What I found out about basketball, I found out that Dr. Naismith invented it. In 1891, he was a phsyaid teacher at the YMCA College in Springfield. He had games to play in the summer and spring but didn’t have anything to play inside when it got cold. So he thought back awhile and remembers seeing a couple o rugby players trying to throw there ball up into an elevated box. So he tried to find a couple of boxes, he couldn’t find any and one have the janitors suggested him to use peach baskets. So he hung them up on the balcony that was 10ft. above the floor. Then he had to decide what to use as the ball, he wanted a large ball and decided to use a basketball. The first game took place in December 1981 in Dr. Naismith gym class. After the fir
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