Friday, February 6, 2015

History of Basketball 

1.Who invented basketball? James Naismith was a Canadian american sports coach and innovator

2. Where? Springfield, Massachusetts 

3. When? 1981

4. How? Basketball was consisted of peach baskets and a soccer style.He published 13 rules for a new game he divided the class of 18 into 2 teams of 9 players each and set about to teach them the basics of his game.

5.Why? James invented basketball because he was working at the YMCA training school

6.What were the circumstances at the beginning? The circumstances they had at the beginning was that the ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.Also the ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands.

7. What was it like at the the start? At the start of basket they had rules

8. What type of shots were done? They were done with two pointer or three pointer also dribbling

9. How is basketball different today then when it first started? Basketball is differently because dribbling was introduced into the game many different rules have entered as well,including the three second violation, palming the ball,and traveling. Many things changed from back than till now.



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