Abstract:
Background: - Basketball is a complex sport requiring cyclic and acyclic movements with
and without the ball. During a basketball game, abrupt and intense direction changes and
high frequencies of starting and stopping occur massively. Objective: -To investigate
developmental challenges and prospects of basketball in the dawuro zone. Methods: -The
researcher applied a mixed research method with triangulation design and census sampling
technique and the sample size was 112. The researcher used primary data sources by using
two data collection instruments which are questionnaire and interview. The data was
analyzed by using both qualitative and quantitative methods, SPSS version 27 was used for
data entry and analysis. Standard multiple regression analyses were carried out. Result:-The
result of descriptive statistics reveals that, the overall basketball development has a mean
value of 2.2738 with a standard deviation of 0.81184. The result of the correlation analysis
showed that, there were strong positive correlations between the dependent variable
basketball development and independent variables media (r = 0.553), facility (r = 0.150),
Sport expert (r=0.594), Administrator & stakeholder (r=0.378) and community (r = 0 .292)
with (P < 0.005) level of significance. The multiple regression result of this study revealed
that all of the five independent variables have a positive p-value and all of them have a
significant impact on the dependent variable based on the 95% confidence intervals.
Conclusion: only 11.6 % of our respondents agree on the development of basketball
development in dawuro zones which is very low. According to this finding the challenges of
basketball development in the dawuro zone is lack of facility and equipment, shortage of
media coverage, absence of community participation, less attention of sport experts and
responsibility
of
sport
administrator
&stakeholders toward basketball sport.
Recommendation: -Therefore, to overcome these problems, the following recommendations
have been forwarded by the researcher: - the government, NGO and other sectors should
support basketball sport through; material support, financial support, give media coverage,
facilitating infrastructures, inviting Amateurs for the development of basketball in dawuro
zone, they work jointly for further expand and growth of basketball development in dawuro
zone.
