Basketball in North America Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
team sport played on a court with baskets on either end
About Basketball in North America
The game was invented in December 1891 by the Canadian-American James Naismith, who was a college professor inSpringfield, Massachusetts. He wanted to come up with a team sport that could be played indoors during the winter when the weather didn't allow for popular outdoor sports like rugby, football, soccer or baseball. He used soccer balls for the game; proper basketballs were invented several decades later. Naismith also intended the game to limit contact between players, fixing the goal at a height then thought to be hard to reach even by jumping as he observed a lot of physical contact going in the contest close to the goal in other sports. There are conflicting interpretations whether this was due to the high injury risk associated with various codes of football or ice hockey at the
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