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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 original rules of basketball written by James Naismith in 1891, considered to be basketball's founding document, was auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, in December 2010. Josh Swade , a University of Kansas alumnus and basketball enthusiast, went on a crusade in 2010 to persuade moneyed alumni to consider bidding on and hopefully winning the ...
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 ...
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a men's professional basketball major league from 1967 to 1976. The ABA merged into the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1976, resulting in four ABA teams joining the NBA and the introduction of the NBA 3-point shot in 1979.
The final score of the first game was 1–0 with William Chase scoring the first basket in the history of the sport. [5] In 1937, a re-enactment of the contest was played at Madison Square Garden in New York City using Naismith's 13 original rules, a soccer ball and peach baskets. The six surviving members of the first team were interviewed by ...
Obsessed with basketball at a young age, Bryant didn’t have much interest in school while living in Reggio Emilia. Bryant's youth basketball team poses for a picture in the early 1990s in Reggio ...
The Original Celtics were a barnstorming professional American basketball team. At various times in their existence, the team played in the American Basketball League , the Eastern Basketball League and the Metropolitan Basketball League.
The longtime broadcaster, whom many consider the voice of college basketball, originally intended to return on Jan. 25, when Duke played Wake Forest.However, those plans changed due to "new health ...