History of Basketball

    Basketball started when a man named James Naismith from Canada came south to train kids in the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) training school in Springfield, Massachusetts. He wanted to follow his interests in physical education so he expanded on an assignment to create game that could be played in YMCA gyms during the winter. One of the first games involved 9 players on each side, trying to toss the soccer ball into a peach basket nailed to the balconies at the end up of the gym. Whenever they would make a basket a ladder was brought to retrieve the ball and the game was paused.

    This new sport first spread across the YMCA but the first public match that was made in 1892, made the new sport spread quickly across the globe. Basketball’s first professional league was founded in 1898, which 7 years before that the Nets had replaced the peach basket.

   Basketball is not that different has before except without the peach baskets, now its hoops.