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  2. History of basketball - Wikipedia

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    Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022) online. APPLIN, ALBERT GAMMON, II."FROM MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY TO THE MARKET PLACE: THE HISTORY OF MEN'S AND BOY'S BASKETBALL IN THE UNITED STATES, 1891-1957" (PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst; ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 1982. 8210291).

  3. James Naismith - Wikipedia

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    After moving to the United States, he wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program in 1898. [4] Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , as well as the birth of the National Invitation ...

  4. History of sports in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Basketball invented by Dr. James Naismith in 1891 as a winter indoor activity, basketball quickly gained traction and began spreading to colleges and beyond. By the century's end, it was establishing itself in various colleges and setting the stage for future professional leagues.

  5. Basketball in the United States - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] In terms of revenue, the NBA is the third most profitable sports league in the United States and the world, after the National Football League (NFL) and Major League Baseball (MLB). [5] Basketball was invented in 1891 by Canadian physical education teacher James Naismith in Springfield, Massachusetts. [6]

  6. Hoosier hysteria - Wikipedia

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    Indiana's passion for basketball was observed and written about by basketball's inventor, James Naismith. In 1925, Naismith visited an Indiana basketball state finals game along with 15,000 screaming fans. He later wrote that while it was invented in Massachusetts, "basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the ...

  7. America invented basketball but still has a ways to go in ...

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    If casual American basketball fans didn’t already know this, then the world made it loud and clear in Paris: The United States has a ways to go before becoming a 3x3 powerhouse.

  8. Basketball - Wikipedia

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    Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...

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