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The first inter-city basketball game between two black teams was played in 1907 when the Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn traveled to Washington, DC to play the Crescent Athletic Club. [48] In 1908 Smart Set Athletic Club of Brooklyn, a member of the Olympian Athletic League, was named the first Colored Basketball World's Champion. [49]
Professional women's basketball exists in Australia in the form of the Women's National Basketball League. The league was founded in 1981 as a way for the best women's basketball teams in the various Australian States to compete against each other on a regular basis. Today the WNBL is the premier women's basketball league in Australia.
Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...
Basketball Hall of Fame: housed in a $47 million structure designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, it is a shrine to the world's second most popular sport, basketball. Located in the city where basketball was invented, the facility—built beside the Connecticut River—spans 80,000 square feet (7,400 m 2) features numerous restaurants and ...
Hoosier hysteria is the state of excitement surrounding basketball in Indiana or, more specifically, the Indiana high school basketball tournament. [1] [2] The most famous example occurred in 1954, when Milan (enrollment 161) defeated Muncie Central (enrollment over 1,600) to win the state title.
The Boston Celtics were founded on June 6, 1946, as one of the National Basketball Association's original teams, and are one of two to have remained in the city where they were founded. The team has won 18 NBA Finals , more than any other team, and the team's eight consecutive titles between 1959 and 1966 stand as a record amongst all four ...
By the mid-1930s men's and women's indoor basketball associations had been set up in the main cities and some smaller centres. From the start, both sexes were involved, the YMCA organising the men's leagues and the YWCA the women's. In 1935 the Auckland women's association had 14 teams. The first national indoor basketball tournament was held ...
The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a women's professional basketball league based in the United States. The league comprises 13 teams (15 in 2026). It is considered the premier professional women's basketball league in the world. [citation needed] The league's headquarters are located in New York City.