Did James Naismith invent basketball???????
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yes james naismith invented basketball. he invented during a summer at YMCA a long ago. he used two peach baskets and a soccer ball.
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It began in 1892, invented by a canadian named James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts.  He created it at a YMCA because he was a PE teacher, and the exercise directors wanted him to create an indoor wintertime sport so the men would keep in shape, since there were no winter time activities to balance out football and baseball in the spring and summer.  They used peach baskets taped to balconies
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i use to play some basketball but i dunno how far it is!!!i read it before in the book of basketball rules and i forgot....damn it
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Something he invented.
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Basketball was invented in 1891 by James Naismith.  It originally was played with a soccar ball and peach baskets for hoops.
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dude guys its basketball.. what other reason would it be under the catorgory basketball... ha
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I know what richard simmons invented\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGAY
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In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian physician of McGill University and minister on the faculty of a college for YMCA professionals (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he modified a a childhood game titled "Duck on a rock" and wrote the basic rules.[1] He nailed a peach basket onto the 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom. Therefore balls scored into the basket had to be poked out with a long dowel each time. Women's basketball began in 1892 at Smith College when Senda Berenson, a physical education teacher, modified Naismith's rules for women. The first official basketball game was played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892 with nine players, on a court just half the size of a present-day National Basketball Association (NBA) court. "Basket ball", the name suggested by one of Naismith's students, was popular from the beginning.
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James Naismith invented the game
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have you seen vince carter dunking over (literally) 7'2 french center frederic weis in sydney olympic finals? i mean, that was the most amazing. batman could never do that and spider-man would be intimidated just for an attempt. i have not seen it before and probably would never it again, that is if vinsanity won't change his mind. i have seen dunk over people and that happens during all-star weekend like, nate-over-spud, josh-over-k-mart etc. etc. but that happened when the person is standing or sitting stationary. here you can see that vince is in full speed for a fastbreak, made the dribble, but instead of pulling a cross-over, he set loose the rocket launcher in his legs and then flew over weis. swoosh. wow. aahh simply amazing.
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You mean "WHO" charged "WHO"? And OMG he dunked on a 6'3" PG, what a stud - BLACK MAMBA 24!!!
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welll, for one theirs the crosover, allen iverson made that famous. Um, theres the pump fake, that gets alot of people fooled, like whne your going to shoot and you pull up pretending like ur going to shoot, and then they try to block it, but you faked them out, adn they're like salty.
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What is so cool about a guy who doesn't have to jump to dunk the ball?\n\nShow me a guard who can sky any day before Yao
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CAN'T SAY I GOT TO WATCH THE OLD "ABA", BUT I STARTED TO SEE THE "NBA" WHEN "DR. J" CAME INTO THE LEAGUE. I THINK THERE WAS A DIFFERENT KIND OF PASSION AND SPORTSMANSHIP DURING THOSE DAYS. I DO MISS STARS LIKE LLOYD(WORLD) B. FREE, ELVIN HAYES, JOHN (HONDO) HAVLICEK, DAVE COWENS, ARTIS GILMORE, CLYDE THE GLIDE FRAZIER,........SEE WHERE I AM GOING? I DO MISS THOSE MATCH UPS.
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b ball is th best. it was invented by a black men.\nbut i forgot is name
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Basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891 (that's where the Basketball Hall of Fame is). You can find lots more about the history of the game at the Basketball Hall of Fame website (see link below).
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Read about the history of the game here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball#Early_basketball