History Of Basketball

1. James Naismith invented basketball.
2. Springfield, Massachusetts.
3. December 1891
4. The invention of basketball was inspired by a children’s game James knew called duck-on-a-rock.
5. James Naismith invented basketball because they needed a sport to play indoors in the winter since it was cold.
6. The circumstances in the beginning was that he didn’t know how to build the game so they could play, and had trouble finding the things necessary.
7. Basketball was very different than today, but it became very popular very fast and everyone loved it.
8. There wasn’t specific shots that you could make, just simply throwing it in the basket would score you a point.
9. Basketball is different today than when it first started in the fact that the rules were a little different, and today there are certain shots you can make that earn you more points, and they used different equipment than today.