Basketball is the most popular indoor sport in the world. It is also one of the few sports whose year of birth and originator can be traced back to 100% correctly, a man by the name of Dr. James A. Naismith in the year of 1891. Even though the game was started and grew in the United States, it is now played and watched in more than 150 countries.
When Dr. Naismith invented the game basketball, he was a physical education teacher at the International Training School of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Spring Field, Massachusetts. It was winter, and his students needed a fast-paced game that could be played indoors. After a lot of thinking he finally decided of a game where players would be throwing a ball into baskets. So he attached a couple of old wooden peach baskets to the end of each gym balcony and brought up some basic rules.
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Most recent All-Star logoEven though the game was fun to play, there were some problems that they had to solve, for example: when the players would throw the ball into the basket. They would have to get a ladder to climb up just to bring it back down. So they decided to cut holes in the bottom of the basket for the balls to fall out, which also helped them play faster. Peach baskets were used until 1906 when they were finally replaced with metal hoops and backboards.
The game of basketball consists of two teams, with five players each. On each end of the basketball court is a round metal rim/hoop placed ten feet above the floor. The object of the game is to score points by shooting a large ball through the basket. Also while preventing the other team from scoring points. The team with...