When he invented basketball in 1891 to keep his students busy in the winter, Canadian professor of physical education at Springfield College (in Massachusetts, USA) James Naismith certainly did not think the sport he had conceived would experience. such a planetary success, nor that the rules and the equipment used would change so quickly.
Because in December of that year, the educator was content to place two crates intended to contain peaches at 3.05 meters in height in a gymnasium with a basic rule: make the ball enter the baskets to score points.
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Initially, the baskets used were not yet drilled but flared.
After each successful shooting attempt, we would recover the ball using a pole before setting out again to attack the opposing field.
An obligation not so restrictive as that, the scores are not what they are today.
The first basketball game to have left a mark in the American press,
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