in what country basketball was discoverd?
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Dr.James Naismith (born in Ontario Canada) invented the game of "basket ball".\n\nIt started with throwing balls into peach baskets. He was working in New England at the time (USA). \n\nHe was asked to come up with a game that would distract the students from the cold. He never made a fortune for his invention.\n\n\n\nCheck it out...
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Basketball. i could play it all day long.
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Canadian Dr. James Naismith created the game of basketball from 13 original rules and while those rules have been modified over time, the essential principles remain constant.\n\nCheck web sight:\nhttp://www.nba.com/history/thegame_index.html
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History\n[edit]\nEarly basketball\nBasketball is unique in that it was invented by one person, rather than evolving from a different sport. In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born physician of McGill University and minister on the faculty of a college for YMCA professionals (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, sought a vigorous indoor game to keep young men occupied during the long New England winters. Legend has it that, after rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto the 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom. Therefore balls scored into the basket had to be poked out with a long dowel each time. Women's basketball began in 1892 at Smith College when Senda Berenson, a physical education teacher, modified Naismith's rules for women. The first official basketball game was played in the YMCA gymnasium on January 20, 1892 with nine players, on a court just half the size of a present-day NBA court. "Basket ball", the name suggested by one of Naismith's students, was popular from the beginning.\n\nBasketball's early adherents were dispatched to YMCAs throughout the United States, and it quickly spread through the country. By 1896, it was well established at several women's colleges. While the YMCA was responsible for initially developing and spreading the game, within a decade it discouraged the new sport, as rough play and rowdy crowds began to detract from the YMCA's primary mission. However, other amateur sports clubs, colleges, and professional clubs quickly filled the void. In the years before World War I, the Amateur Athletic Union and the Intercollegiate Athletic Association (forerunner of the NCAA) vied for control over the rules for the game.\n\nBasketball was originally played with a soccer ball. The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown, and it was only in the late 1950s that Tony Hinkle, searching for a ball that would be more visible to players and spectators alike, introduced the orange ball that is now in common use.\n\nDribbling, the bouncing of the ball up and down while moving, was not part of the original game except for the "bounce pass" to teammates. Passing the ball was the primary means of ball movement. Dribbling was eventually introduced but limited by the asymmetric shape of early balls. Dribbling only became a major part of the game around the 1950s as manufacturing improved the ball shape.\n\nBasketball, netball, volleyball, and lacrosse are the only ball games which have been identified as being invented by North Americans.[citation needed] Other ball games, such as baseball and football, have British Commonwealth or European connections.\n\n\nCollege basketball and early leagues\n \nKent Benson of Indiana University Bloomington takes a hook shot.Naismith and Berenson were instrumental in establishing college basketball. Naismith coached at University of Kansas for six years before handing the reins to renowned coach Phog Allen. Naismith's disciple Amos Alonzo Stagg brought basketball to the University of Chicago, while Adolph Rupp, a student of Naismith's at Kansas, enjoyed great success as coach at the University of Kentucky. In 1892, University of California and Miss Head's School, played the first women's inter-institutional game. Berenson's freshmen played the sophomore class in the first women's collegiate basketball game at Smith College, March 21, 1893. The same year, Mount Holyoke and Sophie Newcomb College (coached by Clara Gregory Baer) women began playing basketball. By 1895, the game had spread to colleges across the country, including Wellesley, Vassar and Bryn Mawr. The first intercollegiate women's game was on April 4, 1896. Stanford women played Berkeley, 9-on-9, ending in a 2-1 Stanford
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NBA?\n\nThe Detriot Pistons.
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Well Singapore has always been a soccer crazed country, basketball was always ranked behind it in terms of participation, fan-following and tv-viewership. It's mainly due to our culture, after all Basketball is still deemed in some quarters as the game the americans invented , unlike soccer which is played worldwide.
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Basketball is the best sport ever!!!
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basketball game played generally indoors by two opposing teams of five players each. Basketball was conceived in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a physical education instructor at the YMCA college in Springfield, Mass., as a way to condition outdoor athletes during the winter months. His original list of 13 rules has undergone a century of revision, leading to faster pacing and greater athleticism.\n\nThere more information in the link below.
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Dr. James Naismith, Inventor of Basketball\nKU Basketball Program Founder\n \nDr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing another rock at it. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. \n\nAfter serving as McGill's Athletic Director, James Naismith moved on to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA in 1891, where the sport of basketball was born. In Springfield, Naismith was faced with the problem of finding a sport that was suitable for play inside during the Massachusetts winter for the students at the School for Christian Workers. Naismith wanted to create a game of skill for the students instead of one that relied solely on strength. He needed a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space. The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals.\n\nJames Naismith devised a set of thirteen rules of basketball: \n\nThe ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands. \nThe ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never with the fist. \nA player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it, allowance to be made for a man running at good speed. \nThe ball must be held in or between the hands. The arms or body must not be used for holding it. \nNo shouldering, holding, pushing, striking or tripping in any way of an opponent. The first infringement of this rule by any person shall count as a foul; the second shall disqualify him until the next goal is made or, if there was evident intent to injure the person, for the whole of the game. No substitution shall be allowed. \nA foul is striking at the ball with the fist, violations of Rules 3 and 4 and such as described in Rule 5. \nIf either side make three consecutive fouls it shall count as a goal for the opponents (consecutive means without the opponents in the meantime making a foul). \nGoal shall be made when the ball is thrown or batted from the ground into the basket and stays there, providing those defending the goal do not touch or disturb the goal. If the ball rests on the edge and the opponents move the basket, it shall count as a goal. \nWhen the ball goes out of bounds, it shall be thrown into the field and played by the first person touching it. In case of dispute the umpire shall throw it straight into the field. The thrower-in is allowed five seconds. If he holds it longer, it shall go to the opponent. If any side persists in delaying the game, the umpire shall call a foul on them. \nThe umpire shall be judge of the men and shall note the fouls and notify the referee when three consecutive fouls have been made. He shall have the power to disqualify men according to Rule 5. \nThe referee shall be the judge of the ball and decide when it is in play in bounds, to which side it belongs, and shall keep the time. He shall decide when a goal has been made and keep account of the goals with any other duties that are usually performed by a referee. \nThe time shall be two 15-minute halves with five minutes' rest between. \nThe side making the most goals in that time shall be declared the winners. \nIn addition to the creation of the basketball, James Naismith graduated as a medical doctor, primarily interested in sports physiology and what we would today call sports science and as Presbyterian minister, with a keen interest in philosophy and clean living. Naismith watched his sport, basketball, introduced in many nations by the YMCA movement as early as 1893. Basketball was introduced at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Today basketball h
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not many like soccer\n\nin the USA a LOT in the world mmmm not many.\nif i ask 100 people in Peru or Venezuela only 5 or 10 will actually have played basketball
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Read about the history of the game here:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball#Early_basketball
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National Basketball Association \nA game played between two teams of five players each, the object being to throw a ball through an elevated basket on the opponent's side of a rectangular court. Players may move the ball by dribbling or passing with the hands.
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Way to go..sounds like another Balkan boy made it to the NBA top 10...selfish remark: feels great to be part of the nation of the "tall people"
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yup. go and check out the nba!
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THIS IS A BEST ANSWER\n\n\nJames Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith  was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian Cllege in Montreal. He was the physical education teacher at McGill University (1887 to 1890) and at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (1890 to 1895). At Springfield College (which was then the Y.M.C.A. training school), James Naismith, under the direction of American phys-ed specialist Luther Halsey Gulick, invented the indoor sport of basketball.
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i like basket ball .i use to play it during my  school time
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Basket ball was invented at Springfield, Mass. (home of the hall of fame) by a school teacher who wanted to add recreation by allowing children to throw a ball through a basket held at an elevation well above the children.  I understand it was something like a peach basket with the bottom removed.\n\nIn high school, I played on an intramural basketball team called the "Slowfoot Five" and we had an undefeated season (even though I did not score a single point - but I was tall).  I did save one game by preventing forfeiture when our star player had to be late (that was my job!).  Our shortest player Russy (shortest in our school) saved one game in the last few seconds when he lobbed a ball in a high arc the full lenght of the half-court we played and scored the winning basket that landed like a coin and took its time to fall through.  But he beat the Ref.'s whistle and we won by one point.  Thus the game was evolved to provide lots of excitement.  Good luck.