The Invention of Basketball | Hoop Press

This is the beginning of Hoop Press Article and every beginning needs a good introduction and with that we will tackle the history of basketball and how and when did it originated. Most of us doesn’t like to read and if you want to learn something about basketball just watch the video above.


Only one American sport has an own founding a clear creator and a beginning basketball
it started in December 1891 when the cold Massachusetts temperature drove guys inside. James Naismith saw her Restless Network they missed their usual outdoor sports and indoor baseball was never going to take off the director of the Springfield Young Men's Christian Association tapped Naismith to create a new indoor sport an athletic distraction they call it to help guys make it through the winter it had to be interesting easy to learn easy to play.


In the winter and playable by artificial light and it needed to be more strategic than forceful no broken bones Naismith studied rugby baseball lacrosse and soccer thinking about ways to adapt the best parts of each sport to a small gym they ended up with two peach baskets and a soccer ball he nailed the baskets ten feet up wrote 13 rules and launched his basketball league the first game nine on nine launched on this day December 21st 1891 it had two 15-minute halves and it ended with the score of 9 to 3 the game spread quickly dribbling was added.


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