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Creation

James Naismith

In December 1891, James Naismith, a Canadian-American professor

of physical education and

instructor at the International Young

Men's Christian Association Training School (now Springfield College)

in Springfield,

Massachusetts,[5] was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day.[6] He 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 invented a new game in which

players would pass a ball to teammates and try to score points by tossing the

ball into a basket mounted on a wall. Naismith wrote the basic rules and

nailed a peach basket onto an elevated track.

Naismith initially set up the peach basket with its bottom intact, which meant

that the ball had to be retrieved manually after each "basket" or

point scored. This quickly proved tedious, so Naismith removed the bottom of

the basket to allow the balls to be poked out with a long dowel after

each score.

Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball.

These round balls from "association football"

were made, at the time, with a set of laces to close off the hole needed for

inserting the inflatable bladder after the other sewn-together segments of the

ball's cover had been flipped outside-in.[7][8] These laces could cause bounce passes and dribbling to be

unpredictable.[9] Eventually a lace-free ball construction method was

invented, and this change to the game was endorsed by Naismith (whereas

in American football,

the lace construction proved to be advantageous for gripping and remains to

this day). The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it

was only in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle,

searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators

alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in common use. Dribbling was not

part of the original game except for the "bounce pass" to teammates.

Passing the ball was the primary means of ball movement. Dribbling was

eventually introduced but limited by the asymmetric shape of early balls.[dubious – discuss] Dribbling was common by 1896, with a

rule against the double dribble by 1898.[10]

The peach baskets were used until 1906 when

they were finally replaced by metal hoops with backboards. A further change was

soon made, so the ball merely passed through. Whenever a person got the ball in

the basket, his team would gain a point. Whichever team got the most points won

the game.[11] The baskets were originally nailed to the mezzanine

balcony of the playing court, but this proved impractical when spectators in

the balcony began to interfere with shots. The backboard was introduced to

prevent this interference; it had the additional effect of allowing rebound

shots.[12] Naismith's handwritten diaries, discovered by his

granddaughter in early 2006, indicate that he was nervous about the new game he

had invented, which incorporated rules from a children's game called duck on a rock, as many had failed before it.[13]

Frank Mahan, one of the players from the

original first game, approached Naismith after the Christmas break, in early

1892, asking him what he intended to call his new game. Naismith replied that

he had not thought of it because he had been focused on just getting the game started.

Mahan suggested that it be called "Naismith ball", at which he

laughed, saying that a name like that would kill any game. Mahan then said,

"Why not call it basketball?" Naismith replied, "We have a

basket and a ball, and it seems to me that would be a good name for it."[14][15] The first official game was played in the YMCA gymnasium in Albany, New York, on January

20, 1892, with nine players. The game ended at 1–0; the shot was made from 25

feet (7.6 m), on a court just half the size of a present-day Streetball or National

Basketball Association (NBA) court.