-time ...

The team with the most points by the time the clock expires wins. As the name suggests, wheelchair basketball is an adaptation of the able-bodied version. The International Wheelchair Basketball ...