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James Naismith invented basketball in . Naismith was a , but he lived in the United States. He taught sports at Springfield Training School in the state of Massachusetts. He found there were no interesting games to play in the winter months,
so he thought of a game.
Naismith's students played the game of basketball for the first time in the gym in 1891. There were nine men on each team.
They used a ball. They put peach on the gym wall. The goal or purpose of the game was to throw the ball in the basket. That is why he called the game basketball. A man with a went to the basket. He climbed the ladder and took the ball out of the basket.
Luckily, only one man got the ball into the basket in the first game.
Basketball is a very fast game. Players run up and down the basketball court or gym floor the whole game. One team moves the
hall to the hasket. At the same time, players from the other team try to get the ball. When a player gets the ball in the basket, the team points. The team with the most points at the end wins the game.
Most players are tall. Many of them are over 7 feet tall and weigh more than 200 pounds. One of basketball's great players was . He played from 1912 to 1926 and is in the Basketball Hall of Fame. He was only 5 feet 4 inches tall and 118 pounds!
Today, basketball is an sport. In the United States, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has some of the best players in
the world. Basketball is aso an Olympic sport today. In the Olympics, the best teams from many countries play to show they are the best.