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The History of Basketball (How It Started and Its Evolution)
From peach baskets to sleek modern-day courts
Basketball is one of the most popular and widespread basketball games played around the world. The sport is covered by different media houses with a fanatic base of fans and is considered as a national pride of NBA all over.
The sport of basketball originated in the United States, created by James Naismith in 1891.
The official regulations were published on December 21, 1891. Since then, it has been one of the most popular and widespread basketball games in the world today. It remains to be a national pride of Pennsylvania because it was molded by Pennsylvanians.
How It Started (Basketball Was Born)
Naismith was an American physical education teacher who wanted to devise a fun, healthy competition for his students at Springfield College.
He created the game he called “Basket Ball” with peach baskets secured to each end of the gym class.
The ball was tossed up between players and played with two teams who could only score by throwing the ball through one of their opponent’s peach baskets. There was no dribbling, and the ball could only be moved by throwing the ball to another teammate.
