History+Of+Basketball

 =History of Basketball =

 The game was first discovered by Dr. James Naismith who was a Canadian gym teacher for the YMCA which is also known as the International Young Men`s Christian Association Training School. The game was discovered on a rainy day where Naismith was teaching one of his classes. He was trying to keep his class in shape and decided to nail a peach basket to a 10ft foot pole. The bottom of the peach basket was not cut off so a ball was able to be thrown into the peach basket which translated into 1 point. The only downside to this was that after each success toss into the basket a point was scored and the ball had to be manually taken out of the basket. Naismith later decided to create a hole at the bottom of the basket which would alleviate the problem of having to take out the ball after every point was scored.

The game further evolved and the peach baskets were replaced in 1906 with metal hoops and a backboard was also added behind the metal hoop. At this time a soccer ball was still used to play the game but on June 15ht 1929 the basketball was created. Furthermore, the first official game of basketball was played on January 20th 1892. The game was played at a YMCA gymnasium and the final score was 1 -0. The court which was played on was approximately half the size of the courts played on today at about 25ft.

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