Pickleball
What is Pickleball? Learn all about the sport that Drake and Michael B Jordan are set to invest in teams.
Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport where two (singles) or four (doubles) players hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball with paddles over a 34-inch-high (0.86 m) net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits an infraction. Pickleball is played indoors and outdoors.
It was invented in 1965 as a children’s backyard game in the United States, on Bainbridge Island in Washington state. In 2022, pickleball was named the official state sport of Washington.
While it resembles tennis in some respects and ping-pong (table tennis) in others, pickleball has specific rules, paddles and court dimensions. The court is 44 feet long and 20 feet wide, and the paddle is larger than the one used in table tennis. The hard plastic ball used in pickleball produces less bounce than tennis balls.
On each side of the net is a 7-foot area (2.1 m) known as the non-volley zone (or the kitchen), where the ball must bounce before it is hit. The rules specify side-out scoring, where only the server can score a point.
The minimal amount of bounce, the non-volley zones, and the underhanded stroke with which all serves are made, give the game a dynamic pace. The growing popularity of the sport has encouraged many celebrities to invest in a team.
Drake and Michael B Jordan have recently become the latest celebrities to invest in a Pickleball team.
Superstars of the highest caliber such as LeBron James, Draymond Green, and Kevin Love are planning to invest in Major League Pickleball, the major American league of the game that is the most rapidly growing sport in the whole country.
Besides the likes of James, Green and Love, a star-studded group of former Super Bowl champion Drew Brees, former No. 4 tennis star James Blake and Ryan Serhant, founder and CEO of real estate brand Serhant are already included in the league’s ownership rank.
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