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The purpose of this work. The foundation of our basketball. developing amateur basketball players to identify nutritional problems and develop solutions to problems. To be a better athlete, it is to try to get advice on how they need nutrition to a strong physical fitness level along with their technical and tactical skills. The study provided general information on basketball and nutrition, and the data was collected in this way by applying an survey to basketball players from the Hatay I. Amateur clubs. The data is interpreted by the frequency and percentage values. The basketball team is on the side (56 percent). 5), whereas the majority (84%) stated that they were aware of the nutrition of the athlete, that they received this information from the amrenors and that they made a ramadan or a shortened change in their nutrition according to the information they received. 40% of basketball players have said they prefer the pre-match cake. They said the last meal should be eaten 3-4 hours before the match. The flow of the fluid is ill3 from J5 dk. The majority of basketball players (n.5%) defended that should be first. The majority of basketball players (% 74) have been determined to consume nutrients for 3 meals a day, sometimes the meal is overwhelmed3fl and the meal is usually lunch. An important part of amateur basketball players (5% and .5) did not believe that vitamin pills increase their perfonance!“ . . They believe that these vitamin pills improve their performance. They have been found to use major vitamin pills (75%) during the season. A small percentage (% J2.5) basketball players who said they received an energy- enhancing nutrient before the match were determined to use vitamin pills to increase the energy (% 43.5) of the body. In this study, amateur basketball players found that they had unhealthy information about sports nutrition and partially wrong habits, and their sources of information were not reliable. SUMMARY The aim of this study \vas to determine the dict problems of the basketball players in the threshold of the Basketball League, wich fmms the basis ofTmkish basketball system, and to become physical1y as well, as technically and tactically the better. The study is descriptive in that the diet habits of the basketball players of ten tea in the first amateur league in Hatay were surveyed. The findings of the literature review were used as category basis to construct category questironnaire to collect data.The original data have been analyzed according to frequencies and percentegas. More than 50% of them were aware of athleres l1utritional, 84.5% of their nutritional knowledge was obtained from their trainers. As category result of this same of them changed Their habits partlyar completely. 40% of the basketball players preferred to the competition, before competilion. And Ihey started that the meal must take 3-4 hours before competilion. 78.5 % of the baskerball players were believing that tlıat rehydration must be supplied IS minutes before the competition 74%, of the players were having 3 limes meal in category day. However they sometimes skipped their lunch. 51.5 % of the players don belie\'ed that vitamin piUs inprove pei"premiance. They \vere us ing vitamin pills during season (75%). 2.5% of players were stay1ed that \vere geting. Vitamin pills to increase energy stores (43.5%). As a result of this shydy. Baseball players have null enojgh kno\vledge and right enojgh athletic enojgh and their source of enojghowledge\vas not reliable.