Although a lot of work has been done in the field of sports injuries at international level, very few studies have been done in the field by Indian researchers. Therefore, the proposed study has been designed to understand the injuries that occur in basketball. The researcher tries to understand the causes and preventions of injuries in basketball through the proposed study. The researcher selected 100 players who had participated in inter- college basketball championship. For the required study a questionnaire was developed with the help of a panel of experts of the field. The questionnaire was sent for a trial run in order to discover whether the meaning of the questions/statements clear to the subjects or not. Percentage method was used by the researcher in order to get the result from the raw data and it was later exhibited in form of pie charts and tables with the help of MS Excel. The findings of the study pertaining to different questions have been presented graphically in form of pie charts. the results showed that Collision is ranked 1^st (n=20, 29%), Lack of technique is ranked 2^nd (n=15, 21%), sports equipment is ranked 3^rd (n=8, 12%), ground/surface and overload share 4^th rank (n=7, 10%), too much eagerness to reach the top and other reasons share 5^th rank (n=5, 7%) and inadequate facility is ranked 6th (n=3, 4%). The study concluded that Majority of the basketball players prefer warm up exercise as a mean to prevent injuries from occurring, Very few basketball players prefer on/off court training or any other type of training to prevent injuries from occurring, Majority of the basketball players gets injured because of exogenous causes followed by endogenous causes, fatigue and any other causes, When we talk about exogenous cause of injuries majority of the basketball players get injured because of collision, When we talk about endogenous injuries majority of the basketball players get injured due to lack of technique, When ranking the causes of injuries to the basketball players collision is the top reason for causing injuries to the players and inadequate facility is ranked least for causing injuries to basketball players.