A Brief History Of Basketball: Americas Favorite Pastime

Basketball is considered Americas favorite pastime. Basketball has been around since the late 1800’s(“Birthplace”). It took basketball some time to get better. Dr James Naismith is the inventor of basketball(“Birthplace”). Basketball started out as simple as a trash can and a paper ball. Basketball is a helpful way to burn off calories during the football offseason(“Birthplace”). When it was founded in the winter of 1891 nobody knew how to start. Dr James Naismith was in Springfield Massachusetts, at a ymca when he founded it(“Birthplace”). The first hoops were peach baskets hung on the balcony ten feet in the air(“Birthplace”). The first ball was a brown soccer ball that later formed a basketball. The backboard was made out of straight

So Senda Berenson “The Mother Of Basketball” invented the rules for the women(“Swish”). Spalding sporting goods was the people to get Senda to write the rules for women in 1899(“Swish”). Some of Senda’s rules were players were not ale to move their feet they had to stay still, the players could only dribble a certain amount of times, a total of six players took the court for the women's rules, and the players could not pass half court(“Swish”). The women played by these rules for over sixty years. One of the most famous women players was Nera White. The women players entered the olympics in 1997 and won the gold medal. The WNBA “Women’s National Basketball Association” was founded in 1997(“Swish”). There are thirty teams in the NBA each divided in conferences. The Western conference division are the pacific division, and the Southwest division. The Eastern conference divisions are the Atlantic division, the Central division, and the Southwest division. The thirty NBA teams are the Denver Nuggets, the Minnesota Timberwolves, Oklahoma City Thunder, Portland Trail Blazers, the Utah Jazz, the Golden State Warriors, the Los Angelas Clippers, the Los Angelas Lakers, The Phoenix Suns, the Sacramento Kings, the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets, Memphis Grizzlies, New Orleans Pelicans, and the San Antonio Spurs In the Western division. The Eastern conference teams are the Boston Celtics, the Brooklyn Nets, New York Knicks, the Philadelphia seventy sixers, the Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Detroit Pistons, the Indiana Pacers, the Milwaukee Bucks, the Atlanta Hawks, Charlotte Hornets, the Miami Heat, the Orlando Magic, and the Washington