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World Basketball Day has been celebrated since 2023. This day is celebrated on 21 December because on that day in 1891, the sport was played for the first time at the YMCA International Training ...

Basketball was invented in 1891… using a soccer ball. The first games were very slow.  Each time someone scored, someone had to climb a ladder to retrieve the ball because the baskets had no holes.

It certainly does not roll off the tongue, never mind dribble, but the sport we know today as ‘hoops’ was nearly saddled with the cumbersome, if honourable, moniker of ‘Naismith-ball.’ ...

PITTSBURGH, June 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create a piece of sporting equipment to help improve the quality of a basketball player's skills," said an inventor, from Burleson, Texas, "so I ...