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Naismith invented the game of basketball and wrote the original 13 rules of this sport; [37] for comparison, the NBA rule book today features 66 pages. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, is named in his honor, and he was an inaugural inductee in 1959. [ 37 ]
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] In 1910 Howard University’s first varsity basketball team began. In 1922 the Commonwealth Five, the first all-black professional team was founded. The New York Renaissance was founded in 1923.
The First Team were the first players known to have played the sport of basketball, having been taught the game in 1891 by James Naismith, who is recognized as the inventor of the sport. [1]
January 20 – The first official basketball game is played in the YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts. [citation needed] [dubious – discuss] March 11 – First basketball game played in public, between students and faculty at the Springfield YMCA. [1] The final score was 5–1 in favor of the students, with the only goal for the ...
South Bend Clay's 1993-94 boys basketball state title season ended with one of the greatest championship game in IHSAA history. Now, players and coach Tom DeBaets watch the game 30 years later
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 ...
PARIS — If casual American basketball fans didn’t already know this, then the world made it loud and clear in Paris: The U.S. has a ways to go before it becomes a 3x3 powerhouse.
Typewritten first draft of the rules of basketball by Naismith. On 15 January 1892, James Naismith published his rules for the game of "Basket Ball" that he invented: [1] The original game played under these rules was quite different from the one played today as there was no dribbling, dunking, three-pointers, or shot clock, and goal tending was legal.