Basketball was invented in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith. He was a Canadian physical education student and an instructor with the YMCA Training School (which is known as Springfield College today) in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the USA. He wanted his students to play a game which helped them remain fit. The New England winters were very cold and quite long. So the game had to be an indoor sport. So he began to search for different games, but rejected several options due to the fact that the games were either too rough or too badly suited for indoor play. Finally, he began to write down some basic rules and nailed two peach baskets onto an elevated track. The peach baskets had their bottoms, so every time the ball went into it, it had to be removed manually. Soon, a hole was drilled into the bottom of the basket to enable the ball to be pushed out using a stick.
However, this variation soon developed into the basketball baskets that we see today. Also, at that time the ball used for the game was a soccer ball. This game began to be called 'BasketBall'. The Spread Of The Game From the YMCA gym to a game played in the Olympics, Basketball has certainly come a long way. The game's popularity grew and it spread from the United States to Canada. Eventually, even a women's team was formed in 1892, at Smith College. Although the game spread to wherever the YMCA was located, several sports clubs, colleges and even professional clubs began to play the game. In the late 1950s, Tony Hinkle introduced the orange ball which is used today to play the game. With the introduction of this ball, players could introduce a variety of moves such as dribbling, into...