The title will be blinking if you are using Netscape Navigator and will scroll if you are using Internet Explorer. Racing Swimming Other Back to main Click here to send feedback about this page . All messages will be read and responded to. Also, basketball players are among the highest paid professional sports players. Basketball is a really cool and fun sport.
Basketball can be a game of position and physical prowess or a game of passing and creation.
Basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith in the winter of 1891 at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts. Naismith, an instructor at the recreational center, was given the task of creating a new game that would keep football players in shape during the long, cold winter. Naismith needed to invent an indoor, non-physical game. After some time, Naismith came up with a game using two peach baskets placed ten feet in there air where players on either team trying to throw a soccer ball into the basket. There was no backboard, no dribbling, and no shot-clock.