Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff assumed the risk of the injury which he sustained upon voluntarily participating in a basketball game at the defendant's facility ( see, Marescot v St. Augustine's R. C School, 226 AD2d 507; Reilly v Long Is. Jr. Soccer League, 216 AD2d 281; Greenberg v North Shore Cent. School Dist. No. 1., 209 AD2d 669; cf., Brown v City of Peekskill, 212 AD2d 658; Weithofer v Unique Racquetball Health Clubs, 211 AD2d 783; Pascucci v Town of Oyster Bay, 186 AD2d 725, 726; see also, Benitez v New York City Bd. of Educ., 73 NY2d 650; Turcotte v Fell, 68 NY2d 432, 439; Maddox v City of New York, 66 NY2d 270, 277-278).