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  2. History of basketball - Wikipedia

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    Basketball began with its invention in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts, by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith as a less injury-prone sport than football. Naismith was a 31-year-old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters. [ 1 ]

  3. American Basketball League (1925–1955) - Wikipedia

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    The ABL played three more seasons and then, with only five teams playing at the end of 1930–31, folded during the Great Depression. [1] After more than two years, the league was reorganized in 1933, but as an East Coast league, with teams in Pennsylvania and New York City metro area. [1] The league did take some measures to help modernize the ...

  4. Abe Saperstein - Wikipedia

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    Saperstein revolutionized the game of basketball and took the Globetrotters from an unknown team touring small farm towns in the Midwestern United States during the height of the Great Depression to a powerhouse that went on to beat the best team in the all-white National Basketball Association. [3]

  5. Category:1920s in basketball - Wikipedia

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    1920 in basketball (3 C, 1 P) 1921 in basketball (3 C) 1922 in basketball (3 C) 1923 in basketball (3 C) 1924 in basketball (3 C) 1925 in basketball (3 C, 1 P)

  6. Original Celtics - Wikipedia

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    The team's roots lay in the New York Celtics team that disbanded during World War I. In 1918, James Furey assembled his own team around a nucleus of those truly "original" Celtics, adding other players mostly from the West Side of New York City, and defiantly called his new squad the Original Celtics.

  7. How March Madness started: History of the NCAA basketball ...

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    Before this year's tournament gets started, find out how one of the greatest college sporting events got its start. History of the NCAA Tournament The first college basketball tournament was ...

  8. Category:1920 in basketball - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1920 in basketball" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Franklin Wonder Five

  9. 2020s vs. 1920s: Will History Repeat? - AOL

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    During the 1920s, while fragmented electricity grids were just maturing in towns and cities (the national grid not coming on until 1933), petroleum and to a lesser extent natural gas was fast ...