History of Basketball
HISTORY OF BASKETBALL
Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of Basketball. He was born in 1861 in
Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from his
school days in the area where he played a simple child's game called duck-on-a-rock outside of his schoolhouse. The game had a purpose to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by throwing another rock at it. Naismith then …
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…players. The soccer balls that were
originally used were replaced by regulation basketballs.
1891 - Dr. James Naismith invented the game of
basketball.
1892 - The first public basketball game is played.
1893 - The first women's basketball game is played
and the first backboards are introduced.
1894 - Basketballs replace soccer balls.
1898 - The first basketball professional league is
created.
1949 - The NBA is formed.
1954 - The 24 second shot clock is introduced.
1976 - The ABA and NBA merge.
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