Covering the history of early Basketball.
Basketball was invented in around 1891 by James Naismith. This new game was introduced by Naismith while he was an instructor at the Young Men’s Christian Association Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Naismith organized a recreational game that was suitable for playing indoor during the cold winters of Massachusetts. The first try at having Teams in basketball included nine players on each side and their goals were wooden peach baskets affixed to the walls. It was not until the mid 1897 that the game was standardized with five players on each team.
The first college games happened in New York City’s Madison Square Garden 1934.
The 1950s saw basketball starting to becom a major college sport.
The 1960′s saw the surge of basketball being played by on a professional level.
The first pro league the National Basketball League started in 1898 lasted 5 years.
The Original Celtics, organized about 1915 in New York City.
The Harlem Globetrotters founded in 1927.
1949 saw the merge of, the National Basketball League and the Basketball Association of America to create what we currently know as the NBA(National Basketball Association).
In 1959 a Basketball Hall of Fame was founded in Springfield, Massachusetts.
By the 1960s, pro teams from coast to coast played before crowds of many millions annually.
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