WhatisisBasketball?

What Basketball?

BASKETBALL is a team sport in which two

teams, most commonly of five players each,
opposing one another on a
rectangular court, compete with the primary
objective of shooting a basketball through
the defender's hoop.
 THE
INVENTION
OF
BASKETBALL
• Basketball was invented by Dr.
James Naismith in December 1891
in Springfield, Massachusetts.

• Dr. Naismith was a college professor

who wanted to create a game that his
physical education classes could play
inside during the long winters.
• The first games used peach
baskets nailed to the wall for firms.

• The first ball was soccer ball.

• The objective of the game was to throw
the basketball into the fruit baskets
nailed to the lower railing of the gym
balcony.

• He developed the original rules on

December 21 1891, the same day he
asked his class to play a match in the
Armory Street court: 9 versus 9
• "Naismith Game" – proposed game
name by one of his students.

• Every time a point was scored, the

game was halted so the janitor could
bring out a ladder and retrieve the ball.
• Women's basketball began in the fall of 1892
at Smith College. Senda Berenson, recently
hired as a young "physical culture" director
at Smith, taught basketball to her students,
hoping the activity would improve their
physical health

• The 13 original rules published in January 15

1892 in The Triangle, the school newspaper
of Springfield College.
• Year 1895 when basketball introduced to
high school

• November 7 1896 –First Professional Game

(Trenton vs. Brooklyn)

• 1898 when basketball spreads into

universities and Kansas University hire
Naismith to be their coach.

• In 1906, the peach baskets were

finally replaced by metal hoops with
backboards 
• Year 1907, Naismith quits coaching in Kansas
University.

• World basketball was growing, but it was on June

18, 1932 that a real international organization was
formed, to coordinate tournaments and teams: that
day, Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Italy, Latvia,
Portugal, Romania and Switzerland founded the
International Basketball Federation.

• In 1936, basketball became an official sport and

November 7, 1936 when it was introduced in
Olympics
• NBL (National Basketball League)
started with thirteen previously
independent teams in 1937. The
league began as the 
Midwest Basketball Conference in
1935, but changed its name in 1937
• In 1946 a group of executives in New York
City formed another new professional
basketball league, known as the Basketball
Association of America (BAA). This new
circuit was a direct competitor with the new
NBL, with teams in New York City; Boston,
Massachusetts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Chicago, Illinois; and Detroit, Michigan.
• August 3, 1949 – NBL join the BAA

• National Basketball Association (NBA),

professional basketball league formed in
the United States in 1949

•  The first balls made specifically for

basketball were brown, and it was only
in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle,
introduced the orange ball that is now
in common use.
Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer.

1. Who invented Basketball?

a. James Naismith c. Lebron James

b. Michael Jordan d. Charles Barkley

2. What were the first basketball hoops?

a. Sticks Basket c. Apple Basket

b. Peach Basket d. Paper Basket

3. What year did basketball invented?

a. 1891 c.1892
b. 1895 d.1893
4. When basketball first started how many players from
each team were on the court?

a.5 c.6
b.9 d.4

5. What year did basketball became an official Olympic

sport?

a. 1926 c.1999
b.1936 d.1776