Basketball history

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James Naismith

Learn more about James Naismith, the Canadian-born physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891.

NBA History

The most successful women's basketball team in US history won 131 games over the space of five years, but today the Flying Queens are forgotten. A new documentary aims to change that.

Best players by number

Sports have a way of bringing people together in incredible ways. We all stay glued to the screens, in anticipation of what’s to come. We gather with friends and family to enjoy the entertainment that can only be generated by watching a live event, with no definitive outcome in sight. These are the moments we […]

Scottie Pippen

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Basketball. 1935

Originated It was the winter of 1891-1892. Inside a gymnasium at Springfield College (then known as the International YMCA Training School), positioned in Springfield, Mass., turned into a collection of stressed university college students. The young guys had to be there; they had been required to take part in indoor activities to burn off the strength that were constructing up in view that their soccer season ended. The gym elegance presented them sports consisting of marching…

Basketball is a real high-flying act any more, and one can accuse me of primacy bias, but forty years later this is still one of the best dunks I’ve ever witnessed in-person. Vic Alexander—not a ball-handler, but nevertheless a tough, really good player—managed to split the gap between two defenders in transition off a turnover and posterize this Eastern Michigan Huron player who has since been relegated to the annals of ancient history. Also an incredible piece of sports photography!

and basketball was your game.

A Brief History of the Basketball