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Basketball
A Brief History:
Basketball, extremely
popular around the world, is a court game played by two teams of five
players each.
The object is to put
a ball through a hoop, or basket, and thus score more points than the
opposing team.
Although basketball
can be played outdoors, it was invented to serve as an exciting indoor
exercise for the winter months in a northern climate.
James Naismith, an
instructor in physical education at the International Young Men's Christian
Association (YMCA) Training School in Springfield, Mass., devised basketball
in December 1891.
Naismith hung up two
peach baskets, one at either end of the gymnasium, as goals. His YMCA
athletes played the first game with a soccer ball, passing it back and
forth until one team was able to throw it into its assigned basket. That
first game was governed by 13 axioms formulated by Naismith.
The rules of basketball,
based on those axioms. All 13 axioms are still incorporated in today's
rule books.
With the arrival of
two NBA franchises in Toronto and Vancouver, Canadian input will return.
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