Dr. James Naismith: A Very Brief History Of Basketball

The game of basketball was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts. How it happened is that Naismith was asked by his boss to invent a new game. He came up with a new game that incorporated the rules of soccer but where players were allowed to use their hands. The first day that Naismith taught his students the game, there were 18 students in his class in the YMCA in Springfield. They played with a soccer ball and peach baskets with a small hole in the bottom. If someone scored a basket, they had to poke a stick up through the hole in the bottom of the basket to get the ball out. (Wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_basketball) Everyone liked the game so much that…. One student suggested that they call the game …., but

In 1946 the BAA, Basketball Association of America was formed. Tony Hinkle a coaching, and player of many sports invented the orange basketball. He felt that the brown color of the basketball was hard to see and hard for spectators to follow. The Basketball Hall of Fame was formed in Springfield, Mass. in 1959.Dr. James Naismith was a 30-year-old instructor at the local YMCA training school and in 1891 was tasked with coming up with an activity to be played indoors during winter and given 14 days to do so Naismith went through indoor versions of soccer lacrosse and football and they all failed with the irony being all three of those sports would eventually have indoor versions primarily because each try caused damage particularly to windows Naismith set out to create a game with less violence one that was less a contest of strength and more a contest of skill late at night on the final before the final day of the two weeks he was given he created a set of 13 rules for basketball he established many things still in use today including the concept of traveling goaltending fouls and even the rule that a ball must be thrown inbound within five seconds he set up peach baskets attached to both ends of a gymnasium balcony and used a soccer ball using an association football was even part of his original rules the name basketball came from a student who first learned the game LeBron James became an immediate star after