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Basketball History: Timeline & How it started

March 16, 2024

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Dive into Basketball History, a captivating journey that uncovers the origins and growth of a truly iconic sport.

Discover its inventor, key moments, and what makes basketball popular today!

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Basketball History Summary

1960s-1970s, 2000s-present, who invented basketball, how did basketball become so popular, where did basketball originate.

• ⏳ Origins and Evolution: Basketball was invented in the United States by Dr. James Naismith in 1891. Initially designed as an indoor winter activity, the game’s simple rules and thrilling action rapidly gained popularity, leading to widespread adoption in schools and clubs.
• 🚀 Rise to Prominence: The formation of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1949 and the integration of top-tier talent took the sport to new heights. Pivotal moments, legendary teams, and unforgettable rivalries propelled basketball into the global spotlight.
• 🥇   Noteworthy Growth and Adaptation: Over the years, basketball experienced international expansion, technological advancements, and adaptability to various challenges. The NBA’s commitment to player development, fan engagement, and social impact solidified its position as a major force in global sports.

Basketball History Timeline

Dr. James Naismith, a physical education instructor in Springfield, Massachusetts, sought an indoor activity for his students during the winter season. In December 1891, he invented basketball by hanging two peach baskets at opposite ends of a gymnasium and drafting 13 simple rules. The first game was played by his students, forming the basis for modern basketball.

Naismith’s new sport spread quickly throughout American schools, churches, and YMCA recreational centers, fostering its enduring popularity.

Basketball debuted as an Olympic sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Eighteen countries participated in the event, with the United States securing the gold medal after defeating Canada. James Naismith was present at the Olympics, witnessing the global recognition and growth of his invention.

During the same year, the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) was established, becoming the governing body for the sport worldwide.

The Basketball Association of America (BAA) was founded in June 1946, with 11 teams from major U.S. cities participating. The league’s first game took place on November 1, 1946, featuring the New York Knicks against the Toronto Huskies.

In August 1949, the BAA and the National Basketball League (NBL) merged, forming the National Basketball Association (NBA), leading to the consolidation and professionalization of the sport.

In the 1950s, the NBA integrated its teams, breaking racial barriers. African American players like Chuck Cooper, Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton, and Earl Lloyd made history, paving the way for future generations of diverse talent.

During this era, dominant players like George Mikan and Bill Russell rose to prominence, and the Boston Celtics emerged as a powerhouse, winning multiple championships and constructing a lasting sports dynasty.

The 1960s and 1970s witnessed the rise of legendary players like Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Julius “Dr. J” Erving. These athletes captivated fans with their skill, charisma, and high-scoring games.

In 1976, the NBA merged with the American Basketball Association (ABA), acquiring four new teams and expanding its reach. This period also saw the introduction of the three-point line, a game-changing development that diversified offensive strategies.

The 1980s brought iconic players like Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan to the forefront. The decade was marked by intense rivalries, particularly between the Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers, which fueled fan interest and excitement.

This era also saw the widespread adoption of cable television, which contributed to the NBA’s booming popularity and global reach.

The 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, featured the United States’ “Dream Team,” comprising NBA stars like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird. The team dominated the competition, winning all eight games and capturing the gold medal.

The “Dream Team” symbolized basketball’s global influence and inspired future generations of international players to pursue careers in the NBA.

The 21st century has seen the continued growth and globalization of the NBA, with numerous international players like Yao Ming, Dirk Nowitzki, and Giannis Antetokounmpo making significant impacts. Additionally, the Women’s National Basketball Association ( WNBA ) has provided opportunities for female athletes to showcase their talents and passion for the game.

Modern basketball is characterized by advanced analytics, unprecedented player versatility, and a focus on long-range shooting. The NBA continues to evolve, promoting social issues and engaging fans via digital platforms, securing its status as a major player in global sports.

Discover the legends who shaped the game in our article on the best basketball players of all time .

Basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian physical educator, in December 1891 to keep his students active during the cold winter.

Basketball’s popularity soared globally because of star players’ influence, televised games, and the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) worldwide marketing efforts.

Basketball originated in Springfield, Massachusetts, in the United States, where Dr. James Naismith first developed and introduced the game.

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Here's the history of basketball—from peach baskets in Springfield to global phenomenon

The first game used baskets as hoops and turned into a brawl. Soon after, basketball evolved into a pillar of American sports.

The nets used by athletes to dunk the ball and score points in the beloved game of basketball evolved from peaches, or rather the baskets used to collect peaches.

That’s what a young athletic director ultimately used on a cold day back in 1891 for a new game he created to keep his students engaged.  

James Naismith was a 31-year old graduate student teaching physical education at the   International YMCA Training School , now known as Springfield College, in Springfield, Massachusetts when students were forced to stay indoors for days due to a New England storm.   The usual winter athletic activities were marching, calisthenics, and apparatus work but they weren’t nearly as thrilling as football or lacrosse which were played during the warmer seasons.  

Naismith wanted to create a game that would be simple to understand but complex enough to be interesting. The game had to be playable indoors, and it had to accommodate several players at once. The game also needed to provide plenty of exercise for the students, yet without the physicality of football, soccer, or rugby since those would threaten more severe injuries if played in a confined space. ( See 100 years of football in pictures. )

Naismith approached the school janitor, hoping he could find two square boxes to use for goals. When the janitor came back from his search, he had two peach baskets instead. Naismith nailed the peach baskets to the lower rail of the gymnasium balcony, one on each side. The height of that lower balcony rail happened to be 10 feet. The students would play on teams to try to get the ball into their team’s basket.   A person was stationed at each end of the balcony to retrieve the ball from the basket and put it back into play.

The first game ever played between students was a complete brawl.

“The boys began tackling, kicking and punching in the crunches, they ended up in a free for all in the middle of the gym floor before I could pull them apart,” Naismith said during a January 1939 radio program on WOR in New York City called We the People, his only known recording. “One boy was knocked out. Several of them had black eyes and one had a dislocated shoulder.” Naismith said. “After that first match, I was afraid they'd kill each other, but they kept nagging me to let them play again so I made up some more rules.”

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Original rules of the game

Naismith didn’t create all of the rules at once, but continued to modify them into what are now known as the original 13 rules . Some are still part of the modern game today.   Naismith’s original rules of the game sold at auction in 2010 for $4.3 million.

In the original rules: The ball could be thrown in any direction with one or both hands, never a fist.   A player could not run with the ball but had to throw it from the spot where it was caught. Players were not allowed to push, trip or strike their opponents. The first infringement was considered a foul. A second foul would disqualify a player until the next goal was made. But if there was evidence that a player intended to injure an opponent, the player would be disqualified for the whole game.

Umpires served as judges for the game, made note of fouls and had the power to disqualify players. They decided when the ball was in bounds, to which side it belonged, and managed the time. Umpires decided when a goal had been made and kept track of the goals.

If a team made three consecutive fouls, the opposing team would be allowed a goal.

A goal was made when the ball was thrown or batted from the grounds into the basket and stayed there. If the ball rested on the edges, and the opponent moved the basket, it would count as a goal. When the ball went out of bounds, it was thrown into the field of play by the person first touching it. The person throwing the ball was allowed five seconds; if he held it longer, the ball would go to the opponent. In case of a dispute, an umpire would throw the ball straight into the field. If any side persisted in delaying the game, the umpire would call a foul on that side.

The length of a game was two 15-minute halves, with five minutes' rest between.   The team making the most goals within the allotted time was declared the winner. If a game was tied, it could be continued until another goal was made.

First public games

The first public game of basketball was played in a YMCA gymnasium and was recorded by the Springfield Republican on March 12th, 1892. The instructors played against the students. Around 200 spectators attended to discover this new sport they had never heard of or seen before. In the story published by the Republican, the teachers were credited with “agility” but the student’s “science” is what led them to defeat the teachers 5-1.

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Within weeks the sport’s popularity grew rapidly. Students attending other schools introduced the game at their own YMCAs. The original rules were printed in a college magazine, which was mailed to YMCAs across the country. With the colleges’ well-represented international student body the sport also was introduced to many foreign nations. High schools began to introduce the new game, and by 1905, basketball was officially recognized as a permanent winter sport.

The first intercollegiate basketball game between two schools is disputed, according to the NCAA. In 1893, two school newspaper articles were published chronicling separate recordings of collegiate basketball games facing an opposing college team.

In 1892, less than a year after Naismith created the sport, Smith College gymnastics instructor Senda Berenson, introduced the game to women’s athletics. The first recorded intercollegiate game between women took place between Stanford University and University of California at Berkeley in 1896.

With the sport’s growth in popularity, it gained notice from the International Olympic Committee and was introduced at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis as a demonstration event. It wasn’t until 1936 that basketball was recognized as a medal event. Women’s basketball wasn’t included as an Olympic medal event until the 1976 Montreal games. ( Wheelchair basketball in Cambodia changed these women's lives. )

As the sport continued its rapid spread, professional leagues began to form across the United States. Basketball fans cheered on their new hometown teams. The first professional league was the National Basketball League (NBL) formed in 1898, comprised of six teams in the northeast. The league only lasted about five years. After it dissolved in 1904, the league would be reintroduced 33 years later in 1937 with an entirely new support system, with Goodyear, Firestone, and General Electric corporations as the league owners, and 13 teams.

While professional sports leagues gained nationwide attention, college basketball was also a major fixture. The first NCAA tournament, which included eight teams, was held in 1939 at Northwestern University.   The first collegiate basketball national champion was the University of Oregon. The team defeated Ohio State University.

Like most of the United States in the early to mid 1900s, basketball was segregated. The sport wouldn’t be integrated until 1950 when Chuck Cooper was drafted by the Boston Celtics. Prior to Cooper being drafted there were groups of black teams across the country, commonly known as “the black fives”, which referred to the five starting players on a basketball team.   All-black teams were often referred to as colored quints or Negro cagers.   The teams flourished in New York City, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Chicago, and in other cities with substantial African American populations. They were amateur, semi-professional, and professional.

Of the more than 1,000 collegiate basketball teams across all divisions of the NCAA, 68 teams play in the annual March Madness tournament. The best college teams from each conference around the country compete for a place in the Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four and, ultimately,   the national championship. Though basketball might not be played the same way as it was when Naismith invented it—peach baskets have been replaced with nets, metal hoops and plexiglass blackboards—its evolution proves that the game has transcended a century.

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There is always history surrounding us. In a city like Moscow, this can seem overwhelmingly apparent. Moscow has many imposing buildings from many eras – some are immediately recognizable and others only invite wonder as to what stories lay behind their beauty or grime.

Lubyanka is the name commonly used to refer to the building that has historically housed the security services of the USSR and modern Russia, from the Cheka to the KGB to the FSB. The name has also, for a much longer history, been applied to the adjacent square and surounding neighborhood.

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The building now known as Lubyanka was originally several buildings.

The two largest were originally designed by Alexander Ivanov and were separated by a street. The largest of these two was built in 1898 and the smaller in 1902 by the All-Russia Insurance Company. Insurance and banking were rapidly growing and profitable industries at that time. Insurance companies would often invest their substantial cash holdings in real estate. Thus, most of the buildings were built as residential and the space was rented for profit.

Perhaps ironically, the original, much more ornate façade of the main building included two female figures representing Justice and Solace.

The buildings were seized following the 1917 revolution and became the headquarters for the secret police – the Cheka at the time, though it has served in the same role for the various iterations of the Soviet, and now Russian, state security services – from the OGPU and NKVD, the KGB, and now the FSB.

Lubyanka prison was established in 1920 inside a two story structure adjacent to the main buildings. It had originally been a hotel built, again, by the All-Russia Insurance Company. It was soon expanded to six floors. Jokes referred to it as the “tallest building in Moscow,” as one could purportedly see Siberia (and the Gulag system) from its basement, as that was the fate that awaited most that saw the inside of the prison’s walls.

In 1940, Aleksey Shchusev was commissioned to enlarge the complex to accommodate the increasing amount of staff required to handle the Great Purge. The staff had grown from 2,500 in 1928 to nearly 34,000 in 1940.

An extra floor was added, and the main building expanded horizontally, consuming and incorporating nearby buildings. This expansion was interrupted by the Nazi invasion, leaving the facade lopsided until it was completed under the orders of Yuri Andropov in the 1980s.

The building now contains FSB headquarters, a group of holding cells, the headquarters of the Border Guard Service, and two museums: one devoted to the KGB/FSB and one dedicated to the old prison (neither is actually open to the public).

The Museums Inside the Lubyanka Building

The museums offer regularly updated exhibits, both historical and modern. The Museum of the KGB, now known as the Historical Demonstration Hall of the FSB of Russia, is located inside the Lubyanka complex, and contains four rooms and over two thousand exhibits.

Exhibits cover the history of Russian and Soviet counterintelligence, and there are documents from the times of both Peter and Catherine the Great, as well as the Napoleonic War and WWI. There are separate stands with information on events relating to mass repressions, as well as a room dedicated to WWII. The museum also includes a significant amount of technical equipment that has been used for reconnaissance and counterintelligence purposes, as well as more recent documents relating to FSB operations.

The prison museum has never been open to the public and is maintained only for FSB personnel and high-ranking government officials. The “Demonstration Hall” was opened to the public in 1989. Accessing it was still difficult, as it is located inside the FSB complex and tours were offered almost exclusively through private tour companies and only after screening potential visitors. In recent years, the tours became rarer and today this museum, too, is officially closed to outside visitors.

Lubyanka: Fountain, Statue, or Abstract Nothing?

The names were not the only thing that changed. In 1835, a fountain was installed on the square. This fountain was called Nikolsky Fountain (its name borrowed from the same gates mentioned above), and was designed by the Italian sculptor Giovanni Vitali and supplied potable water to the neighborhood.

Nikolsky Fountain is one of the oldest in Moscow, and it still stands, but no longer on Lubyanka. It was moved in the 1930s to a new location in the courtyard of Alexandrinsky Palace in Neskuchny Garden, part of the Gorky Park complex in central Moscow.

In 1958, a 15-ton iron statue of Dzerzhinsky, known as “Iron Felix” was installed in its former place on Lubyanka. This statue, in turn, was toppled in a public demonstration after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was transferred by the Russian Academy of Arts to the Muzeon, also known as Fallen Monument Park, to be joined by many other Soviet statues removed or toppled at that time.

In 2017, a general renovation of Lubyanka and the surrounding traffic patterns was announced by the city. It was debated if the fountain or even Iron Felix should be brought back. In the end, however, the space was enlarged and landscaped with flat, circular geometric shapes. The space, used and undecorated, remains largely unused.

In 2021, another effort to bring back the statue was proposed by the modern Communist Party in Moscow. The mayor initially agreed to allow the issue to be voted on in a referendum, but soon reversed his decision and killed the initiative.

The Solovetsky Stone

The Solovetsky Stone is a monument located across the street from Lubyanka Square in a separated area known as Musuem Park. It was created in commemoration of the political prisoners who were repressed under the GULAG system.

The Solovetsky Stone is a large granite block brought from the Solovetsky Islands, where the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp operated in the 1920s and 1930s as part of the GULAG system. It was officially opened on October 30, 1990.

Founding such a memorial had become a matter of public discussion a few years earlier, in the late 1980s. The Memorial Society, now a globally-respected NGO, began a petition with the goal of creating a monument of political repression in 1987, and in 1988, a Public Council for the creation of such a monument was formed. A contest was also held in 1988, wherein people could submit their monument ideas and suggest locations, but a winner for this contest was never chosen.

The specific stone idea came from a memorial created in the village of Solovetsky in 1989 by former Solovetsky prisoners, many of whom stayed there after their release, and members of the Memorial Society. Members of the Society from Arkhangelsk, St. Petersburg, and Moscow liked the idea so much that they acquired boulders to place in their own cities.

The opening of the Moscow memorial on served as a triumph not only in its own right, but also marked the first official recognition of the Day of Victims of Political Repression since that day began to be recognized by dissidents in 1974. Every year on this day, people now gather near the Solovetsky Stone to mourn. Since 2007, a practice called the ‘Return of Names’ has taken place on the 29th from 10 AM to 10 PM – people from across the city gather in a long line to take turns reading the names of Muscovites who were executed. Similar actions take place in many other cities and even other countries, on this day or the next.

The Solovetsky Stone has also become an unofficial site for civil protest, serving not only as a memorial but as a symbol for modern-day political dissonance.

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Katheryn Weaver

Katheryn Weaver is a student of rhetoric and history at the University of Texas, Austin. Her primary areas of investigation include revolution and the rhetorical justification of violence against individuals, state, and society. She is currently studying Russian as a Second Language with SRAS's Home and Abroad Scholarship.

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Alyssa Rider

Alyssa Rider, at the time she wrote from this site, was a rising senior at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, majoring in Russian Studies and International/Global Studies with a minor in History. She planned to study abroad in Dublin, Ireland, in the fall, to study Russian, as well as a few other things. While she first became interested in Russia because of the language, she also developed an interest in LGBTQ rights in Russia. She also hoped to work as a translator.

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Sophia Young and Jia Perkin scored 15 points each as Galatasaray beat Cras Basket (76-64) in a repeat of the 2009 EuroCup Women final.

After a tight first quarter which ended (19-15) in favour of Galatasaray, Galatasaray dominated the second quarter (27-10) to lead (46-25) at the interval.

Cras Basket made a fight of it during the second half of the match. Despite the efforts of Rebekkah Brunson with 17 points for the Italians, it was not enough to stop Galatasaray.

Elodie Godin scored 8 points and Kathy Wambe finished with 11 points and 5 steals for Cras Basket.

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Abdou N'Diaye, the coach from Villeneuve d’Ascq, knew about Carla Thomas because she played in the LFB with Arras during the 2007-2008 season. But he admitted that he was surprised by her three-point shooting.

She had then given the Villeneuve supporters a reminder of what she used to do in the LFB as she led her side with 26 points and 8 rebounds while she was 3-from-8 from beyond the arc.

Villeneuve did not start the match well and trailed (4-10) after only three minutes.

However they went into the lead for the first time with a trey by Elodie Bertal (14-12) with a little under five minutes played.

The advantage did not last long with Thomas equalizing on the very next play. Thomas fired in 14 points during the first quarter as Gospic won the first quarter (23-20).

Thomas opened the second quarter with a trey and Gospic moved 8 points clear seconds later with 2 points from Andja Jelavic.

Jolene Anderson started the Villeneuve revival with a shot from her spot behind the arc. The sides were soon level with 5 points coming from Bertal (30-30) with 15 minutes played.

The lead changed hands several times as the two teams traded basket for basket until Anderson broke the sequence with a pair of free-throws for the home side to lead (38-34).

Ivona Bogoje who played at Challes-les-Eaux during the first part of last season scored for the guests.

Yet 2 points for Emilie Gomis took Villeneuve into the interval leading (40-36).

After the break Lady Comfort and Ana Cata Chitiga were tasked with keeping Thomas in check while Anderson and Bertal took care of the defensive boards.

The last quarter was a lively affair with the hosts controlling the pace.

This resulted in all 10 players from Villeneuve getting onto the court as they won (73-59).

Anderson and Bertal (right) led the scoring with 18 and 15 points each. they also dominated the rebounding with 12 and 11 points respectively.

Comfort scored 10 points and took 9 rebounds and recorded 4 blocks. Cata Chitiga also scored 10 points.

In the other EuroLeague Women tie from Group B Wisla Can-Pack Krakow won on the road against last season's final four finalist Halcon Avenida (65-60).

Wisla took control of the game during the second period to lead (32-27) at the pause and stayed in front for the rest of the game. Liron Cohen with 21 points was the match winner.

In the last game in Group B, it took one shot from beyond the arc with 9 seconds left to play by Laura Macchi for Beretta-Famila Schio to snatch the victory against their hosts MiZo Pécs (58-55).

Bourges Basket were eliminated by MKB EuroLeasing in their last EuroLeague Women game in March on their home court as they were swept 2-0 in the quarter-final.

So the EuroLeague basketball negative series continues with a home defeat (53-60) to ZVVK USK Prague.

It was not a great game by either side. ZVVK made too many errors while Bourges were hesitant and out of rhythm despite leading (17-12) at the end of the first period.

This was quickly followed by back to back three-pointers by Evanthia Maltsi to put the guests into the lead (21-17).

Bourges fought back but were unable to go in front despite drawing level twice because ZVVK continued to score from behind the arc. The guests had a total of 7 three-pointers scored when they led (40-36).

The rest of the game was tactical and messy with neither side getting a run going. However three-pointers by Lindsay Whalen and Cathrine Kraayeveld, midway through the third period, gave ZVVK a 10-point advantage (48-38).

A trey from Nwal Endéné Miyem and a free-throw from Jennifer Digbeu at the end of the quarter reduced the hosts' deficit to 5 points (45-50).

The final quarter was dull and disappointing with ZVVK holding on to win (60-53).

Whalen led the scoring with 12 points. Kraayeveld (12 rebounds) scored 11 points while Eihotova and Maltsi finished on 10 points each. Sandra Le Dréan scored 4 points and had 9 rebounds.

For Bourges Emméline Ndongue led the scoring with 10 points.

MKB Euroleasing from Sopron in Hungary waited until the final quarter before blowing away their guests Good Angels Kosice (74-63).

MKB trailed (47-48) going into the final quarter but used a 10-2 run to regain control of the match (57-50) with 33 minutes played.

MKB then paced themselves for the remaining seven minutes to win (74-63). They had four players in double digits. Yet the player of the match was Candice Dupree with 24 points and 10 rebounds for Good Angels Kosice.

Rivas Ecópolis opened their EuroLeague Women season with with a comfortable home victory (85-60) against KSSSE AZS-PWSZ Gorzow from Poland.

Rivas were never in any difficulty in this match and took control of the match with a 9-0 run to lead (15-7) with 5 minutes played which they increased to 22 points (49-27) at the interval.

Clara Moreno dished out 11 assists during the first 20 minutes.

Gorzon who are unbeaten in the Polish League reduced the deficit slighting during the third period but were powerless during the final quarter.

Jelena Dubljevic finished the game as top scorer with 18 points for the hosts.

Diana Taurasi (left) has not played a game of basketball since the WNBA finals. Yet she has been in all the basketball news this week because her coach, László Rátgéber believes that she is a better player than Michael Jordon.

Anyway she made her return to competitive basketball with a bang, 27 points, 5 assists, a couple of steals and 1 block to lead Spartak Moscow Region to victory against Frisco Sika Brno (95-71).

Spartak Moscow did not have it all their way and trailed (22-23) after the first quarter. They turned things around in the second quarter and went into the locker room leading (49-38) thanks to a three-pointer from Taurasi.

Spartak Moscow controlled the pace of the game after the break to secure the victory.

Taurasi stole the show but other players from her side also made big contributions. Sylvia Fowles scored 17 points and had 10 rebounds while Anete Jekabsone-Zogota went 4-from-5 from beyond the arc to finish with 14 points. Janel McCarville contributed 12 points and captured 9 rebounds.

Linda Fröhlich fired in 20 points but ended up on the losing side.

Fenerbahce dominated their opponents from Poland, Lotus Gdynia for 27 minutes and they led by over 20 points (61-37).

Then Lotus Gdynia went to work on reducing the deficit. With 30 seconds left to play, Fenerbahce's advantage was just 4 points (71-67).

Furthermore the game was finished on the free-throw line with Nicole Powell and Penny Taylor scoring as Fenerbahce held on to win (75-67).

Tarbes got the EuroLeague Women win they wanted. But once again their fans were left on the edge of their seats as the opponents Szeviép Szeged pushed all the way.

Tarbes went into the final quarter leading (70-54). However 6 unanswered points from Vaida Sipaviciute , who played in the LFB last season with Arras, kick started the guests' fight back. Zsuzsanna Horváth then hit a trey as other players took over the offensive duties.

Emöke Föresz tied the game and then put her side in front from the free-throw line (78-77) with 2 ½ minutes left to play.

Isabelle Yacoubou-Dehoui levelled the score as she split a pair of free-throws.

The home side then had some luck when Föresz' three-point attempt fell short. Florence Lepron restored the lead for the hosts.

Still the teams were level once more with Sipaviciute scoring her 22nd point of the evening.

In this match Tarbes were just scoring 50% from the free-throw line. So it came as no surprise that Szeviép Szeged took the chance on fouling a player from Tarbes to stop the clock.

Anne Breitreiner split the pair. Afterwards Szeged had 20 seconds to win the game but messed up the last play, which allowed Tarbes to win the match (81-80).

Pauline Jannault led the scoring for Tarbes with 19 points. She went 6-of-8 from beyond the arc.

Tarbes scored a total of 13 three-pointers in the match but were 10-from-20 from the free-throw line.

UMMC Ekaterinburg 85-56 TEO Vilnius

Galatasaray 76-64 Cras Basket Taranto

Ros Casares 118-38 TTT Riga

Villeneuve d'Ascq 73-59 Gospic Croatia

Halcon Perfumerías Avenida 60-65 Wisla Can-Pack

MiZo Pécs 2010 55-59 Beretta-Famila

MKB Euroleasing Sopron 74-63 Good Angels Kosice

Bourges Basket 53-60 USK Praha

Rivas Ecópolis 85-60 KSSSE AZS-PWSZ Gorzow

Spartak Moscow Region 95-71 Frisco Sika Brno

Fenerbahce 75-67 Lotos Gdynia

Tarbes 81-80 Szeviép Szeged

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History Of Basketball

Aug 05, 2014

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History Of Basketball. Inventor Of Basketball. Dr. James Naismith was born in 1861 in Ramsay township. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith’s school days when playing a game called “duck-on-a-rock”. Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Inventor Of Basketball • Dr. James Naismith was born in 1861 in Ramsay township. • The concept of basketball was born from Naismith’s school days when playing a game called “duck-on-a-rock”. • Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. • After serving as McGill’s Athletic Director, James Naismith moved on to the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts • 1891 is when the sport of basketball was born.

Basketball Rules • Each team is only allowed 5 players on the court at one time. • If you run or walk with the ball that is called traveling. • If you travel the other team gets the ball. • If the person who has the ball steps or dribbles the ball out of bounds the ball goes to the other team.

DRIBBLING • In order to move with the ball, you must dribble it. • A dribble is the term used when you bounce the ball and walk with it without picking it up or using both hands. • If you use both hands or pick it up and dribble again, it is called a double dribble and the other team gets the ball. • A good dribble is achieved by keeping the hand on top of the ball.

SHOOTING • In order to score, the ball must go through the basket. • There are three places a person can shoot from, for different points. • If you are standing behind the three point line, and you make it, you earn three points. • All other places in front of the arc are worth two points. • The third place is from the free throw line. • If you were fouled and you are shooting free throws. • Each free throw is worth one point.

Fouls and Violations • Personal fouls include any type of illegal physical contact. • Hitting • Pushing • Slapping • Holding • Illegal pick/screen– when an offensive player is moving. When an offensive player sticks out a limb and makes physical contact with a defender in an attempt to block the path of the defender.

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